Commentary
Business & Economics
California’s ‘Spending Limit’ Is A Sham
The outlook for the California economy is dreadful, driven by a deeply perverse tax and regulatory environment, combined with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s highly successful five-year effort to avoid hard choices. And so the state budget, the utter profligacy of which for years has been papered over with accounting tricks and ...
Business & Economics
Must Read: WSJ’s Steve Moore On Proposition 1A “Not So Golden”
A “must read” by Steve Moore, the lead economics writer for the Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Page… Not So Golden SAN DIEGO, Calif. — A key component of the budget deal that California’s Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger struck with the Democrats earlier this year was a ballot initiative to limit ...
Business & Economics
Obama’s radical economic remake promises gloomy future
President Barack Obama’s budget plan illustrates the degree to which he wants to reconstruct the U.S. economy. So radical are the changes of Obamanomics, and so at odds with historical experience, that the next few months may very well decide the economic future of the United States for a generation. ...
Commentary
George Will and the Sea-Ice Controversy: Was He More Correct Than Thought?
Back on Feb. 15, George Will wrote an op-ed in the The Washington Post in which he claimed: As global levels of sea ice declined last year, many experts said this was evidence of man-made global warming. Since September, however, the increase in sea ice has been the fastest change, ...
Commentary
Seven Ways to Make Health Care in America Better
The Deep Insight, July 21, 2009 My most recent column highlighted the massive ignorance about the U.S. health care system. Too many people want to fix the leaks in our health care roof by blowing up the building. Here’s a novel idea, let’s just fix the leaks in the roof, ...
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Benjamin Rush Society Debate: Is More Government the Right Rx?
Heritage Foundation (The Foundry), April 13, 2009 Last week the Columbia University chapter of the newly formed Benjamin Rush Society – a group of medical students and doctors who believe in the freedom to practice medicine without government interference and the freedom for patients to access the health care of ...
Business & Economics
Will ObamaNomics work? A debate between a liberal and a Libertarian
Robert P. Murphy, Senior Fellow in Business and Economic Studies, debates Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC., in this NPR radio show “Work with Marty Nemko” hosted by Marty Nemko. The topic: Will ObamaNomics work?
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Obama’s public plan will be a disaster for American health care
High-ranking Democrats recently signaled that they might exploit a procedural maneuver in congressional protocol to pass major healthcare legislation without a single Republican vote. Through “budget reconciliation,” a fast-track process that allows the Senate to pass the government’s budget without debate and with just a simple majority, Democratic leaders hope ...
Business & Economics
Obama Misreads His Mandate
Reagan didn’t assume his landslide was a license for whatever he wanted. President Barack Obama’s honeymoon period seems to have ended quickly. That’s because Mr. Obama doesn’t grasp the essentials of presidential leadership. Rather than making a compelling case for his economic policies, he has resorted to curt rebuffs, such ...
Commentary
‘Let’s Think About That’ Quotes
Let’s Think About That, April 11, 2009 “The way to make your wife treat you like a King is to treat her like a Queen.” “That’s my wife, Carolyn. See the way the handle on her pruning shears matches her gardening clogs? That’s not an accident.” – Lester Burnham, from ...
California’s ‘Spending Limit’ Is A Sham
The outlook for the California economy is dreadful, driven by a deeply perverse tax and regulatory environment, combined with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s highly successful five-year effort to avoid hard choices. And so the state budget, the utter profligacy of which for years has been papered over with accounting tricks and ...
Must Read: WSJ’s Steve Moore On Proposition 1A “Not So Golden”
A “must read” by Steve Moore, the lead economics writer for the Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Page… Not So Golden SAN DIEGO, Calif. — A key component of the budget deal that California’s Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger struck with the Democrats earlier this year was a ballot initiative to limit ...
Obama’s radical economic remake promises gloomy future
President Barack Obama’s budget plan illustrates the degree to which he wants to reconstruct the U.S. economy. So radical are the changes of Obamanomics, and so at odds with historical experience, that the next few months may very well decide the economic future of the United States for a generation. ...
George Will and the Sea-Ice Controversy: Was He More Correct Than Thought?
Back on Feb. 15, George Will wrote an op-ed in the The Washington Post in which he claimed: As global levels of sea ice declined last year, many experts said this was evidence of man-made global warming. Since September, however, the increase in sea ice has been the fastest change, ...
Seven Ways to Make Health Care in America Better
The Deep Insight, July 21, 2009 My most recent column highlighted the massive ignorance about the U.S. health care system. Too many people want to fix the leaks in our health care roof by blowing up the building. Here’s a novel idea, let’s just fix the leaks in the roof, ...
Benjamin Rush Society Debate: Is More Government the Right Rx?
Heritage Foundation (The Foundry), April 13, 2009 Last week the Columbia University chapter of the newly formed Benjamin Rush Society – a group of medical students and doctors who believe in the freedom to practice medicine without government interference and the freedom for patients to access the health care of ...
Will ObamaNomics work? A debate between a liberal and a Libertarian
Robert P. Murphy, Senior Fellow in Business and Economic Studies, debates Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC., in this NPR radio show “Work with Marty Nemko” hosted by Marty Nemko. The topic: Will ObamaNomics work?
Obama’s public plan will be a disaster for American health care
High-ranking Democrats recently signaled that they might exploit a procedural maneuver in congressional protocol to pass major healthcare legislation without a single Republican vote. Through “budget reconciliation,” a fast-track process that allows the Senate to pass the government’s budget without debate and with just a simple majority, Democratic leaders hope ...
Obama Misreads His Mandate
Reagan didn’t assume his landslide was a license for whatever he wanted. President Barack Obama’s honeymoon period seems to have ended quickly. That’s because Mr. Obama doesn’t grasp the essentials of presidential leadership. Rather than making a compelling case for his economic policies, he has resorted to curt rebuffs, such ...
‘Let’s Think About That’ Quotes
Let’s Think About That, April 11, 2009 “The way to make your wife treat you like a King is to treat her like a Queen.” “That’s my wife, Carolyn. See the way the handle on her pruning shears matches her gardening clogs? That’s not an accident.” – Lester Burnham, from ...
