Marketplace Economics
Beth Skinner
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The local news media continue to announce how much the whole parade business cost the city. I can't help but think of the MasterCard television commercial - Police protection: $100,000; Sheriff's deputies working overtime: 27; Barricades: $15,000. Protecting the 1st Amendment: priceless.
You could be sitting at home enjoying a nice cold beer on the deck or watching your kid play soccer but you aren't because you're stuck in construction traffic again. Or you've hit a pothole, knocked your car out of alignment and have to shell out money for a mechanic again. ...
Of pet parents and soda fountains
The city of Boulder recently passed a resolution that pet moms and dads will no longer be referred to as pet "owners" but pet guardians Their hope is that when people begin to call themselves g - u - a - r - d - i - a - n - ...
As I watched the Elian Gonzalez kidnapping story replay itself on TV I couldn't decide what made me want to throw up more - thinking about how the President and the Attorney General continuously abuse their power or the attitude of the American public.
That’s like saying the 12 million immigrants who came through Ellis Island in the early 1900s did so just to get a peek at the Statue of Liberty.
The lighter side of economics: A book review of Eat The Rich
Any book that starts out with, "I had one fundamental question about economics: why do some places prosper and thrive while others just suck?" has got to be good.
There are obviously many different examples I could name where Americans want the government to intervene and help them along, but one issue in particular that strikes my fancy is firearms.
Are you an independent business owner? Tired of having to lower your prices, provide superior customer service and guaranteed satisfaction? Are you just tired of competition in general? Then consider this - the Boulder Independent Business Alliance proposed an ordinance recently known as the Community Vitality Act (CVA).
Cathy Young looks at dozens and dozens of feminist and left-thinking theories with a critical eye and analyzes each one for accuracy, content and believability.
Recently, someone I know, as she was discussing free markets, nuclear weapons and the Ten Commandments, stated that ...But more subtle is our 'free market' economy that has its own ways of killing-- of enslaving and de-humanizing. How many people and cultures have died in the name of tea, tobacco and ...