There seems like a big market opportunity here. Put people to work by fishing, and sell the proceeds to China. You could do it canned, frozen and fresh. I know that when I was a kid growing up in Michigan we’d never eat carp, and considered them junk fish, though the blacks would eat them (and dogfish, too — I remember dogfish runs by the dam near our cottage on the Muskegon River, where people would just pull them out with nets and cover the banks with them). Not sure what the difference is between Asian carp and the native variety, or if it’s tastier. But the Asians definitely do know their carp (which is what koi and goldfish are).
Category Archives: Economics
Complex Societies
Why they need simple laws.
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Are regulations strangling the economy? Samuelson thinks so.
Why California Is Going Broke
Reason number 154,976: one third of all Americans on welfare live there.
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California sounds a (slight) retreat in its ongoing war against arithmetic.
The Power Of Property Rights
Pictures of East Germany, before and after the fall of the Wall.
As An Energy Secretary…
…Steven Chu is a great scientist. But there’s nothing in his experience or education that would equip him for running a federal department, or to be a competent venture capitalist with other peoples’ money, and with billions of losses to the taxpayer and energy prices going through the roof, it shows. The notion that he deserves anything short of an F is laughable.
Don’t Know Much About History
In attacking his critics as “flat earthers,” Obama screws up.
Yes, people who, unlike him, actually understand the math and physics (and business prospects) of alternative and conventional energy are “flat earthers.” Once again, the man is impervious to irony. And how insufferable this kind of thing is.
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Heh: “Obama in Tucson & today: “Make sure we talk with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds, you Flat-earthers.”
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Where Obama gets his history.
Doesn’t explain the Rutherford B. Hayes slander though. And against a man who was wounded four times freeing Obama’s ancestors. Wait, what?
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Don’t know much about energy, either. The US has sixty times as much oil as Obama claims.
It’s almost as though he just makes stuff up.
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#BarackObamasPresidentialFacts:
“Purple Hayes” was the first Jim Hendrix song about a president.
They’re hilarious. I think I’ll steal MfK’s from comments and add it to the mix.
Renting A Home
Is it about to get very expensive? Just one more catastrophic result of decades of horrible government policies.
Grad School
…and the career lies.
I think this bubble is starting to pop.
The Beatings In The Not-So-Golden State Will Continue
…until morale improves. California tax revenues have plunged. And Sacramento’s solution? To increase tax rates, of course.
But How Severe Was It?
Romney told Glenn Beck five years ago that the individual mandate was “ultimate conservatism.”