Economics
Article Roundup for June 11, 2010
Much to catch up on! Iran and the ‘Freedom Recession’ – Fouad Ajami of the Wall Street Journal comments on the wretched response of the current president to the plight of Iranian dissidents being crushed by the mullahs. The Cuckoo’s Nest – David Harsanyi of the Denver Post mocks the bitching and moaning of leftists [...]
The Case Against Keynes (With Some Questions for Krugman, Too)
I have a dear friend of mine who has served as something of a spiritual mentor for years. He is brilliant in many ways, very conservative socially and religiously, but is a died-in-the-wool liberal from the 1960s who has yet to shake off the last vestiges of this poison. He insists Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize-winning [...]
Sunset In Taxifornia?
We have the worst sort of bumbling idiots ruining California’s finances. As bitterly disappointed as I am with Arnold Schwarzenegger’s disastrous run as governor, he seems to have finally woken up to the fact that he has to slash and burn the budget, lest the state completely collapse financially.
The welfare state’s death spiral
Though I loathe the welfare state and its insistence on holding up leeches who do little to earn the bloated state salary earned on the back of businessmen, I feel no joy in knowing that the West will go through a nasty death-rattle before the economy resets itself. Robert Samuelson eulogizes the welfare state at [...]