Independence Institute

The Antiplanner’s Library: The Economic Crisis 0
- TRANSPORTATION - Miscellaneous
- March 2, 2011
The 2008 financial crisis has proven to be a bonanza for at least one industry: Book publishers have issued dozens of tomes about what went wrong and how to fix it. Lately, the Antiplanner has been reading as many of these as possible. Most of the authors have an axe to grind and many blame […]
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$590 Million to Increase Speeds by 2.7 MPH 0
- TRANSPORTATION - Miscellaneous
- March 1, 2011
Secretary of Immobility Ray LaHood proudly announced Saturday that the BNSF Railway has agreed to increase Portland-Seattle train speeds from their current average of 53.4 mph to 56.1 mph, saving just 10 minutes (3 hours 30 minutes reduced to 3 hours 20 minutes) over the 187-mile trip. This, said LaHood, is “part of the President’s […]
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South Island Tragedies 0
- TRANSPORTATION - Miscellaneous
- February 28, 2011
In 2007, an American scholar teaching in Christchurch uncovered a public-land scandal: New Zealand was giving grazing lands to local farmers at prices that were well below market. In fact, the government often paid farmers to take land that they sometimes turned around and sold at a huge profit. The scholar was Ann Brower, who […]
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Missing Comments 0
- TRANSPORTATION - Miscellaneous
- February 25, 2011
Some people have noticed that some of the comments people made on Wednesday’s post are missing. Apparently, the server went down and my ISP lost the last dozen or so comments. It also lost this morning’s post. I was able to recreate this morning’s post, but not the comments. Feel free to remake the comments […]
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