Behold the sheer, unassailable brilliance of Milton Friedman. The man can call his debater a demagogue to his face and it doesn’t come across as anything but clear headed truth, in part because ...
Behold the sheer, unassailable brilliance of Milton Friedman. The man can call his debater a demagogue to his face and it doesn’t come across as anything but clear headed truth, in part because ...
Amid the recent and ongoing debate over deficits and welfare state programs like unemployment insurance here in the US, it’s very interesting that Denmark Is Shrinking Its Social Safety Net: Denmark has long held the title of the best place on earth to be laid off. With an expensive, generous welfare state, and the world’s most ...
The interview above is a follow up after Dr. Paul released a statement rightfully condemning the opposition to the downtown mosque as hate speech and demagoguery. Read the full release for a refreshing ...
Here’s Paul Krugman, nobel prize winning economist, taking umbrage at the “attacks on social security” in a recent Op-Ed Column. Mr. Krugman is just beside himself about what he sees as phoney concern over the solvency of this great bastion of the New Deal. He claims the math just doesn’t add up to be ...
Everyone in America needs to read “Feds rethink policies that encourage home ownership” by Paul Wiseman at USA Today. The article is a truly amazing, surprisingly thorough overview of the massive amount of government distortion and manipulation in the US ...
Reason.tv interviews the director of “The Lottery”. She is clearly not a right-wing ideologue, going out of her way to praise the President’s “race to the top” education program (a program I personally ...
In his latest plea for government to ramp up even more spending in order to keep over-expanded state governments from cutting back down to affordable size, Paul Krugman, the nobel-prize-winning economist, made a fairly shocking error: That is, for all the talk of a failed stimulus, if you look at government spending as a whole you ...
The facts speak for themselves via Reuters: Companies cut back on temporary hires, a segment normally considered a harbinger of future hiring. Government jobs dried up much faster than anticipated and not just because it saw the end of short-term census jobs. The jobless rate held steady at 9.5 percent, defying expectations for a slight increase, but that ...
This just in via James Pethokoukis at Reuters. Fannie and Freddie, who managed to help cause the worst housing boom and bust and deepest downturn since 1930 while utterly escaping this year’s Financial “reform” bill may be unleashed to perform an epic pre-election payoff scheme: Main Street may be about to get its own gigantic ...
I was excited about the Volt. Not so much now that it’s basically had its aggressive styling replaced with boring me-too rounded nonsense. It’s a luxury-priced economy car. So when I saw the NY Times rip it apart, I wasn’t that surprised. Now Mother Jones is coming to the defense, presumably on green-at-any-cost ...
