Obama’s Legacy is Failure
No need to wait around three years and beyond to know what Barack Obama’s “legacy” will be. It will be failure. Few, if any, presidents have demonstrated his level of incompetence and ineptitude.
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Economics · Environment/Energy · FIRE · Politics
Resentencing Skilling: Reading Between The Lines
Jeffrey Skilling has always maintained his innocence. Will he get a new trial?
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Economics · FIRE · Legal Affairs · Politics
Gambling in the Casino: U.S. vs. Standards and Poor’s
Like Captain Renault in the 1942 movie Casablanca, I am “shocked… shocked” to find that gambling has been going on in the mortgage-backed securities business. And so, apparently, is the[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · FIRE · Liberty · Regulation · Taxes
Paul Krugman, Occupy Wall Street, and the Never-Ending Push to Tax the Rich
Last week in the New York Times, economist Paul Krugman called for higher taxes than the Clinton era, citing how increased revenues need to be in the picture and not[...]
Economics · FIRE · Regulation
Postscripts: National Debt, Libya, Inflation and the Fannie/Freddie Mess
Reactions to recent events by astronaut, former U.S. Senator from New Mexico and Heartland Institute board member Harrison Schmitt (cross-posted at Schmitt’s personal blog, America’s Uncommon Sense): Debt Limit The fiscal house[...]
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Readable Links- MSNBC host Chris Hayes pens radical 'climate justice' manifesto | WashingtonExaminer.com
- Who Owns the Land?
- The terrible economic burden of occupational licensing
- Competition, disruptive innovation, and men's razors
- Althouse: The Clinton White House "conspiracy commerce memo" warned, in 1995, that "THE INTERNET... allows an extraordinary amount of unregulated data and information to be located in one area and available to all."
- The Epic Hypocrisy of Tom Steyer
- Competition, Rent-Seeking, and High-Frequency Trading
