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Archive for April, 2005

Yo, it’s corrup’ where I’m from, Edmonton

Thursday, April 28th, 2005

I have to say that Cadence Weapon’s new song Oliver Square is one of the best songs ever. Maybe you have to be from Edmonton to fully understand its brilliance. Though the Pitchfork review is quite positive.

Elsewhere, Cadence’s hometown shoutouts get Simon Reynolds off his back. While most of us can’t appreciate the […]

Rachel Carson, Adam Smith. Adam Smith, Rachal Carson

Thursday, April 28th, 2005

Last weeks cover article in the Economist, on the new envoronmentalism is particularly nice.

If environmental groups continue to reject pragmatic solutions and instead drift toward Utopian (or dystopian) visions of the future, they will lose the battle of ideas. And that would be a pity, for the world would benefit from having a thoughtful green […]

Andrew Coyne on the new scandal

Thursday, April 21st, 2005

I think I’m going to be sick.

And then there’s this shocking (ie completely unshocking) allegation: The same network controlled the appointment of judges. During the 2000 elections, the party had a stable of about 20 big-time Montreal lawyers working for them for free. Or perhaps, not quite for free: Several of them were subsequently rewarded […]

Germany toys with minimum wage, wither EU?

Friday, April 15th, 2005

It was a surprise to me to learn today that Germany has no minimum wage law. In fact it’s not the only country.

In the European Union, 18 of the 25 member states, including Greece, Spain, Great Britain and France have a minimum wage. It is more often referred to in terms of a […]

Lessons on tax for everyone

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

The Economist has printed a pair of articles on the subject of flat tax, in theory and practice. This is a great companion piece to NWM’s last post on taxation where we launched off a Ted Rall catastrophe to examine the merits of a whole-scale adoption of a consumption tax.

Flat taxes are a very […]

Loan Ranger

Monday, April 11th, 2005

NWM, a few weeks ago, posted a short piece reviewing a TNR article by G. Pascal Zachary which made the liberal case for Wolfowitz as the head of the World Bank. TNR, showing why they are one of the best periodicals out there, has now printed an article by Sebastian Mallaby that contradicts many […]

Adscam and the persistence of government corruption

Wednesday, April 6th, 2005

I don’t have time to invest in a lot of analysis on Adscam. At least not as much as I’d like to. Joe Katzman has a great roundup of the issues at WoC. Though Joe is Canadian, his blog is decidedly international, and as such, he takes time to explain the details, […]