Economics isn’t merely a dry, boring study of money. It is, boiled down to its essence, a study of human nature: how people interact and trade with each other. Since this obviously involves money, there is no shortage of people who want some of that money for themselves, when they haven’t earned it. And the chief ways in which they take that money are to confuse people and to establish governments.
Archives: December 2007
FEMA trailer formaldehyde testing to begin
Posted: December 18, 2007 5:40 pm
More than a year after displaced victims of Hurricane Katrina first said that formaldehyde in government-issued travel trailers was making them sick, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has arranged for air quality testing to begin this week.
Ron Paul’s $6.3 million tea party
Posted: December 17, 2007 4:50 am
A blizzard which dropped eight inches of snow on Boston Sunday didn’t stop over 700 people from packing into Faneuil Hall to hear speeches about Dr. Ron Paul. And nothing could stop 61,000 supporters of Paul’s presidential campaign from dropping a record-breaking $6.3 million into his campaign coffers.
