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In today’s Baltimore Sun, Rachel Marsden offers sound advice to the Occupy Wall Street crowd [3]. Here’s a slice:
The idea of fair and just compensation in exchange for commensurate effort has been so corrupted that true capitalism is a rarity — even on Wall Street, where screwing up means being bailed out through corporate welfare. Ironically, the protesters occupying Wall Street have that in common with those they purport to oppose: They all want government handouts, and no one wants to hustle to change their predicament.
In Sunday’s Washington Post, Reason’s Katherine Mangu-Ward dispels five myths about healthy eating [4].
Steve Landsburg explains why [5]…
… [i]f you care about efficiency, you’ll want to cut the capital gains rate to zero for everyone. If you care about fairness, and if you believe fairness mitigates against double/triple/quadruple taxation, you’ll still want to cut the capital gains rate to zero for everyone.
Carpe Diem’s Mark Perry updates us on the state of industrial production in America [6].
Bryan Caplan asks a question of growing importance [7].
Speaking of Bryan, I thank him for alerting me to this splendid post by Scott Sumner [8].
Finally, my former student Mrs. Michelle M. McAdoo speaks with Neil Cavuto about Apple Inc [9].