“When Airline Fares are Too Good to be True,” By Scott McCartney WSJ, paper edition, March 25, 2010, D1 This article presents several troubling sets of facts.  The problem centers on errors made in posting fares and these errors are sufficiently dramatic that a mistake is clear.  The example is an American Airline first-class ticket posted for $1,100, when it [...]

Did FDR End the Depression? By Burton Folsom, Jr. and Anita Folsom WSJ, paper edition, A17, April 12, 2010 Today unemployment is at its highest level in the US since the late 1970s and, before that, since the 1930’s and World War II.Despite advocacy of more government programs by Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, the Democratic majorities in the U. S. [...]

Brin Drove Google’s Pullback, by Jessica E. Vascellaro WSJ, paper edition, A1, March 25, 2010 “Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin pushed the Internet giant to take a risky step of abandoning its China-based search engine as that country’s efforts to censor the Web and suppress dissidents smacked of the “totalitarianism” of his youth in the Soviet Union.”  Now, that is [...]

Brin Drove Google’s Pullback, by Jessica E. Vascellaro WSJ, paper edition, A1, March 25, 2010 “Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin pushed the Internet giant to take a risky step of abandoning its China-based search engine as that country’s efforts to censor the Web and suppress dissidents smacked of the “totalitarianism” of his youth in the Soviet Union.”  Now, that is [...]