The Difference a Governor Makes
Chris Christie was and remains an elephant amongst a herd of donkeys.
Author: Clifford Thies
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Et tu, Cardinal Dolan? “Less Eligibility” as justification for Obamacare
The media is giving mixed reports of Cardinal Dolan’s interview on Meet the Press with David Gregory. According to Fox News, the Catholics oppose Obamacare and, according to NBC News, the Catholics embrace it.
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Audit the Fed
Transparency, therefore, has little to do with being accountable to the political branches of government. It’s about allaying the concerns of the financial market in the face of accommodative monetary policy.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Government · Taxes
“Supplemental” Poverty Measure Shows Uneven Redistribution of Poverty by Government
The release of a supplemental poverty measure by the Census Bureau is being touted as the government is not doing enough to ameliorate poverty in the country… But the real problem is that the government is already doing too much.
Wasting Away in an Obamaville
With the collapse of the real estate bubble, many normally self-sufficient individuals and families found themselves not only out of work, but homeless. This caused a surge in the number of “tent cities” in the United States. To really help our fellow man, we should shift from enabling others to not work to insisting that they do.
Nobel Prize In Economics For Asset-Pricers
The contributions of this year’s triplet of economists involve advances in the utilization of data, as well as the development of theory.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured
The Premium Bond Solution?
Last time, it was the Platinum Bond. This time, the Premium Bond. What will they think of next?
Labor Productivity vs. Compensation
The apparent divergence between Labor Productivity and earnings has been noticed by various progressive think tanks and is now making its way into public discourse. The divergence is easy to explain.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Politics · Taxes
Federal aid to Detroit: In reality, more than $2 billion; but, to what end?
Detroit is not some foreign country. It is part of our country. And, it is where we are all going unless we reject the culture of dependency and revive the culture of self-responsibility.
Did ‘We’ Decide to Build Railroads?
President Obama said, in his second inaugural address, “Together we determined that a modern economy requires railroads.” Actually, “we” determined that “a modern economy” requires canals, not railroads. We turned[...]
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- 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
