For starters, it’s bad for the environment: …In the long term, the Amazon Rainforest, for example, will experience vast deforestation due to Brazil’s increased sugarcane production in order to meet its ethanol export goals. This inevitably will result in the slow degradation of one of the Americas most precious and fragile ecosystems… And it is disastrous to the world’s poor and underprivileged, who can no longer afford corn, a staple item particularly in Latin/South...
Apparently, my post about “generic” skateboard decks last week is getting a bit of attention. I do mean “a bit.” The WSJ has sent 30-some-odd visitors to my site, and this morning I received a trackback link from a blog hosted by Le Monde, a historically left-leaning French newspaper. If you can read French, you can check it out. If not, find someone who can read French. In any event, the link to my...
Always ignored in protectionist arguments is the question of how a company like Toyota, that nobody had ever heard of, run by yellow men with slanty eyes who were our mortal enemies 20 years prior – how this sort of David could’ve slain the mighty Goliath of American manufacturing. It is, in a word, inconceivable. If any market wasn’t “fair,” whatever that means, it was the market for automobiles in the U.S. in the...
