Adages may be old, but they still can be wise. “Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched” should be a foundation stone of good economic policy. However, financial prudence does not seem to be a virtue of baby boomers…
Why is government intervention OK in bird flu epidemic?
Flu outbreaks continue apace on U.S. turkey farms. In Minnesota alone, the infected turkey count has hit 1.5 million, with new reports coming in virtually every day. That is over 3 percent of our average annual output of some 46…
Property rights vs. harm to others
It was good timing that Rand Paul’s presidential candidacy announcement came the same week as a Ramsey County judge’s ruling that the owners of a house in a historic St. Paul neighborhood have the right to tear it down. A…
On Asia bank, heed ‘Gambler’ wisdom
The ongoing kerfluffle over the new Chinese-sponsored Asian Infrastructure Development Bank — defined by The Economist as a “World Bank” for Asia — is one of those issues that has drawn great attention from the international economic media but is…