Much of the country is angry these days. Millions of voters appear poised to throw all incumbents out of office for sundry misdeeds. Yet, we don’t talk a lot about the sources of this anger, the core of which antedates…
Using laws one opposes is both fair and rational
Some have criticized Minnesota Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer for accepting $511,000 in public campaign funds. But those who condemn him on this point are engaging in ‘mere cant.’ So are critics of the Wisconsin candidate whose business got a…
Arrogance about financial fix is a danger
Here in the United States we tend to think we are a little smarter than everyone else in the world. That’s not unusual; so do people in China, Germany, France, Japan and many other nations. So it is not necessarily…
Cook’s crime hurt victims more than it pleased him
The sentencing this week of Apple Valley Ponzi artist Trevor Cook got me thinking about the economics of crime and how scams like his make a ‘zero-sum game’ look like a good deal. Crime makes society worse off. This may…