Archive for “July of 2007”

Why Greenies Should Hate Ethanol

July 31, 2007

For starters, it’s bad for the environment:
…In the long term, the Amazon Rainforest, for example, will experience vast deforestation due to Brazil’s increased sugarcane production in order to meet its ethanol export goals. This inevitably will result in the slow degradation of one of the Americas most precious and fragile ecosystems…
And it is disastrous to […]

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Moi, une anticapitaliste?

July 31, 2007

Apparently, my post about “generic” skateboard decks last week is getting a bit of attention. I do mean “a bit.” The WSJ has sent 30-some-odd visitors to my site, and this morning I received a trackback link from a blog hosted by Le Monde, a historically left-leaning French newspaper. If you can […]

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Buy American?

July 31, 2007

Always ignored in protectionist arguments is the question of how a company like Toyota, that nobody had ever heard of, run by yellow men with slanty eyes who were our mortal enemies 20 years prior - how this sort of David could’ve slain the mighty Goliath of American manufacturing. It is, in a word, […]

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Not Enough Doctors

July 30, 2007

Last week (or maybe longer ago than that), Yahoo! News reported a frightening trend in the United States - that being a shortage of doctors, specifically in rural areas. A shortage of doctors, not in Kenya, Laos, or even the U.K., although I’m sure those countries have their own problems. A large part […]

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Congress Admits: Patent Laws don’t work

July 30, 2007

Rather than the patent system being the incentive for “so much of our innovation, it has become a constraint on innovation
Of course, rather than accept defeat, your representatives would replace the current system with another layer (or three) of arbitrariness, bureaucracy, and red-tape.

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Oops.

July 30, 2007

It’s the 29th, and a new edition of the Market Anarchist blog carnival is now up, over at The Freedom to Say 2 + 2 is 4. Not quite as many entries this time around, but very strong entries. Remember to submit your blog entries or videos before the 28th for the next edition.
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Capitalism Grinds the Skateboard Industry

July 27, 2007

I thought it was odd to see a skateboarding article in the Wall Street Journal this morning. But it’s not about nollies and ollies and nose-grinds or half-cabs. It’s about capitalism ($$$):
The International Association of Skateboard Companies figures 50% to 70% of all the skateboard decks sold are blank rather than branded. […]

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