Articles from June 2011

July Rice-Scott County BPOU Meeting

The Rice Scott County Republicans meeting information for July * Tuesday, July 12th, 2011, 7 p.m. * Faribault Trucker’s Inn (also known as the Double D Diner). * At 6p.m., several of us meet for dinner (on your own) prior to the meeting.  Agenda items: * Discussion and final organization details for the Rice County [...]

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What would you expect?

If you take a behavioral economic approach, your thinking begins to change to assess what human action may result from a given situation. For example, I own a Gary Fischer mountain bike that I spent a few hundred dollars on. Now, were I to ride this bike into downtown Minneapolis, lean it against the outside [...]

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ARTICLES 25 JUN 11

ECONOMICS / BUSINESS Profligate regulation is never good and in this case may be inadvertently killing people. The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.   An excellent presentation by Economist Robert Lucas, Jr. (Nobel Prize 1995), attempting to explain why we seem to be stuck in neutral coming out of recession.   GENERAL [...]

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