Category: Politics

  • Article on Cultural Property

    HistoryNet has an article on the topic of cultural property and who owns it. The article, The War Over Plunder: Who Owns Art Stolen in War?, addresses some of the same topics I addressed in my comment for the Chicago Journal of International Law at the Law School of the University of Chicago, Keeping the…

  • An Economic Record for the Ages

    When the Bank of England does anything for the first time – it’s 315 years old this year, after all – it’s worth noting.

  • 88 More Reasons…

    I am glad to live in Texas, and glad I do not live in New York.

  • EMP: Still Something to Keep You Up at Night

    In case you’ve already resumed sleeping normally after my prior post on the EMP threat, the Wall Street Journal has more to remind you of the danger.

  • $7,400,000,000,000

    That’s what the Fed is pledging to “rescue the financial system,” according to Bloomberg.com. That’s 50% of 2007 GDP, or 288% of 2007 federal tax revenues. Makes my prior post sound look like a praise of good budgeting.