Nanny Vending
This Nanny Report came from alert Swcamborne reader Stephanie M. It seems that San Francisco has banned regular sodas...
Category: Politics
The US House of Lords
A few months ago my friend Scott S. made a claim that 40 Senators represent less than 10% of the US population but...
Avoiding Moral Hazard
Moral hazard occurs when someone insulated from risk behaves differently than they would behave if they were fully...
How Much You Owe
This morning as a Taxpayer your share of the national debt is $118,598. By the time you read this it will have...
“It’s brutally unfair. It’s wrong.”
I agree with what President Obama said in his Louisiana speech on Friday June 4th: "It’s brutally unfair. It’s...
Nanny State Alert
California is talking about banning trans fats in foods served in Restaurants. I smell Nanny State. A city in...
Costa Rican Entrepreneurs
In the 1990's I heard an economist say that "in the future countries will compete based on how well they treat people,...
Democrats and Republicans
I spent a bit of time at airports getting home from Utila. On one leg of the flight my friend Henry L. talked himself...
A Conflict of Interests
The US Government, which is the majority shareholder of General Motors, is also the arbiter of automobile safety in the...
William Walker
This is a story that they don't teach to school children in the USA. But they do teach it in Costa Rica. I think it...
