Economics

Super Duper Wal-Mart

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

I overheard two kids talking the other day. One said: “What’s Target?”
The other said: “It’s good. It’s a lot like Wal-Mart, except it’s not Super.”
Obviously, then, Wal-Mart has at last got a few sensible defenders out there — sensible, I say, because Wal-Mart is a great American institution that harkens back to our finest traditions: [...]

The Redheaded Slut of Political Theory

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

Now that the people of these United States have proven beyond all reasonable doubt that, in fact, empty rhetoric can completely control their minds, it seems as good a time as any to lay out, in very fundamental terminology, what the science of economics actually is — all the more so since Barack Obama, like [...]