Archive for October, 2009
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
The “cure” is worse than the disease
So now the government wants to usurp the bankruptcy laws and directly seize troubled financial institutions. As Chidem Kurdas points out in Too Big to Fail Red Herring:
Scroll back to September 2008. Lehman Brothers files for bankruptcy, the credit market seizes up and stocks tank. What difference would the proposed law make in that [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Random News by Joe White
Sunday, October 25th, 2009
No Right to Health Care Supplied by Others
No Right to Health Care Supplied by Others:
Genuine rights are negative, in the sense that they demand only that each of us refrains from harassing others. Because each unit of health care requires labor and resources for its production, no one can have a ‘right’ to health-care in the same way that she can [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Beliefs by Joe White
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
We Have Come A Long Way « ThinkMarkets
Commenting on the “pay czar”’s decree that bailout recipient CEOs must cut their pay, Mario Rizzo observes:
We Have Come A Long Way « ThinkMarkets:
I am not here concerned with whether this is a good idea but I am simply in a state of naïve wonderment that we got to the point where this is legally [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Random News by Joe White
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Indoctrinate U Screening at HCC-Northeast this Friday
I’ve been wanting to see Indoctrinate U for some time, and now I’ll get the chance: my brother is sponsoring a screening!
ACME SCREENING AT HCC NORTHEAST
Please join the ACME Film Group for a screening of the provocative film
Indoctrinate U. The screening and discussion will take place from 11:45 a.m.
to 2:00 p.m. Friday, October 23 in [...]
