75 Years of Housing Fascism

July 9, 2009 7:57 AM by Dale Steinreich

In terms of the unforeseeable and destructive effects of government regulation, it's difficult to find a better example of a time bomb: it was set in 1934 to explode in $147 billion (about $239 billion in 2008 dollars) of damage 55 years later.[8] Then, to top it all off, the free market received the blame! While the establishment Left is certainly horrible on the issue of housing, the Right has its own shameful legacy as well. FULL ARTICLE

Starbucks and the Economics of the "Short" Cappuccino

January 10, 2006 5:34 PM by Dale Steinreich

Slate on how to get a supposedly better cup of coffee for a lower price at Starbucks. Here.

Economics: Sexiest Trade Alive

December 19, 2005 11:51 AM by Dale Steinreich

declares Newsweek.

It's a mystery—even to the number crunchers. "We'd like to say it's because economics is so interesting and because economists are so handsome and intelligent," says John Siegfried, an econ professor at Vanderbilt University. "But there's no good answer."

Sure, Siegfried. Of course the Austrian School is by far the sexiest because we don't bore the gals with dry discussions about econometrics.