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This has been making the rounds of the internet, and while it's apocryphal, I actually know several business owners who have done just as this letter says. To All My Valued Employees, There have been some rumblings around the office about the future of this company, and more specifically, your j...

Do you want to know why there were no seat belts on the bus in Arizona filled with Chinese nationals on vacation near Hoover Dam?  Ask the American Bus Association (ABA), which represents approximately 1000 motorcoach and tour companies in the United States and Canada.  On behalf of moto...

“Meanwhile, the city’s legal department is looking to see what, if anything, it can do about the First Amendment banner.” Via Radley Balko.  The city told Herb Quintero that he did not have the right to paint a mural on the side of his building, and had to cover it up.  So he did...

[Dave Birch] So who, exactly, is going to pay for innovation in the payments field? Should individual stakeholders incrementally innovate or shoudl we make co-ordinated attempt to improve the payment system and share the cost? Should we regulate and let the market sort things out or should we try to...

[Dave Birch] The economist John Kay wrote an excellent, excellent piece in Prospect magazine at the turn of the year. In it, he says, amongst other things, that The modern financial services industry is a casino attached to a utility. The utility is the payment system, which enables individuals and ...

2008 was a very good year for the Nanny Poo Banners. It all started when the moralists at FOX would not let Darcia Patrick's Beaver play in the Super Bowl: And it was full steam ahead from there: Wow, what eager beavers all the well-meaning busybodies have been. However there were some fool hardy at...

On Monday, September 29th, the House of Representatives voted against H.R. 1424, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. This original form of the bill numbered 110 pages and dealt predominantly with how the federal government would purchase "troubled assets", protect homeowners who are fa...

Now and then I will post about a particular subject or phenomenon and wouldn’t you know it, in a few days I’ll run across an item that ties into or adds onto or illustrates something that was in the post. That’s my official excuse for subjecting you, our loyal readers, to the follo...

Last week, the House of Representatives voted 407-to-0 to approve a consumer product safety bill that greatly increases the scope and power of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). We have given CPSC acting chairman Nancy Nord a lot of grief for giving mixed signals to Congress on whether o...