The video below features economists Russ Roberts and John Taylor, both of the Hoover Institution. It offers a quick and easy way to learn some real clear economics and to understand what is happening, and what is not happening, in … Continue reading
Richard Epstein analyzes Obama’s speech at the close of the Democrat convention and dubs Obama the “preacher-in-chief.” Epstein’s post at the Hoover Institution should be read in full. Here are the best lines, the first after a review of both … Continue reading
“We can’t afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class.” — Barack Obama That statement from Barack Obama was curious to me since top-down economics, properly understood, is what he believes … Continue reading
This is the chart prepared by the Obama administration in January, 2009, to sell the Obama stimulus plan. The chart purported to show what the unemployment rate would be with and without Obama’s stimulus plan. The red dots show the … Continue reading
The woman of the future is enlightened more by logic and reason than the pure emotional feeling that so characterized the woman of the Democrat party of the last 40 years. The woman of the future is guided more by … Continue reading
Five reasons why it won’t work, and robs economic prosperity from everyone: … Continue reading
In the first post on this subject, The Audacity of No Hope, I posted a video that showed that Government unemployment figures are affected not only when the unemployed find employment, but also when the unemployed become discouraged and quit … Continue reading
“I’m Mad Too, Eddie,” was a popular bumper sticker from the late 1970′s, along with the “misery index,” the sum of the rate of inflation and the unemployment rate. Maybe the interest rate as well. This was the Jimmah Carter … Continue reading
A Gallup Poll based on telephone interviews with 972 national adults, aged 18 and older, conducted Jan. 26-27, 2010, finds that socialism is viewed positively by 36% of Americans. Says Gallup: “For results based on the total sample of national … Continue reading