That’s Not Quite The Right Kind Of Stimulus
From this FARK thread comes the ultimate idea for what to do with that upcoming “economic stimulus” check: I’m going to go stimulate the economy. For $300, I’m going to give the economy such a...
View ArticleFollowing In The Footsteps Of Carter?
Dave Kopel blasts into the Bush-Pelosi “stimulus package” at The Volokh Conspiracy: Here’s how to deal with a recession: A federal government which is already spending more than its income should...
View ArticleObama Digs A Hole For The Economy
President-Elect Obama has chosen to embrace some of the worst economic thinking in his recently announced economic recovery plan. The buzzword he’s following is “infrastructure”—and it’s a strategy...
View Article‘Shovel Ready’ BS
Popular Mechanics has a great piece on the myth of “shovel ready” infrastructure projects: The programs that would meet the bill’s 90-day restriction are, for the most part, an unappealing mix of...
View ArticleAndrew Sullivan’s Further Descent Into Hackery
Andrew Sullivan went from being an astute conservative columnist to a frothing partisan hack somewhere around the 2004 elections. His latest column in The Sunday Times amply demonstrates his fall into...
View ArticleKrugman’s Fantasy World
Francis Cianfrocca has an interesting critical look at why Paul Krugman’s call for a massive Keynesian stimulus is the wrong policy. His thesis is right: Krugman and many other economists are stuck in...
View ArticleWe Need Real Jobs
Bob Herbert writes in The New York Times that that what America needs to recover from the recession are more jobs. On that point, he’s absolutely right. The problem is that the jobs he would choose to...
View ArticleWe’re All Merrily Skipping Down The Road To Serfdom
For those who want to know what our future will look like, here’s a brief preview. F.A. Hayek’s brilliant The Road to Serfdom in a short illustrated form. I’ve never been more bleak about the future of...
View ArticleGetting To A Real Stimulus
Carl J. Schramm has a great piece on why the real focus on stimulating the economy should be on growing the entrepreneurial class: Only private enterprise — in particular high-growth start-ups — will...
View ArticleWhy The Economy Sucks
The news on the economy continues to be bleak—while unemployment is down from nearly hitting double digits, it’s still stuck well above the historical average. GDP growth continues to be sluggish....
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