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Farewell from The Country Thinker 30 Jul 2013 | 07:55 pm
As anyone who follows this blog may have noticed, I haven’t been blogging much lately. The reason is I have been weighing whether to keep this blog active as I pursue other interests. As the title sug...
How Responsible Are Lawyers and Bureaucrats for the Slow Recovery? 23 May 2013 | 10:56 pm
A study released by the Institute for Legal Reform this month shows something most of us already know: America spends more money on lawsuits than any other nation in the world. A lot more, as a matter...
The Texas Stabbing Tragedy and Knife Liability Insurance 12 Apr 2013 | 07:03 pm
Last week I discussed some of the many problems with the proposed gun liability insurance bill floating in Congress. I also asked if knife liability insurance was advisable since 14% of American homic...
Sequester Reveals Economically Inconsistent Policymaking 8 Apr 2013 | 11:33 pm
The sequester’s Chicken Littles have some explaining to do. The sequester was supposed to wreak all sorts of economic chaos from the harsh “austerity” measures as part of the bipartisan deal, but it’s...
Gun Liability Insurance: Another Bad Idea From Washington 3 Apr 2013 | 10:49 pm
Gun control advocates have wasted no time exploiting the Newtown tragedy. The most recent idea to surface has been to require gun owners to carry liability insurance for the guns they own, with the Fi...
Some Economic Implications of Same Sex Marriage 27 Mar 2013 | 09:58 pm
Today the Supreme Court will hold hearings in the second of two same sex marriage cases that have been all over the news. Yesterday’s case was Hollingsworth v. Perry (the California Proposition 8 case...
Happy Hayek Day! 25 Mar 2013 | 09:20 pm
Saturday marked the anniversary of the passing of one of the twentieth century’s greatest economists and political thinkers, Friedrich August von Hayek (8 May 1899—23 March 1992). He won the Nobel Pri...
Obama’s Energy Trust Fund: Good Idea or Bad? 23 Mar 2013 | 12:31 am
In his State of the Union address, President Obama introduced the idea of an “Energy Trust Fund,” with oil and gas royalty monies to go into a newly-created fund to finance research and development of...
Quiet Week Due to Illness 22 Mar 2013 | 04:57 pm
I want to aplogize for no new material over the last few days. I came down with a flu bug and slept (literally) for two days straight. I’m far from 100%, but have material on the way for today and tom...
America Needs (Real) Patent Reform—And Soon 18 Mar 2013 | 07:58 pm
Patent law is one of the least understood bodies of law by the public, yet has an enormous impact on our economy. Unfortunately U.S. patent law is a mess, particularly when it comes to the technology ...
