The Yandle Report: The week that was

Bootlegger/Baptist alarm bells and some thoughts on simpler times

For some reason, this week’s events, both personal and on the economic policy front, brought back memories of simpler times in the 1950s and 1960s when buying a cup of coffee at a 7-Eleven meant pouring the good stuff from a hot carafe into a paper cup and paying the cashier, and when setting up a TV meant erecting an antenna on the side of the house an…