Barack Obama, Conspiracy, Debt, Economy, Regulation, Taxation
STATISM AND STUPIDITY ARE INTERCHANGEABLE. “Employers chopped 85,000 jobs last month, and difficulty finding work helped chase more than half a million people out of the job market,” reports the Hartford Courant. To Obama, this is genuinely surprising. Didn’t he do everything possible to avert such a scenario? Didn’t he do everything right? Sure, if […Read On]
STATISM AND STUPIDITY ARE INTERCHANGEABLE. “Employers chopped 85,000 jobs last month, and difficulty finding work helped chase more than half a million people out of the job market,” reports the Hartford Courant. To Obama, this is genuinely surprising. Didn’t he do everything possible to avert such a scenario? Didn’t he do everything right? Sure, if […Read On]
Is America back and are the statists out? If only, says the one-and-only Peter Schiff. “The statists aren’t out; they’re here, they’re in control.” The Fed has yet to raise interest rates as it ought to. Americans have yet to begin saving in earnest. The government’s sticky paws are all over the place, prices are […Read On]
Classical Liberalism, Economy, Free Markets, Regulation, Republicans, Socialism
Dick Armey took on a Clinton lackey named, deceptively, David Goodfriend on the CNBC program Kudlow Reports. Armey, whom I think has a PhD in economics—as is its wont, Wikipedia won’t say—mentioned von Mises winning the great calculation debate. I believe he mumbled about von Mises whipping Lange or Lerner, but I can’t be sure. […Read On]