"He's a snake in the grass, I tell ya guys; he may look dumb but that's just a disguise; he's a mastermind in the ways of espionage." Charlie Daniels, "Uneasy Rider" December 2008 - Posts - TT's Lost in Tokyo

December 2008 - Posts

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WSJ on "green" power: Us Grinches HATE Green indoctrination! We also don`t like consumer choice and free markets! by TokyoTom

 

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"Clean coal" leaves a big mess; which faceless employee, manager or shareholder committed this tort? by TokyoTom

Yes, I'm referring to the bursting of the TVA holding dam in Kingston, TN a few days ago, leaving a Christmas Eve present of millions of cubic feet of wet fly ash several feet deep over hundreds of acres downstream, including now valueless private...
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Limited liability produces both pollution and political meddling: Block on Environmentalism by TokyoTom

 

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Dialogue with Stephan Kinsella on the state grant to shareholders of limited liability for corporate torts - a gift that keeps on giving by TokyoTom

Stephan Kinsella , in two recent blog posts, Left-Libertarians on Corporations "Expropriating the Efforts of Stakeholders" and Corporations and Limited Liability for Torts , kindly provided a forum to discuss the issue of the limited liability...
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Clips of Peter Schiff, Jim Rogers and Nouriel Roubini on financial mismanagment and economic consequences by TokyoTom

I attach below a few clips of what looks like relatively perceptive financial and economic commentary by Peter Schiff , president of Euro Pacific Capital Inc. , Jim Rogers , well-known investor (and co-founder with George Soros of the Quantum Fund) and...
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Legal resources on state-created limited liability for shareholders, consequences and reform by TokyoTom

Here, in chronological order, are some legal resources on state-created limited liability for shareholders: history, alternatives, consequences and reform: Christopher D. Stone, "The Place of Enterprise Liability in the Control of Corporate Conduct"...
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Legal resources on state-created limited liability for shareholders, consequences and reform by TokyoTom

Hare are some legal resources on state-created limited liability for shareholders, consequences and reform: Christopher D. Stone, The Place of Enterprise Liability in the Control of Corporate Conduct, 90 YALE L.J. 1 (1980). Paul Halpern; Michael Trebilcock;...
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Frank Rich: Blagojevich is small fish to the culture of corruption that Bush represents by TokyoTom

Further to my prior post on the early arrival of Fitzmas for Illinois governor Ron Blagojevich , Frank Rich writes that Blagojevich is small fish to the culture of corruption that Pres. Bush has led . I agree that they are of like kind, but entirely different...
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Kristof gets Japan's "lost decade" wrong; argues for a US lost decade by supporting the auto bailout by TokyoTom

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof argues on Sunday that an auto industry bailout is needed given the importance of the industry to the US economy, and bases his conclusion on how economic mismanagement by Japan resulted in the "lost decade"...
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Australia kicks off government web censorship with voluntary live trial by TokyoTom

I've already blogged on Australia's plan to force internet service providers to implement filters that are intended to block access to internet sites that are on a secret list maintained by the government (and that internet providers may not disclose...
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It's finally beginning to look alot like Fitzmas - for corrupt Dems: Illinois Gov. Blagojevich arrested for trying to auction Obama's Senate seat by TokyoTom

US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald , who disappointed by bagging only Cheney 's assistant Scooter Libby in connection with the White House planned unmasking of CIA agent Valerie Plame , is in the news again - this time to the cheers of Republicans - as...
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Save wild fisheries - buy your certified sustainable salmon from Walmart! by TokyoTom

I've blogged before on the "tragedy of the commons"/bureaucratic mismanagement problems that underlie the crashing of the West Coast salmon fisheries and that imperil the giant Atlantic bluefin tuna ; a recent article by Fortune shows that...
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Bush's Advent message on Appalachian coal: "Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low" by TokyoTom

Just in time for last Sunday's readings at Advent liturgies of Isaiah 40:4, on December 2 the White House and EPA approved the final issuance by the Department of the Interior of industry-backed changes in the 25-year-old stream "buffer zone"...
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Stop those pirates/terrorists! (But ignore those "great bands of brigands" whose navies and prosecutors are needed.) by TokyoTom

Jonathan Adler at The Volokh Conspiracy refers us to yet another editorialist (this time not Bret Stephens of the WSJ but Douglas Burgess Jr. at the Washington Post ) saying that the Somali "pirates are terrorists" and calling for changes in...
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