Archive for April 15th, 2009
Consumer and tourist spending
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009One of the many fallacies I hear people on TV and radio repeat is that anything that increases consumer spending should be lauded because it's good for the economy. Tourism spending, sports-event-related spending, and the like are presented as being healthy and a great boon to the host city or ...
Cost of freedom at all-time high
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009My Onion page-a-day calendar contained this news-in-brief article a couple days ago: WASHINGTON, DC—According to a report released Monday, the cost of American freedom has soared from its previous 1779 high of bravery, sacrifice, fighting for what's right, and 25,071 human lives, up to a record bravery, sacrifice, fighting for what's ...