Policy Fallacy 002: A Coin of Consequence

On this week's podcast, Joe and Rex discuss the unintended consequences of collecting coins and of playing baseball with hand grenades.

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Links of the week
The trillion dollar coin law (see Section K): http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/5112
The article about the hole in the debt ceiling law (NPR): http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/01/22/169996031/debt-limit-what-debt-limit
The article about Wal-Mart's zero tolerance policy: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323301104578256183164905720.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Very similar article about Wal-Mart that's not behind a pay wall: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-01-21/business/sns-rt-us-walmart-suppliersbre90l057-20130121_1_facility-bangladeshi-authorities-wal-mart-stores-inc-plans-rajan-kamalanathan

Welcome to Policy Fallacy 001

Welcome, webwonks, to Policy Fallacy: The Podcast of Unintended Consequences. In their inaugural podcast, Regulator Joe and Wonkasaurus Rex discuss the side effects of selective treatment of tuberculosis and the potential unintended consequences of the pending soda ban in New York City.

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WSJ article on TB: http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2012/11/23/the-wall-street-journals-investigation-on-tuberculosis/
Soda ban explained (NYT): http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/10/opinion/soda-ban-explained.html?_r=0