- Broken windows at the ATM
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I had my own personal broken window this week. Not a big fan of obstructing progress for make-work jobs. - The Bureaucracy Event Horizon
- Government bureaucracy is the ultimate broken window.
- Going Rogue: An American Life
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Unlike politicians who have to fall back on their ancestors for middle-class anecdotes, Palin lived them. In the seventies, her father took them from rural Idaho to greater opportunities in Alaska, but it wasn’t her father who built their family business: it was Todd and Sarah. - Growing from the ruins of a rotting industry
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There’s something incredibly liberating about kicking the ass of a moribund industry. - Palin: make room for successful businesses
- Governor Palin in India says something I’ve been pushing for a long time, especially with regards to our moribund auto industry: when we reward failing companies, we are killing all of the innovative startups that would have arisen in the vacuum of their failure.
- Paul Krugman & President Obama furiously fix economy
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Improving Mexico’s economy: “Fast and Furious” gun-running plan from New York Times economist Paul Krugman. - Proposition B opponents: city salaries grow from magic beans
- Where do they think city worker salaries come from?
- Upturns with no downturns
- A pessimistic clock might be right twice a day; it might not be. It’s hard to tell when the clock doesn’t even use the same numbers we’re used to.
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- The stimulus debate revisited
- “The finance industry on the other hand was caught up in a bubble. The exit strategy was an immediate bailout, but for whom? Only for those companies that invested enough in political campaigns. The result of the bailout was another huge distortion sent to the market.”
- Against the ATM Scourge
- “Productivity is not the enemy.”
