Congress adjourned this month without extending the $6 billion annual tax subsidy for blending corn ethanol into gasoline and the steep import tariffs on the industry’s foreign competitors. Good. I can’t figure out whether the ethanol mandate also died. If … Continue reading
Trying to convince anyone that the bank bailout was a dumb idea, that it would have been better and wiser to have let the stricken banks fail, is a doubtful undertaking. The accepted wisdom is that they were “too big … Continue reading
This is apparently confirmed as a real billboard on Interstate 35 in Minnesota, somewhere on the way to Duluth. I don’t miss him at all, for reasons that would not be apparent to a casual political observer. It’s not that … Continue reading