Category Archives: Politics
Change We Can Believe In: Soak the Rich
Sometime in early 1848 French poet Alphonse de Lamartine had a change of appetite. For whatever reason, he no longer took to gobbling up frog legs but to gobbling up the new, forward thinking, ideas of the day. It all … Continue reading
On Scientific Management of the Economy and Going for Broke
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke should never have left Princeton. He’s much better suited for a lifetime of pontification than real work. Not that chairing the Federal Reserve is real work. Yet, even so, at least as a professor his … Continue reading
The Economic Shredding Machine
Like the U.S. Treasury, President Obama’s recent jobs proposal is bankrupt. Quite frankly, we weren’t counting on much. But that doesn’t mean we still weren’t disappointed by its burdensome emptiness. The most remarkable thing about the President’s latest jobs creation … Continue reading
More Public Spending Only Hastens the Demise
Kicking off Labor Day weekend last Friday was a report by the Labor Department that, on balance, the U.S. economy failed to create a single job in August. On the bright side, this also means not a single job was … Continue reading
