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Recent Commentary
Peak Idiocy
Peak idiocy is an apt description of the Kemper County Lignite craze that possessed a former governor, the Mississippi Public Service Commission before the last election, and other notables. I borrowed the term from a recent article in Investor’s Business Daily entitled “Goodbye, OPEC” which asked this question: “Doesn't it seem like yesterday when the left was running around shrieking about ‘peak oil?’ More like peak idiocy.” Not just the left, it seems.
Read More Time to Change the Flood Control Plan
I testified about flooding on the Mississippi before the Mississippi River Commission in Greenville on April 18, 2018. Readers with properties on the river, its oxbow lakes, and tributaries may be surprised to learn why they flood. It’s the bottlenecks.
Read More BPF Book Review – The Complacent Class
The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream, offers a provocative and scary thesis – there is a troubling trend in America towards more stasis and less risk-taking that threatens America’s potential for long-term economic growth along with the prosperity of its middle class.
Read More A BPF View on County Infrastructure
Ultimately, the responsibility for fixing locally-owned bridges falls on the counties themselves and those that are able, yet don't take care of their core governmental functions shouldn't get a bailout from taxpayers from other part of the state.
Read More Facebook – Is Free on the Internet Really Free?
It took less than 15 years for Facebook to rocket from a Harvard dorm room to one of the most valuable companies on the planet. Now in just one week it has lost more than $52 billion in market value. This begs several questions. Do friends and friends of friends want to be surveilled? Is a great company built on monetizing mountains of personal data through undisclosed means a sustainable business over the long term?
Read More A Conversation Starter for Changing Mississippi’s Regulation of Utilities
Bigger Pie Forum commissioned a study of the structure of PSCs around the country. Among its many discoveries, the study found that Mississippi’s arrangement, which has an investigative staff that is a separate entity from the PSC, is unique among the states.
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