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A Strong Case Against Bailing out Ford and GM

“Just Say No to Detroit,” by David Yermack, Wall Street Journal, 15 November 2008. (May be available for only a limited time without Wall Street Journal registration.)

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From Classical Liberalism to Libertarianism

I will give the keynote address this evening on the theme “From Classical Liberalism to Libertarianism” at the conference on “Libertarianism and Its Critics” at Chapman University, then some presentations…

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An interesting take on part of the financial crisis

From today’s New York Times, “How the Thundering Herd Faltered and Fell,” by Gretchen Morgenson. It sounds like a classic principal/agent issue of corporate governance: A native of Turkey who…

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Time Capsule

Well, I got one, as the other backup device I had for Time Machine decided it didn’t want to complete backups anymore.  Whatever. Unfortunately, I can’t get the Mac to…

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Democracy in America…in Russian

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Free Kareem

November 6 saw dignified protests and statements of support for the cause of jailed Egyptian blogger Abdelkareem Nabil Soliman in Stockholm, Paris, Rome, Washington, D.C., Berlin, San Francisco, Bucharest, London,…

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Spread the Word

Dear Friends, I urge those with blogs to consider posting the video about the financial crisis that you will find immediately below this post.  You can find the embed code…

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