Shall Not Be Questioned » Economics

Nothing on topic I can think of. But this story about blue collar wages rising faster than college grad wages is interesting. The old I get the more I think the economy is almost entirely psychol...

https://www.pagunblog.com/2019/02/04/i-got-nuthin/

One area where I’ve always departed with libertarian market purists is on anti-trust, but I could never really articulate it well until now: One place where I break with the Borkian consensus o...

https://www.pagunblog.com/2017/07/17/i-guess-it-took-modern-day-robber-barons-to-realize-this/

Mississippi & Louisiana are about to kick off their tax-free weekends on guns, ammunition, and other sporting equipment. Some groups have found that these sales tax holidays (on all items, not ju...

https://www.pagunblog.com/2014/09/03/tax-free-weekends-on-guns/

Gun news is pretty thin on the ground today. Via Instapundit, I noticed this article about how there is no real shortage of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) workers: The tr...

https://www.pagunblog.com/2014/03/20/myth-of-stem-shortage/

It looks like Pennsylvania’s ban on Sunday hunting is going to be challenged in the courts since the legislature refuses to act. The suit will apparently be brought on rather interesting ground...

https://www.pagunblog.com/2013/06/11/big-push-for-hunting-in-pennsylvania/

NRA just helped deal a one-two economic punch to anti-gunners today. We’re talking millions of dollars worth of a punch. In case you’ve forgotten the story, Reed Exhibitions sponsored the Eas...

https://www.pagunblog.com/2013/04/16/anti-gunners-lose-more-money/

Tam offers an important lesson: Meanwhile, I will point out a basic bit of Capitalism 101: If Seller Sam asks $100 for a 50rd box of Remchester .22LR, and Buyer Bob gives him $100 for it,  the...

https://www.pagunblog.com/2013/01/15/capitalism/

I tend to agree with Glenn Reynolds that it’s pretty much economics. For me, the economics are being quite late settling down, and no longer having the spare income to save for a kid’s colleg...

https://www.pagunblog.com/2012/12/11/why-people-arent-having-kids/

Clayton Cramer notes: Which means a lot of Obama voters — people that bought into Obama’s “soak the rich” rhetoric — who have been able to deduct the first $2,500 of student loan intere...

https://www.pagunblog.com/2012/11/24/screwed-again-2/

One of the running jokes I’ve always heard about the left is that when they see one of their favorite programs utterly and completely fails to fix whatever problem they identified, they say tha...

https://www.pagunblog.com/2012/11/15/it-failed-to-meet-our-goals-so-lets-do-it-again/