Government Ghanja Glut

October 16, 2004 12:46 PM by Brian Macker

When Guliani ran for mayor of New York in 1993 he mocked that the OTB, a government agency, was "the only bookie joint in New York that loses money."

The current crisis hitting the Dutch health ministry indicates that its agency is "the only ‘joint’ joint in Netherlands that loses money."

The governmental marijuana is less potent and more expensive than what can be had on the street.

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Flabber'gas'ted

October 12, 2004 6:50 PM by Brian Macker

I woke up this morning to an apparently normal universe. I saw what looked like the usual fair over at CNN, an article titled "A return to gas lines and rationing?". Upon reading it I discovered I was in an alternate universe where news articles actually contain sound economic reasoning. I haven't decided yet if I wish to get back to my own dimension.

River of de Nile on de regulation

April 5, 2004 8:48 PM by Brian Macker

Pardon my french. The governmental disinformation campaign on deregulation continues. First there was the California energy crisis and now the northeastern blackout. According to this article in Newsday the final investigative report concludes that deregulation played a role in the Aug 14th blackout. As you can surmise from the article the “deregulation” consisted of non-profit oversight, forced purchases from independent power producers, and forced access to power grids. That doesn’t sound like deregulation to me. Nobody is building transmission capacity precisely because of these regulations.

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