Between 1983 and 1996, at a time when chain stores like Wal-Mart increased their sales by 42 percent, he found that overall retail sales in Iowa plummeted in small towns: by 17 percent in towns with 2,500 to 5,000 people, by 30 percent in towns with 1,000 to 2,500 residents, and...
This is Gerry Fremlin. I’m in Clinton, and I was wondering if we could have lunch together sometime. I knew his home was in Clinton and I thought he had probably come home to see his parents. I think
Her mother was an activist involved in the women’s movement and marches in Iowa. By the time Eileen turned 21 (the former voting age, getting the vote to 18-year olds is a whole different blog post), she proudly voted and has voted in every election since. She is one of the most ...
1) At any given time Oil "supplied" = Oil "demanded" = Oil "produced" i.e. that we are using the economists definition of these words, understanding that there are other definitions extant in the language 2) Oil sells for a particular price at any given time. I know there are several...
opportunity. Dole seemed to have an insurmountable edge in the Republican primary polls, but he still had a rough start — he barely defeated Buchananin Iowaand then lost to himin New Hampshirebefore recovering to winmost other contests. Dole went on to lose in the general against...
Did you hear that they're putting in a Starbucks next to the Louvre in Paris? I wanted to gag when I heard, but all of that is another story for another time. As I heard someone say once in a movie, "It's your world boss. I'm just living in it." Flash mobs are hastily ...
Three years ago, I shared two videos explaining taxation and deadweight loss (i.e., why high tax burdens are bad for prosperity). Today, I have one video on another important principle of taxation. To set the stage for this discussion, here are two simpl