| The Cato Institute’s Dan “Bulldog” Mitchell discusses — in this short video — the fiscal train wreck called “health-care reform.“ | |
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| Here’s a letter that I sent to the Wall Street Journal:
Peter Navarro asserts that “China mops up vast sums of export dollars through sterilization efforts that are tantamount to forced... | |
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| I know. This (HT: Drudge) is how “the system” works. I’m supposed to understand it. But I don’t. It’s a lousy system.
On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section... | |
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The narrative is more important than the facts. People like the narrative because it pleases them. Not because it’s true. Truth is elusive.
But evidence and facts do matter.
So when... | |
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| In the current New Yorker, James Surowiecki is properly critical of the economic distortions introduced by taxing debt-financed income much more lightly than taxing equity-financed income.
But his... | |
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| Here’s a letter that I sent this morning to the Washington Post:
Harold Meyerson is confused about U.S. trade with China (”A marriage made in China,” Nov. 18).
As incontrovertible... | |
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| I’m attending now the 27th annual Cato Institute Monetary Conference.
Just before the conference kicked off this morning at 9am (EST), The Economist’s Zanny Minton Beddoes suggested that... | |
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| Here’s a letter that I sent yesterday to the Washington Post:
Harold Meyerson’s discussion of U.S. trade with China is a buffet of errors (”A marriage made in China,” Nov.... | |
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| Here’s a letter that I sent yesterday to the Wall Street Journal:
John Micetich argues that “if we add up the bailouts to all financial firms, we’re well over $1 trillion, at least... | |
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| There are advantage to universal standards. The most important is economies of scale–once you learn the standard, it applies everywhere. But the disadvantages are subtle and usually much... | |
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