Thomas Sowell explains how liberal pacifism causes wars

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by Jim Rose in economics

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Thomas Sowell

I just finished reading Thomas Sowell’s “Intellectuals and Society” and I really recommend it. I mean – this is the book of the year from 2010. If you have no interest at all in economics and politics, you should definitely buy this book and read it. If you have never read anything about conservative economics and policy, then this is the place to start. It covers a little bit of economics, a little bit of jurisprudence, a little bit of education, a little bit of foreign policy… you name it – it’s in there. And in plain English. Thomas Sowell is my favorite economist, and the economist favored most by all conservatives. I own about a DOZEN of his books. He’s that good.

I wanted to talk to you about what was in chapter 7 “Intellectuals and War” and chapter 8 “Intellectuals and War: Repeating History”…

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New study: a good credit score is a key performance indicator for marriage success

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by Jim Rose in economics

Wintery Knight's avatarWINTERY KNIGHT

Financial responsibility is a key performance indicator for marriage success Financial responsibility is a key performance indicator for marriage success

Story from the leftist Washington Post.

Excerpt:

When people are looking for a significant other, they often try to find someone whose values, education, earnings, hobbies and even height match their own. But new research suggests there’s one promising measure for finding a committed partner that most daters overlook — credit scores.

A credit score is a number that is supposed to reflect the risk of lending money to someone, based mostly on their past history of borrowing, repaying and defaulting on debt. Banks have long used credit scores to evaluate customers, but these days potential employers, landlords, insurance companies, cellphone companies and many other businesses do, too.

A new working paper from the Federal Reserve Board that looks at what role credit scores play in committed relationships suggests that daters might want to start using the metric as well. The researchers found that credit scores…

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The gender commuting gap between mothers and fathers

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by Jim Rose in discrimination, economics of love and marriage, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, transport economics Tags: , , , , ,

The first three bars in each cluster of bars are for men. in almost all countries mothers with dependent children spend less time commuting than childless women. This might suggest that working mothers have found workplaces closer to home than women without children. The gender gap in commuting where it is present in the country is larger than the gap between mothers and other women in their commuting time.

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Source: OECD Family Database – OECD, Table LMF2.6.A.

What can economists tell you

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Late switchers alert – when did Obama start supporting gay marriage

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Should female athletes be paid the same? A labour theory of value approach

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Source: “Equal Wage for Equal Work”?

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Down and out in America after 20 years of welfare reform

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Nanny state protects us from late-night fast food

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#EpiPen has two rival suppliers

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University of Chicago Schools Safe Spacers

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#OTD Sir Donald Bradman was born

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Kitty kisses

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Wind Industry Claims Another Ag-Pilot: Minnesota Crop-Duster Killed in Action

27 Aug 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics

stopthesethings's avatarSTOP THESE THINGS

plane and turbines

Is there anything to say in favour of these things?

Not only insanely expensive and utterly pointless at every level, they pose a mortal danger to both man and beast.

In the 20 years or so since they’ve spun into heavily subsidised ‘action’, the wind industry’s has managed to clock up a fairly sizeable death count: running at over 160 (so far), which includes 4 killed (pilot and passengers) when a light plane slammed into a turbine in foggy conditions in South Dakota in April 2014.

Ag Pilots – the dare-devils that duck and weave across paddocks to spray crops – are an essential part of modern agriculture. They run plenty of necessary risks, but that posed by an intermittent, heavily subsidised, weather dependent power source is wholly unnecessary; and shouldn’t be one of them.

The risks posed don’t just include 290 tonne, 160m high whirling wonders, but also…

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Oregon State Fair To Host Marijuana Exhibit: Just As It Does For Cattle And Pumpkins

27 Aug 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics

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By Darren Smith, Weekend Contributor.

Marijuana LeafWe are now seeing the fruition of the campaign to normalize in society state legal marijuana. We’ve discussed previously how those on probation in Washington State no longer will face prosecution for marijuana usage, and where marijuana shops and billboard advertisements are seen alongside energy drinks and beach ready bodies. Now Oregon, having recently legalized marijuana, hosts at its State Fair exhibitions and competitions featuring legal weed. Let the Fairijuana begin!

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George Costanza explains the political spectrum

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