Also quite funny, see here.
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Also quite funny, see here. David Stockman, an OMB director under President Reagan, wrote a lengthy, but worthwhile, piece in Politico this week, blasting the Washington, D.C., establishment for creating a disastrous fiscal mess. He is pessimistic about our ability to get out of it, and I am increasingly coming to the view that some kind of fiscal and financial [...] As I like to say, in the context of political discussions, when people talk about the “rich”, they are generally referring to “people who make more than I do.” The term “the rich” means what people want it to mean, which perhaps means that it has lost much of its meaning. For those who think [...] Writing books about the Obama Administration is a lucrative business for journalists, particularly those who can get inside access. From the Washington Post: When it comes to pursuing sources, the authors who work for major news organizations have a key advantage. They are in regular touch with Obama aides for their day jobs and can obtain [...] Joseph Lavorgna, chief U.S. economist for Deutsche Bank, was on The Kudlow Report yesterday talking about how various US corporations (including, Berkshire Hathaway, Proctor & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Abbott Labs, and Lowe’s Home Improvement) are able to issue two-year debt at lower interest rates than the Federal government right now. This tends to get [...] Douglas Holtz-Eakin (former director of the CBO from 2003-5) recently published an excellent article in the New York Times documenting government deception regarding the budget numbers used to pass healthcare. To those who claim that the CBO considers the bill good for the federal budget, he has this to say (italics mine): How can the budget [...] I have blogged in the past regarding the fact that what I care about is not policy successes, so much as more people becoming libertarians. (Read the comments in that post, too.). Poor policies, like those being billed as healthcare “reform”, are simply a symptom of an underlying problem, people having poor ideas regarding economics [...] Yikes! Slate published an article recently that has gotten a lot of attention regarding how the Federal government poisoned its own citizens during Prohibition: Frustrated that people continued to consume so much alcohol even after it was banned, federal officials had decided to try a different kind of enforcement. They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols [...] 1. A divorced couple is asking the legal system to adjudicate their dispute about exposing their child to various religions. This seems like a tough issue to me, not because of the religious issues involved, but over the dispute about whether or not exposing the child to both Judaism and Catholism “confuses” her or has [...] |
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