Lively Debate

The Carnival of the Capitalists is up. Here is some good reading selected from this week's choices:

• Coytote Blog follows up on the Unfairness of price gouging laws.
• Mises Econmics Blog illustrates how markets work in the wake of Katrina. No regulation required, thank you.
• Financial Methods has The Thanksgiving Lesson You Should Have Learned in School.
• Union Cars vs. Forign Cars points out the collective hypocrisy of trying to legislate what others do when you aren't willing to do it yourself.

Enjoy.

As promised and at the appointed time, my picks from this week's Carnival of the Capitalists:

• Entrepreneurs Needed asks why weren't pumpkin carving kits around when I was a kid?
• Politicians and Prioritization points out how absurdly politicians and bureaucrats act when asked to make budget cuts.
• Comparative Advantage in a Changing World suggests that we need to be friendlier to small businesses.
• Blackballed - you are the brand illustrates the need to represent yourself well to represent your company well.

Yesterday was the 400th anniversary of Guy Fawkes' "gunpowder plot" to blow up the King and House of Lords in 1605. 400 years and they still remember today. If I have any British readers here (I know I do on my other blog), I'd love to hear about anything special they did for the occasion. I wonder if the 9/11 terrorist attacks will be another "day of infamy" that Americans will remember 400 years later?

Its time for the Carnival of the Capitalists again. (Yes, I know its Wednesday -- next week i'll get to it on Monday, really I will.) Some of the entries from this week that I found most interesting:

• Social Mobility. Is the US a meritocracy?
• Rates are Too High -- So Lets Limit Competition looks at payday loans.
• Managing Bureaucrats offers suggestions for moving the immovable object.
• How I could afford my house by renting out the basement. Making a silk purse out of a sow's ear?

Oh, my Protectionist Republican post is listed in this weeks CotC.