Jane Chastain Let’s get down and dirty. Now don’t get excited. This column is not the least bit off-color or X-rated. I’m talking about your garbage. Do you recycle? Do you meticulously separate your cans, bottles and plastic containers from the paper and cardboard? The world is going green, but when it comes to ourContinue reading “Let’s Talk Trash”
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Picking Sides
By Marty Trillhaase JEERS … to Idaho schools Superintendent Tom Luna. Last week he persuaded the Idaho Land Board to drain an extra $22 million from an endowment reserve account to soften the budget hit on public schools. This week, he derailed pumping more money into it. At issue are the 521 cottage sites IdahoContinue reading “Picking Sides”
Seen, unseen costs of stream access
Watch News In one of the classic essays in economics, Frederic Bastiat describes how breaking a windowpane generates two types of effects: the “seen” and the “unseen.” The seen effect is the window’s repair. A repairman replaces the window and receives payment for this service. Thus, broken windows make window repairmen better off. The unseenContinue reading “Seen, unseen costs of stream access”
Your Land is My Land: Property Rights in Montana
Cost: Registrations include lunch and the all-day forum. Before February 15, registration is $15 per person and includes a complimentary copy of Property Rights: A Practical Guide to Freedom & Prosperity by Terry L. Anderson and Laura E. Huggins. After February 15, registration is $20 per person. How to: By phone: Call PERC atContinue reading “Your Land is My Land: Property Rights in Montana”
The Great Green Jobs Flimflam
By Jane Chastain Some people learn from their mistakes. It appears Barack Obama is not one of them. Immediately, after assuming the office of president of the United States, Obama began clamoring for an unprecedented $787 billion dollar stimulus package. It was necessary, he told us, in order to put Americans back to work andContinue reading “The Great Green Jobs Flimflam”
The Environment and Entrepreneurship
January 12, 2010 Public Lecture Strathmore Univeristy January 12, 2009
Not the time to cap and trade
By Jody Lipford and Bruce Yandle We were not surprised in late September 2009 when China’s president Hu Jintao announced to the United Nations Assembly that his country would not be a party to a global greenhouse gas reduction commitment. Instead of locking China into a promise that it would not keep, President Hu indicatedContinue reading “Not the time to cap and trade”
Free the Indians
By Jay Ambrose American Indians have agreed to take $3.4 billion of some $200 billion that tribes have said the federal government owes them for mismanagement of trust lands. Not as bad as it could have been when dealing with Washington bureaucrats. But there is much more to be done, such as liberating these peopleContinue reading “Free the Indians”
How Green is God?
Full Text of Speech: Morality and Capitalism Nick Schulz interviews Professor P.J. Hill Nick: “Hi I am Nick Schulz, the Editor of American.com and welcome to an episode of American conversations. Our guest today is Professor P.J. Hill. Professor Hill is a Professor of Economics at Wheaton College in Illinois. Thank you for being withContinue reading “How Green is God?”
In Memoriam: Thomas J. Graff
PERC Executive Director Terry Anderson: "On November 12, PERC and the environment lost a friend when Tom Graff, a lawyer with EDF, passed away. As he showed when we worked together at PERC conferences and briefings in Washington, D.C., Tom understood the importance of markets as a source of environmental quality. Together we wrote aboutContinue reading “In Memoriam: Thomas J. Graff”