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Showing posts with label economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label economy. Show all posts
Sunday, June 20, 2010

Depopulation of the Town of Olive

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I am a Town committee-person for the GOP and so carry petitions.  I had called twenty people in the tiny district of Olivebridge, which isn...
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Friday, June 4, 2010

Democrats, Progressive Republicans Take Sledge Hammer to Economy

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Bloomberg reports that the economy is in a tailspin.  The unemployment rate is now 9.7%, 0.2% lower than last month, but that statistic dece...
Sunday, May 9, 2010

Washington's War on Men

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Wall Street Journal editor David Wessel says on this video, which I picked up from Market Watch , that even when the economy recovers Larry...
Saturday, April 17, 2010

The Democratic Party's Stimulus Has Failed

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The Ways and Means Republicans have released the numbers below via e-mail.  While Mr. Obama and his colleagues claimed that there would be a...
Monday, August 31, 2009

Work Is for Chumps

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In the nineteenth century Americans were taught to rely on themselves and to build a better mousetrap. Although we were much poorer then, pr...
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Democrats' and Republicans' Impoverishment Plans

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The Democrats have this impoverishment plan: 1. Teach children that production of wealth is immoral while taxation is moral. 2. Tax output o...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Rise and Decline of Hellenistic Monarchies

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Recently, Newsweak featured a headline claiming that "We Are All Socialists Now." Perhaps it should have featured a picture of De...
Thursday, March 19, 2009

Nancy Razik Foresees Riots--Recommends Stocking Food

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I just received the following e-mail from Nancy Razik. I live in a rural area in upstate New York which is unlikely to see riots (except by ...
Friday, December 19, 2008

Sex and the Oil Barrel

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The Wall Street Journal reports that depression fears and continued OPEC production have driven oil prices to four year lows. The pro share...
Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Chump Change

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Barack Obama's famous campaign slogan was "change". At the same time, the most important issue to his supporters and cultish f...
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Inflation and the New President

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The Wall Street Journal Online (paid access) has an editorial about the racial and economic implications of the presidential race. WSJ note...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Idiosyncracies of American Democracy

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Democracy does not work so rationally as we would wish. The public knows the word "economy" and believes that there are difficulti...
Sunday, September 21, 2008

Kathy Laments the Markets

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I received the following e-mail from Kathy of the Lone Star State. My response follows: > Hello Mitchell, > I am consumed with news ...
Friday, September 19, 2008

Barack Obama: Progressive for President

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The Progressives believed that socialism should replace individualism and that community was more important than individuality. Barack Obama...
Thursday, September 18, 2008

Newt Gingrich and Solutions Day

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I received the following e-mail from Newt Gingrich, which presumably went out to the RNC mailing list. Speaker Gingrich wants to have a nati...
Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Barack Obama's Leeches

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Mayor Bloomberg was on television yesterday. I wasn't paying careful attention but he seemed to be suggesting that American Internationa...
Thursday, September 11, 2008

Economy Talk

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Republican talk show pundits like Sean Hannity are wrong to defend George Bush. In pursuing an inflationary, interventionist policy Presiden...
Monday, August 4, 2008

The Progressives' Sleight of Hand

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In the nineteenth century, "progress" meant technological and economic progress. Whig economists like Henry Carey believed in prog...
Monday, June 16, 2008

Social Democratic Liberalism Came to Serve Corruption

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Americans' acceptance of the Keynesian ideology, often called social democracy or post-war liberalism, had its roots in Hamiltonian Fede...
Sunday, May 25, 2008

American Workers Are Worse Off--But Why the Baloney?

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The table below lists government data on savings rates, the prime interest rate, inflation and real wages since 1972. It is evident from the...