{"id":787,"date":"2006-05-10T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=787"},"modified":"2006-10-09T20:31:57","modified_gmt":"2006-10-09T12:31:57","slug":"785-of-economics-101-substitute-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=787","title":{"rendered":"[785] Of economics 101: substitute goods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Should I get a Pringles?<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/pringles.jpg?w=580\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Or locally produced Agromas instead?<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/agroMas.jpg?w=580\" \/><\/div>\n<p>One thing for sure, both are unhealthy.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" \/><\/p>\n<p>p\/s &#8211; Laffer curve. Though the idea is nothing new, <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/columnist\/article\/economist\/4065\">there&#8217;s an interesting coincidence<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/bigpicture.typepad.com\/comments\/2006\/05\/stephen_moore_g.html\">via<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Economist Arthur Laffer made a very interesting supposition: If tax rates are high enough, then cutting taxes might actually generate more revenue for the government, or at least pay for themselves. (In one of life&#8217;s great coincidences, he first sketched a graph of this idea on Dick Cheney&#8217;s cocktail napkin.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know it was sketched on a napkin. But I didn&#8217;t know it was Cheney&#8217;s napkin.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" \/><\/p>\n<p>pp\/s &#8211; Blind sacked. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajax-usa.com\/index.jsp\">Ajax-USA<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A surprise? Not exactly. Ajax officially confirmed today what everybody already knew: the club have decided to replace head-coach Danny Blind, as well as his assistants Ruud Krol and Gerard van der Lem. The reasons: Ajax never competed for the Dutch championship this season and the first team players have not made the desired progress, neither as individuals nor as a collective. Chairman John Jaakke and technical director Martin van Geel commented on the club&#8217;s decision at a press conference at the Amsterdam ArenA. They expect that the new Ajax-1 boss can be presented in less than three weeks&#8217; time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Henk ten Cate, Rijkaard&#8217;s man at Barcelona, might be the next person for the Ajax job. Also, from Ajax-USA<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Certain Dutch journalists have actually called my mother to ask her about my future! I find that scandalous. I understand that journalists are supposed to their job, but come on: don&#8217;t they have certain values? Leave my mother out of it!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Henk ten Cate, who is generally expected to coach Ajax-1 next season, on RTV Noord-Holland.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should I get a Pringles? Or locally produced Agromas instead? One thing for sure, both are unhealthy. p\/s &#8211; Laffer curve. Though the idea is nothing new, there&#8217;s an interesting coincidence (via): Economist Arthur Laffer made a very interesting supposition: If tax rates are high enough, then cutting taxes might actually generate more revenue for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-photography","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}