Ravynstone Abbey » Economics http://www.ravynstoneabbey.com Books Have Turned Her Brain Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:23:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Freakonomics Blog » Will the High Price of Oil Make Americans Skinnier? http://www.ravynstoneabbey.com/freakonomics-blog-will-the-high-price-of-oil-make-americans-skinnier/ http://www.ravynstoneabbey.com/freakonomics-blog-will-the-high-price-of-oil-make-americans-skinnier/#comments Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:33:25 +0000 Alexandrine http://ravynstoneabbey.wordpress.com/2007/01/11/freakonomics-blog-will-the-high-price-of-oil-make-americans-skinnier/  

Link to Freakonomics Blog » Will the High Price of Oil Make Americans Skinnier?

 

Yes, another link, but this one is interesting.  I’m trying to cut out HFCS and lordy it is everywhere!

I may order my Dr. Pepper from Dublin, TX as they use cane sugar, and I’ve always wondered what it would taste like.

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Precisely.  I've thought that if certain jobs actually paid enough, Americans would work at those jobs.  It is expensive nowadays to rais e a family and y'know actually keep one's head above water.  $5.15/hr (the oh so generous minimum wage) does NOT pay the bills and neither does $10.42/hr (40 hour check=$337 after taxes and insurance).

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Interesting essay on outsourcing and the economy.

A quote:

Many Americans and almost every economist and policymaker do not see the peril. They confuse outsourcing with free trade, and they have been taught that free trade is always beneficial.

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Great post from last year. I was digging through my drafts on Blogger and unearthed a proto-post I was writing. I wonder what students are actually taught in Economics.

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