“€œCreating”€ Jobs With Stimulus Money

The $787-billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), signed into law by President Obama on February 17, 2009, has been largely forgotten, despite the fact that ...

Psychos and Zombies: Mutant Spawn of the Great Recession

Last Tuesday night, a fat, rumpled, unemployed 56-year-old man named Clay Duke invaded a Florida school-board meeting and put on a clumsy show of violent political theater before ...

From Baby Boom to Bust

Barack Obama's election was an anomaly, a lurch backward. It defied the apparently inevitable and stood athwart history crying, "€œStop!"€ It has been clear for at least ten ...

Green Monster

I’m a fan of economics and of history, as well as politics, a combination that forms some very interesting cycles to research, discuss and argue on. None is so interesting ...

The Return of Protectionism

Down at the Chinese outlet store in Albany known as Wal-Mart, Chinese tires have so successfully undercut U.S.-made tires that the Cooper Tire factory in that south Georgia town ...

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The Estrogen Recession

Are men to blame for the economic crash? That's become a popular theme in the press. For example, the BBC's business editor Robert Peston recently stated in "€œWhy men are to ...

Where Are All These Jobs?

Let's suppose a business employed ten workers in June. Along came Barack Obama and huffed and puffed and blew six jobs away. Four employees now run a pared-down operation. The ...

Big Government = Low Wages

The nationwide revelry surrounding our apparent economic recovery was disrupted this week by the release of lower-than-expected retail sales data. However, rather than sending a ...

Where Have All the Gas Pumpers Gone?

In a free market, demand is always a function of price: the higher the price, the lower the demand. What may surprise most politicians is that these rules apply equally to both ...

Happy Days

Strike up the band, boys, happy days are here again! Recently released short-term economic data, including unemployment claims, non-farm payrolls, home sales, and business ...

Predatory Borrowers (and Legislators)

With millions of homeowners now struggling to repay money they clearly never should have borrowed, our leaders have been righteously wagging fingers at predatory lenders who ...

Measuring National Decline

“Bush Boom Continues” trilled the headline over the Lawrence Kudlow column, as George W. Bush closed out his seventh year in office. “You can call it ...

Geithner Lays an Egg

There is nearly universal agreement that the opening salvo of the Obama Administration’s campaign to restore health to the financial system, delivered this week by new ...

The Economic Apocalypse Isn”€™t So Bad

So cheer up! Austin's essay on the distinction between "€œtragic"€ and "€œcomic"€ libertarianism was sparked, I gather, from some email conversations between the two ...

New New Nationalism

“British jobs for British workers!” thundered Gordon Brown, as he emerged from the shadow of Tony Blair to become prime minister. His populist sloganeering has now ...


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