A Great Sentence

Arnold Kling

By Arnold Kling, Jan 25 2009

if everybody and their grandmother is lining up for a bailout, and pulling political strings ([1], [2]) to make sure they get it, I read that as prima facie evidence that the taxpayers’ interests are not being properly represented.

In my latest Forbes.com article (co-authored with my book co-author Charles Hooper), I (we) take on Naderite Sidney Wolfe's views on safe drugs and on conflicts of interest. We point out that despite Wolfe's view that consultants to drug companies should not be involved as advisers to the FDA, a study that found no bi...

Jan 25 2009

Family Economics

Why People Don't Want More Kids, and What It Means

Bryan Caplan

In my experience, virtually the only reason why people don't want more kids is that they don't feel like spending any more time on childcare. The strictly financial cost of another child almost never comes up. Granted, I greatly oversample the well-educated and the top two quintiles of the income distributi...

Jan 25 2009

Finance: stocks, options, etc.

A Great Sentence

Arnold Kling

From James Hamilton if everybody and their grandmother is lining up for a bailout, and pulling political strings ([1], [2]) to make sure they get it, I read that as prima facie evidence that the taxpayers' interests are not being properly represented.

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