If we desire speculators not to bid up oil supplies, we need to throw off our shackles and drop the restrictions on supply and demand. Speculators need a reason to believe prices will go down.
One of the free market’s chief criticisms is that there is inefficiency from buyers not knowing everything producers know. That situation can be remedied, without coercion, to the benefit of buyers and information brokers. Instead, the government just cost someone an opportunity to earn income.
We did really well on Thursday, almost as well on Friday, and Saturday was two-thirds yet of Friday. The basement is bigger, and what wasn’t sold will be donated, sold to Half Price Books, or sold on EBay. We still have the treadmill and the two cribs, but amazingly the two double-strollers sold.
Inner monologue for customers who want to talk me down on the first day of a garage sale.
For all our efforts to divide the human populace between “churched” and “unchurched” for programmatic and spending purposes, this data shows that we cannot take the beliefs of the “churched” for granted.
