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Meijer: Lower (than Wal*Mart’s) Prices

November 20, 2006

In response to Wal-Mart’s plans to sell 42-inch flat-panel TVs for $1,200, I applauded the discount retailer for making the world a more affordable, if not better place.
I have no idea whether Meijer’s post-Thanksgiving doorbuster (selling 42-inch TVs for $499) is a response to Wal-Mart’s always low prices; but it doesn’t really matter.
How anyone, […]

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Spare the Rod — Punish the Parents?

November 20, 2006

That’s some battle-cry.
The Detroit Free Press reports that the city of Royal Oak (MI) is “expected to pass an ordinance tonight that would give police the power to ticket parents whose children misbehave,” and that the ordinance would cover everything from truancy to curfew violations to drug-crimes.
I fail to see how this […]

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Capitalism & Friedman

November 16, 2006

One of the greatest economists of the latter half of the 20th Century has passed.
Milton Friedman will be remembered among free-market, small-government advocates, always and everywhere. I have in mind a specific quote which, if memory serves me right, is from Friedman, but perusing the pages of Capitalism & Freedom has not helped me […]

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no title for this rambling post

November 16, 2006

I have been reading alot for school lately - finishing a few books here & there including Skousen’s Structure of Production and Hutt’s The Keynesian Episode and Belloc’s The Servile State. I am almost done with Mises’s Theory of Money & Credit which I was reading for “fun.”
I’ve been reading DetroitBlog lately. It […]

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