Sunday, January 27, 2013

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.

Listen to the podcast (download)

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

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