Not years. Months. We really need to be thinking about climate control in general, instead of how to punish carbon emitters.
Category Archives: Economics
Creating A Permanent Underclass
Smarter, Not Bigger Stimulus
I have some more advice for Barack Obama that, like Joel Kotkin’s, he will be constitutionally unable to take, over at PJM today.
The Failed Stimulus
More proof that government spending doesn’t do much for job creation.
One reason unemployment continues to rise may be that stimulus funds did not target high-unemployment states.
You don’t say.
If The IRS And Medicare Had A Baby
…it would look like this.
I think that this is one of those rare cases where an abortion is the only reasonable option.
Hope And Change
…and 10.2% unemployment:
Naturally, according to the “experts” it’s more than expected.
It’s not more than I expected. I’m actually surprised it’s not worse, considering how they’ve been making war on business and vandalizing the economy in general.
None Of The Above
NASA Watch has a poll up on what kind of heavy lifter NASA should build. I’ve decided to do my own, proper poll:
[Mid-afternoon update]
Wow, not much love for either flavor of Ares, at least from my readers. So far, the vast majority goes for “none of the above.”
Advice For CA Taxpayers
Fight back against the thieves in Sacramento. Refile your state W-4 ASAP.
The Inherited Deficits Fallacy
Keith Hennessy on Barack Obama’s Bart Simpson defense.
I would add that it’s not possible to know to what degree “tax cuts” boosted the deficit, because they weren’t “tax cuts.” They were tax rate cuts, and they may have actually reduced it by boosting the economy and incomes.
A Free-Market Party?
The rise of free-market populism in this country finally has manifested in an election. And judging from the hyperbolic reactions, you know it’s a political movement with staying power.
When tepid, traditional conservative candidate Doug Hoffman knocked off liberal Republican Dede Scozzafava—a candidate who was supported by nearly every boogeyman in the GOP handbook—you might have thought that the rabble had stormed the Bastille.
Sophisticated New York Times columnist Frank Rich called the event “a riotous and bloody national G.O.P. civil war” and compared the conservative surge to a murderous Stalinist purge. (Remarkably, the esteemed wordsmith failed to unleash similar histrionic language when one-time-Democrat Sen. Joe Lieberman met the same fate.)
Purging moderates is indeed a self-destructive strategy for any national party. But running a party without any litmus tests on the central issue of the economy seems to be similarly self-defeating.
The most impressive trick played by Rich and other liberals, though, is creating a narrative wherein the ones attempting to fundamentally reconfigure the American economy are cast as the moderates.
The nearly powerless who stand in their way? Well, they play the part of Stalinists.
But of course, as Orwell pointed out, the real Stalinists are the people who torture the language like Frank Rich does.