I believe in keeping regulation in the economy to a minimum, and avoiding regulations that stifle innovation and competition. Safety and environmental regulations can and do serve a valuable purpose but far too often regulations can serve to simply crowd out competition, which can disproportionately hurt smaller competitors. A reader writes: Went to a wedding […]
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NBC’s new fairy-tale cop drama has potential, but it’s still too early to tell if it will live up to expectations. Grimm starts off with a modern day retelling of Little Red Riding Hood. As promised, it’s a cop drama sprinkled with the supernatural. All the old fairy tales that the Brothers Grimm penned centuries […]
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My favorite Pixar film – hands down – was The Incredibles, the story of a family of superheroes driven into hiding by an overly litigious society only to be brought back into the spotlight to save the world from a nerdy megalomaniac. The movie has only improved with age. Once I became a father and now that I […]
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I really do love the new Ryan Adams record, Ashes & Fire, and not just because I love ampersands. It’s a return to his best work: his country Americana roots coming back into sharp focus – thank goodness. I’m biased of course, but Ryan Adams is always at his best when he’s playing the music […]
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According to a new report out from the research firm Strategy Analytics Samsung, maker of the Galaxy line of smartphones and tablets, has passed up Apple in smartphone shipments. This is not to say that Samsung has actually sold more units than Apple – Samsung does not release its unit sales information – only that […]
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Bank of America is reconsidering its plan to charge $5 monthly debit card fees after public outrage has caused several other large banks to drop their own plans to charge similar fees. Bank of America is reconsidering its controversial move to charge monthly debit card fees after a wave of other big banks have dropped […]
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Okay, so it’s not exactly Occupy Wall Street, and the cause isn’t quite so dire as the recklessness of investment bankers gone wild or the government bailouts, but Google Reader is being cut off at the knees, and a number of its die-hard fans (including a few I know from Google Reader) have taken to […]
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Writing in The New York Times, Layna Mosley argues that free trade, in and of itself, has the power to raise labor standards across the globe thanks to the “California effect:” International trade gives producers incentives to meet the standards of their export markets. When developing nations export more to countries with better labor standards, […]
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One thing I realize as I wade deeper and deeper into the wide, wide internet is just how vast and decentralized it truly is. There are many spaces here, many niches, nooks and crannies. I have blogged for the last few years almost exclusively about politics and economics with a little culture / fantasy fiction […]
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I think I’m probably equal parts liberal and libertarian – a sort of progressive libertarian or market liberal or something of that nature. On the one hand, I tend to agree with libertarians on markets, incentives, bailouts, and any number of other economic issues. On the other hand, I tend to think that many libertarians […]
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