Uncooperative Radio Show Notes: Sunday
11/04/12
Devastated Rockaways residents lash out
at Bloomberg during unannounced visit
Storm-ravaged and weary Rockaways
residents cornered Mayor Bloomberg yesterday to angrily demand more
aid for their devastated neighborhood. “When are we gonna get some
help?” blasted one desperate woman, who had to be held back by the
mayor’s security detail as Bloomberg stood by with a
deer-in-the-headlights look.
Animal House: power your home with pets
How much electricity does it take to
run your home for a year? The answer depends on a number of different
things. Mostly it comes down to how many appliances and gadgets are
sapping juice from your electrical sockets.
Liberal
Senator Bullies Company For Blaming Price Hike on His Legislation;
WashPost Runs Story with Pro-Senator Slant on A13
Parkmobile, a company that runs an app
by which smartphone users can pay for on-street metered parking,
recently found itself bullied by a powerful liberal Democratic
senator, simply for exercising its freedom of speech. The company
found itself on the receiving end of Sen. Dick Durbin's wrath for
having sent an email to its users in which it chalked up an increase
in its transaction fees to "increased costs triggered by recent
federal legislative reform enacted by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street
Reform and Consumer Protection Act's Durbin Amendment."
The Broken-Window Fallacy
Free-market economists have
triumphantly cited the broken-window fallacy whenever someone opines
that a destructive act, whether a natural disaster or man-made
catastrophe, is paradoxically "good for the economy." The
reference is to a classic lesson given by the economist Frédéric
Bastiat in 1850.
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