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1. about 13 hours ago on La Cucaracha

   Economics is a behavioral science. Sowell correctly reports how labor markets respond to increases in government-mandated minimum wage.

2. about 14 hours ago on La Cucaracha

   “Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of the creation or escalation of a government-mandated minimum wage, because they lose their jobs or fail to find jobs when they enter the labor force. Making it illegal to pay less than a given amount does not make a worker’s productivity worth that amount—and, if it is not, that worker is unlikely to be employed.”

   ― Thomas Sowell, Basic Economics: A Citizen’s Guide to the Economy

3. about 15 hours ago on Robert Ariail

   There’s a Wikipedia article with that title.

4. 1 day ago on Jeff Stahler

   COMPROMISE

   First guy: Let’s round up all the Jews and send them to concentration camps.

   Second guy: Let’s not.

   First guy: Let’s compromise. Let’s just round up half.

5. 1 day ago on Clay Bennett

   There’s a Wikipedia article titled “Right-to-work law”

6. 2 days ago on Views of the World

   Thank you for your thoughtful comment.

7. 3 days ago on Clay Bennett

   The New Christy Minstrels

8. 3 days ago on Views of the World

   Thanks for your reply.

   Computer models will tell me what I tell them to.

9. 3 days ago on Views of the World

   What effect human beings (and other species) will have on the Earth’s climate X years from now cannot be predicted. The hypothesis cannot be tested.

10. 4 days ago on Michael Ramirez

    That’s the effect, not the cause, of inflation.