Instapundit » Blog Archive » HERE’S MORE ON THAT Amazon vs. MacMillan Kindle-book Price Dispute. “Macmillan CEO John Sargent sai…
ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Eric Klien writes: “Amazon is being a Walmart-type bully and trying to get the best possible deals for its customers.”
Jebus. Is this supposed to be a bad thing? The semantic load […]

posted by Bill Quick to Dumbasses, Free Market, Capitalism | 5 comments, no incoming links

Homeowner’s behavior a mortgage factor
A mortgage borrower’s personal traits and behaviors, not just income or credit scores, affect the ability to repay the mortgage, U.S. researchers suggest.
Well, duh.
But I’m sure that a brief look at the numbers will show disparate results when grouped by race, sex, national original, or other factors. The perpetually aggrieved will […]

posted by SteveF to Housing, Culture, Real Estate, Nanny State, Free Market | 1 comment, no incoming links

May not necessarily be an oncoming train. It is often repeated here that if the government would just stay out of our lives we would be alright.
It is here—at the grassroots level—that you can best glimpse the essential sources of American resiliency. American society draws most of its adaptive power not from its elite precincts […]

posted by drach to Economy, Culture, Free Market, Capitalism | No comments, no incoming links

Today’s WSJ quotes the President: “Never again will the American taxpayer be held hostage by a bank that it too big to fail.”
In one remark, Obama finally reveals himself incontrovertibly to be a liar or a fool, or both.
Surely no can can be such a naif as to believe that they can legislate such […]

posted by nemo paradise to Dumbasses, Government, Markets, Statists, Propaganda, Democrats, Liberal Fascism, Finance, History, Bullshit, Nanny State, Horseshit, Weirdness, Free Market, Terrorism, Capitalism, Incompetence, Junk Law, Lies and Liars, Tyranny, Whackjobs and Lunatics | 20 comments, no incoming links

I have managed, through various means and for several reasons, to work up a visit of several days’ duration to the SHOT Show, which, as most hereabouts will know, is the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trades Show, being held this year in Las Vegas, NV, aka Disneyland For Adults.
Reasons:
1) I’ve been to Las Vegas, The […]

posted by J.S. Bridges to Bloggery, Culture, Free Market, Firearms, Capitalism, Shopping | 2 comments, no incoming links

At approximately $1,500 for one ounce, I do not think I would be tasting this anytime soon.

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I have been waiting for this since I was about 12 years old, it may finally come to pass in my lifetime.
This is bigger than space tourism,” added Landeene. “It is about the industrialization of space through development of unique and innovative ways to access space.”
Landeene’s bottom line for next week’s Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo rollout: […]

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TaxProf Blog: 2010 State Business Tax Climate Index
2010 State Business Tax Climate Index
The Tax Foundation has published its 2010 State Business Tax Climate Index, which ranks the fifty states according to five indices: corporate tax, individual income tax, sales tax, unemployment insurance tax, and property tax. Here are the ten states with the best and […]

posted by Bill Quick to Economy, Statists, Leftists, Socialism, Free Market | 1 comment, no incoming links

From Reuters and AP (no link to the litigious dingleberries) stories, we see
The wild swings in oil prices have pushed the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to consider setting position limits for crude and other finite commodities.
(Reuters)
They’re going to limit trade because they don’t like what happens in the marketplace. How anti-free market.
In truth, I […]

posted by SteveF to Economy, Energy, Free Market | 6 comments, no incoming links

US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive - Telegraph
But Mr Kildee, who has lived there nearly all his life, said he had first to overcome a deeply ingrained American cultural mindset that “big is good” and that cities should sprawl – Flint covers 34 square miles.
He said: “The obsession with growth […]

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Whither GM? - The Atlantic Business Channel
As Mark notes, the government’s plan largely seems to consist of pointing out that Toyota is more profitable than GM, so GM should be more like them. The details, like how GM is going to handle those infamous legacy costs, are not present.
To be sure, many of them […]

posted by Bill Quick to Socialism, Finance, Free Market | 3 comments, no incoming links

