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Daily Archives: December 21, 2011

Carpe Diem

eBay Price Trends

Mark J. Perry | December 21, 2011, 7:47 pm

I’m not sure how new this is, but Ebay now has a “price trends” feature that allows you to track the prices of standard items over time for both completed “buy it now” purchases and “auction” sales.  The chart above … read more >

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Carpe Diem

More on Dismal Legacy of Communism in N. Korea

Mark J. Perry | December 21, 2011, 4:40 pm

The chart above shows another comparison of the economies of North and South Korea, based on data from Angus Maddison.  Between 1950 and the early 1970s, real GDP per capita in South Korea was exactly the same as in North … read more >

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Economics, Energy and the Environment

EPA’s lying figures

Kenneth P. Green | December 21, 2011, 3:55 pm

The Environmental Protection Agency has put another sparkly gift in our stockings this year, in the form of new rules to restrict the emission of mercury and other toxic substances from power plants. The ruling is expected to impose annual … read more >

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Economics, Energy and the Environment

Now that’s an expensive car

Kenneth P. Green | December 21, 2011, 3:38 pm

I’ve written before about the insanity that is the GM Volt, but even I am surprised at what the good people at the Mackinac Center found out when they totalled up all the various subsidies that the federal government has … read more >

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Carpe Diem

Volt May Be Most Government-Supported Car Since the Trabant, and Average Owner Makes $170k/year

Mark J. Perry | December 21, 2011, 2:18 pm

Michigan Capitol Confidential — “Each Chevy Volt sold thus far may have as much as $250,000 in state and federal dollars in incentives behind it – a total of $3 billion altogether, according to an analysis by James Hohman, assistant … read more >

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Carpe Diem

Peaceful Costa Rica New Casualty of U.S. Drug War

Mark J. Perry | December 21, 2011, 2:00 pm

National Public Radio — “Costa Rica is Central America’s most stable democracy, a peaceful country that abolished its army in 1948 and now draws nearly a million U.S. tourists a year to its national parks and beaches. But it’s also … read more >

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Economics

How government promotes income inequality

James Pethokoukis | December 21, 2011, 11:03 am

To the extent rising incomes on Wall Street have contributed to the rise of U.S. income inequality, government played a big role by encouraging risk via a de facto policy of Too Big To Fail. A few words on this … read more >

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Politics and Public Opinion

GOP frontrunner opposes the killing of Osama bin Laden

Marc Thiessen | December 21, 2011, 10:56 am

The Iowa caucuses are less than 14 days away and three new polls show Representative Ron Paul is the new frontrunner in the Hawkeye state—leading the GOP field in Iowa by anywhere from three to six points. Should Paul come … read more >

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Foreign and Defense Policy, Subsaharan Africa

The redemption of General Butt Naked

Marc Thiessen | December 21, 2011, 9:24 am

Back when I worked on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the 1990s, we heard stories of a Liberian warlord who went by the nom de guerre “General Butt Naked.” The general led his troops—the Butt Naked Bridgades—into battle naked … read more >

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Carpe Diem

Architecture Indexes Support the Position That the Turning Point in Construction May Have Arrived

Mark J. Perry | December 21, 2011, 3:57 am

Washington, D.C.  – “Continuing the positive momentum of a nearly three point bump in October, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) reached its first positive mark since August (see red line in chart above). As a leading economic indicator of construction … read more >

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