Cyanide poisoning E. European rivers,” proclaimed the headline on a recent news story in this newspaper. Datelined Belgrade, Yugoslavia, the story told of cyanide spill at a Romanian gold mine. The poison flowed into a tributary of the Danube and…
Instead of handing out rebate, why not cut back state sales tax?
It’s budget surplus time again in Minnesota. Once more the pressing political question of the day is how best to get rid of excess money. All three parties, Reform, Democratic and Republican, favor some sort of rebate program to return…
Productivity: Often ignored, always important
Just what does productivity have to do with the price of a mocha latte or a basket of onion rings at the neighborhood diner?” The answer is: “almost everything.” Productivity is the ugly duckling of popular economics. It doesn’t get…
Looking at societal changes helps cut through rhetoric on income disparities
Why do some people enjoy much higher incomes than others? That is one of the first questions to arise when people look at income distribution statistics, such as those for the United States, that show some households earning 10 or…