Tuesday, August 5, 2008
‘Politicians seem to have an irresistible urge to intervene whenever voters start suffering from higher prices, but usually those interventions do more harm than good,’ argues Harvard economist Edward Glaeser . . . Paleontologists excavating a brickyard in Poland ‘have discovered the remains of a dinosaur they say is a previously unknown ancestor of the Tyrannosaurus Rex’. . . The Financial Times Deutschland argues that choosing Beijing to host the 2008 Summer Olympics ‘was a drastic mistake’. . . ‘It has been a tough year for the high priests of global warming in the U.S.,’ writes Arthur Herman . . . Should the British be worried about sovereign wealth funds?
‘Politicians seem to have an irresistible urge to intervene whenever voters start suffering from higher prices, but usually those interventions do more harm than good,’ argues Harvard economist Edward Glaeser . . .
Paleontologists excavating a brickyard in Poland ‘have discovered the remains of a dinosaur they say is a previously unknown ancestor of the Tyrannosaurus Rex’. . .
The Financial Times Deutschland argues that choosing Beijing to host the 2008 Summer Olympics ‘was a drastic mistake’. . .
‘It has been a tough year for the high priests of global warming in the U.S.,’ writes Arthur Herman . . .
Should the British be worried about sovereign wealth funds?