Japan Disaster and Broken Window Fallacy
Can the massive destruction caused by the Japanese earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdowns stimulate the economy?
Japanese Nuclear Disaster
A March 12 explosion at the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Japan, appears to have caused a reactor meltdown.
Japan Hit By Earthquake, Tsunami
Japan was rocked by a massive earthquake, which in turned spawned a tsunami.
Hurricane Earl: Obama’s Katrina
David Corn tweets, “Can I write the Hurricane-Earl-Is-Obama’s-Hurricane-Katrina piece? Or do I have to wait for Earl to make landfall? What’s protocol?”
Pakistan Flood Dwarfs Recent Crises, No One Cares
Epic flooding in Pakistan is a humanitarian crisis which dwarfs the combined devastation of the 2004 Asian tsunami, the earthquake in Pakistan in 2005, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Why aren’t we paying attention?
Taliban Threatening Pakistani Flood Aid
The task of getting aid to the 20 million victims of Pakistan’s floods may have just gotten a lot more difficult
New Orleans Police Were Ordered To Shoot Looters After Katrina
New reports indicate that New Orleans Police were given orders to shoot looters amid the chaos after Hurricane Katrina hit the city. Fortunately, that never happened.
