From the article, it seems that this chain feels that there is some change in demand curve for senior citizens. But not all parks are getting rid of their discounts.
Amusement Park Chain Ends Senior Discounts
By PATRICK WALTERS
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Roller coasters that go upside down don't
Has anyone read the book FDR's Folly by Jim Powell?
Cyril Morong
This week's edition of Parade Magazine has an article byBarry Schwartz, author of the book "The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less." He is a professor of psychology at Swarthmore.
He says that as the number of choices we have grows (for products) we become less happy, that it is too hard to
The Wall Street Journal reported:
Greenspan "...repeated his lonstanding view that Social Security benefits should be pegged to a price index that measures inflation differently from the consumer price index now used. He prefers the "chained" consumer price index, which better reflects how
Anyone know the answer to this? I emailed Bradley Schiller on this and his response is below.
Cyril Morong
Dr. Schiller:In your book "The Economy Today" (9E), you have statistical tables on theinside covers. For the 1960s, you show the United States with more exportsjust about every year than
What happened to nominal wages in the Great Depression, especially 1929-33? Did they
change much for people who were not laid off?
Does anyone know of a good website that shows data for nominal wages in the Great
Depression? Is there one that does so for those still employed?
Cyril Morong
The Wall Street Journal had a good article and leters about gas prices this week.
Cyril Morong
April 6, 2004
Commentary (U.S.)
Gas Panic
By JERRY TAYLOR and PETER VAN DOREN
The hysteria is building. Newspapers and television news broadcasts scream that gasoline prices today are higher than
I forgot a couple of the letters
April 8, 2004 Letters No Need to Sing Those Gas-Guzzlin' Blues
The excellent April 6 editorial-page piece "Gas Panic" by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren pointed out that real gasoline prices are not as high as the hysterics would have us believe. But it
From Rethinking Carter by
William L. Anderson
[Posted October 25, 2000]
Posted at
http://www.mises.org/fullarticle.asp?control=535id=68
by the Von Mises Institute
First, he announced gradual decontrol of oil prices and the phasing out of the
Keystone-Cops like government allocation
