Category: Economics and Business
Terror-Free Oil: Idealism Meets Capitalism On the Streets of Omaha
Joe Kauffman, spokesman for the Terror-Free Oil Initiative, has decided to take a popular water cooler issue head-on by announcing the grand opening of the world’s first Terror-Free gas station. Opening in the first part of February in Omaha, Nebraska,...
Is Aid to Africa Effective?
The German magazine Spiegel ran an article recently attacking the notion that aid to Africa is as effective as commonly conceived. The article argues that aid to third-world African countries fosters an unhealthy dependency and has been proven to be...
Gates and China
Paul Musgrave over at In the Agora offers an interesting critique of Bill Gates’s recent speech at the World Economic Forum. Gates’s heralded Chinas as having a “brand new form of capitalism.” Musgrave, in response, writes: Similarly, Gates’s description of...