Chavez orders army to seize Venezuela rice mills
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Saturday sent troops to temporarily take over rice processing plants in the South American nation, his toughest move against industry since a referendum win this month. … Chavez accused the companies of disrupting the supply chain by refusing to produce rice at prices […]

posted by SteveF to Economy, Communism, Assholes, Free Market | 2 comments, 1 incoming link

Pajamas Media » Yes, John Edwards, There Are Indeed ‘Two Americas’
And after all, whether you believe the stimulus was an abysmal display of pork barrel, business-as-usual politics and non-transparency, or a bold first move by the new president, either argument will be moot if the stock market slides another 20% or unemployment hits double digits. […]

posted by Bill Quick to Economy, Dumbasses, Leftists, Liberal Fascism, Socialism, Finance, Free Market, Capitalism | 1 comment, no incoming links

Reader “jack” has tried to make a big deal of the fact that I did not start out as a libertarian conservative, that he has been a conservative far longer than I, and therefore, my calls for a rigid and principled opposition to liberalism whether on the left or in the GOP/conservative community is neither […]

posted by Bill Quick to Conservatives, Free Market | 1 comment, no incoming links

In this post we learn that for 188B worth of construction projects there will be an added cost due to Davis-Bacon of about 17B, this is more than likely true and I will not dispute it.
What I will dispute is that it is not for the obvious reason of higher pay for the actual construction […]

posted by drach to Government, Free Market, Unions | 2 comments, no incoming links

Protesters label Redford an enemy of the poor - Salt Lake Tribune
So say some East Coast ministers and conservative activists, who took to the streets in front of a downtown Salt Lake City theater on the eve of Robert Redford’s Sundance Film Festival to accuse the actor of holding down low-income Americans with his opposition […]

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Reading through this item, if you were inclined to be kinda open-minded about other cultures - and after you got through mumbling to yourself/shaking your head/being annoyed - you might be willing to just shrug it off the way the Police Chief does:
 Deal to sell daughter for beer, cash part of Mexican culture
…”It’s kind of […]

posted by J.S. Bridges to Immigration, Dumbasses, Law, Culture, Free Market | 4 comments, no incoming links

Dear Auto Industry… | All American Blogger
Politicians and Management of the Big 3 are both infected with the same entitlement mentality that has spread like cancerous germs in UAW halls for the last countless decades, and whose plague is now sweeping this nation, awaiting
our new “messiah”, Pres-elect Obama, to wave his magic wand and make […]

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As usual the fear mongers are more worried about an accidental discovery that will kill us all than wonder at the sheer desire of people to advance their own and humanities’ knowledge.
But critics of the movement worry that these amateurs could one day unleash an environmental or medical disaster. Defenders say the future Bill Gates […]

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Hit & Run > Even Easier Money on the Way - Reason Magazine
“My reading of current conditions is that bank lending is constrained more now by the supply of creditworthy borrowers than by the supply of bank capital,” [Richmond Fed head Jeffrey] Lacker said in his [November 19] speech at the Cato Institute in Washington.
What? […]

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Pajamas Media » Myths of Organized Labor
In 1914, Ford shocked the world, announcing a wage increase from $2.34 to $5.00 per day.
…The $5 wage stabilized Ford’s workforce. What’s not widely known is that at the same time Ford also shortened the workday. An eight hour day meant the plants could run three shifts, 24 hours […]

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Cold Fury » Common thread
In which Mike Hendrix discovers the greatest hamburger PR campaign ever.

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Nothing that has not been said here repeatedly but this rant is coming at us from outside our borders.
Never was there a better time for openly authoritarian regulatory statists to be in power, right when the global economy is on the edge of an abyss. There will be no economic growth to mask the expansion […]

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Congress gets videotaped testimony from man who leaked secret info about overseas tax cheats
A man wanted by Liechtenstein for leaking secret banking information that identified millionaire tax cheats across Europe and the United States has described to congressional investigators how money was concealed.
That’s bad. Taking as a given that Washington brain trusts and lobbyists can’t […]

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knoxnews.com | Because I said so
Bailout may not be the right answer for our auto industry. But fair discussion of the issue is impossible when the real motivation for some legislators is not what’s best for the American economy, but their not-so-secret desire to kill off the American labor movement. Union leaders should be open […]

posted by Bill Quick to Economy, Dumbasses, Free Market | 6 comments, no incoming links