Jan 21 2010
Manarin Link Roundup #2
In this edition of the link roundup members of the the Manarin Investment Counsel team touch on the areas of health, media, the stock market, IRAs and the environment.
If Economists Could Write the News on Trade Protection Mark Perry takes a Washington Post article on trade protection and crosses out words and replaces them with sentences to show how an economist would present the article. Very amusing.
How To Live To Be 100 Fascinating lecture on the world’s longest-lived societies and the common diet and lifestyle habits keeping them active past age 100.
Rethink that Roth A number of investors are interested in converting their tradional IRAs to Roth accounts but it might not make sense for you. This is a good overview of some of the issues you should be aware of.
Weather Channel Founder Debunks the Global Warming Myth John Coleman makes a case against the global warming alarmist theories.
Chart of the Day An interesting comparison of the current stock market rally to major rallies of the past.
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If economists wrote the news on trade protection………….an amusing and true commentary such as duties are in fact taxes. It does make you wonder how many people really understand the economics of business and prosperity as opposed to “fair outcomes”. Characteristically, those who favor those “fair outcomes” seem also to be farthest from the action and reality.
Hi Harold: Great comment! We’ve had Dr. Perry on our radio show before and he always does an excellent job of presenting the facts of our free enterprise system.