Comments on: Let’s Tax These Bubble-Driven Windfall Profits

By: Slam Smith

Slam Smith — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:36:43 +0000

Not that this is unusual. Bill O’Reilly says lots of stupid stuff.

By: Joshua Sharf

Joshua Sharf — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:06:47 +0000

Apparently, the market is not perfect. The oversupply of the humor-challenged continues unabated.

By: Porkopolis

Porkopolis — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 19:22:21 +0000

Reductio ad absurdum to the max!

Great post from Coyote Blog on windfall profits which complements this:

By: Porkopolis

Porkopolis — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 19:11:00 +0000

Reductio ad absurdum to the max!!!!

Bill O’Reilly has also been saying some stupid things of late with regard to oil company profits.

See Economic Simpletons: The O’Reilly X-Factor at : http://porkopolis.blogspot.com/2005/10/economic-simpletons-oreilly-x-factor.html .

By: Pedro Bento

Pedro Bento — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 06:57:21 +0000

Reminds me of Hayek’s article – I think it was called “The Market for Ideas”. In it, he compared the market for ideas, literature, speech – expression in general – to markets for goods, which the media, the literary community, university professors, etc., mostly thought should be regulated. Using their own arguments, Hayek made the case that the market for ideas was much more prone to failure than the market for goods, and should, therefore, be heavily regulated. Apparently, nobody thought this was very funny…

By: Marnee

Marnee — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 18:34:14 +0000

Phew, you almost had me there coyote. I thought you'd started smoking crack! Muahahaha!

Great post. Stick it to em.