On behalf of everyone here at Civitas, I want to thank all our readers for making this such a great year for Red Clay Citizen and for Civitas. This month we broke another record for unique visitors, and we hope to continue the trend going into 2008. In usual New Year’s Eve fashion, here is [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2007
- Dec28
Flexible Pay for Bureaucrats
Interesting idea from Singapore: make government more flexible with wages, pay, and performance. (I’d add, of course, cost-cutting incentives.)-Max Borders
- Dec28
Billionaires for Big Government
Soros and other guilt-ridden ex-hedge-fund speculators are putting big bucks behind their favorite big government candidates. (More here.)This is about corporate interests backing horses as much as ideology. Expect no less from the likes of Z. Smith Reynolds and the Fletcher Foundation here in North Carolina. What a titanic war. What a titanic waste of [...]
- Dec28
We’re Being Overtreated
Moral hazard and overconsumption are huge problems in healthcare. Don’t believe it? Here’s your New Year’s book — NYTimes calls it the best economics book of 2007. Yes the NYTimes.
- Dec28
Boudreaux on Today’s Krugmania
I’m starting to think that Paul Krugman is so enamored with being a darling of the left, that he has forgotten – or perhaps abandoned – even the fundamentals (law of comparative advantage). Boudreaux pits him against himself again: Paul Krugman worries that, although trade between high-wage countries is mutually beneficial, "trade between countries at [...]
- Dec27
Do It For The Children!
What is wrong with all you North Carolinians? Do you not know there are needy children out there in our state depending on you to buy lottery tickets so they can have Pre-K, scholarships and school buildings? According to this article, the Lottery folks are begging people to buy tickets. They are even dispatching sales [...]
- Dec26
Warming Back Up
As the New Year approaches, RCC will be warming back up. But expect only light posting. Till things are back in full swing, try random tidbits: Arnold Kling on his version of global warming skepticism. Tyler Cowen on taking Ron Paul seriously. Ryan Beckwith on more Randy Parton schlock (and Big gubment Republican McCrory and [...]
- Dec24
Climate Change: What’s Wrong with the Sims?
OK, so they (IPCC modelers) tell us the earth’s "fever" (average global tempurature) is going to keep going up. But it’s not. And it hasn’t since 2001. What gives?-Max Borders
- Dec22
Healthcare: (Individual) Insurance market not as bad as reported
From Grace Marie Turner: AHIP … released a survey yesterday of the individual health insurance market, showing that it is healthier than commonly believed. Yes, people can have trouble buying coverage, especially if they have pre-existing conditions, but fewer than the media would have us believe. And these more difficult cases are the ones that [...]