Marginal Revolution: One of America’s biggest “export” industries is declining
It’s good to see that economists are finally considering the gravity of some of the ways that America has dealt with terrorism. A 28% decline in international student applications to U.S. may not seem very important in the short run, as long as university cash [...]

Posted on September 9th, 2004 by Lee
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The talking heads have been going crazy over the last few days proclaiming the imminent doom of the Kerry candidacy. I’m worried about his path, but far from convinced the he’s out of the picture. More importantly, though, I want to know why the perception that the GOP convention was more successful is [...]

Posted on September 8th, 2004 by Lee
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Today I was at my grandfather’s 75th birthday party. It was fun, I got to see a lot of relatives I haven’t seen in a long time, etc. But that wasn’t really what interested me today. While talking to my cousin, who recently finished his job training with the National Guard, I [...]

Posted on September 5th, 2004 by Lee
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We live in a world with property and inheritance taxes. To most of us, it doesn’t seem strange to pay taxes on the value of our property. But for much of history, that was completely unheard of. Taxes were on imports and exports only (since they were so much easier to measure). [...]

Posted on July 14th, 2004 by Lee
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So, as we all know by now, and as many of us anticipated, John Kerry has chosen John Edwards as his running mate. I’ll skip all the trite truisms about how this’ll bring balance to his campaign, or how it shifts the battleground states to the South, or how people may think Edwards is [...]

Posted on July 7th, 2004 by Lee
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