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July 2011

July 28, 2011

The two debt-reduction plans

So House Majority Leader John Boehner has a debt reduction plan on the table. It...

July 21, 2011

The 19th Century Depression

Canadian historian Francois Furstenberg reminds us of the economic depression that America had to struggle...

July 15, 2011

Spelling and the internet

The BBC reports that Great Britain's online economy is harmed by bad spelling: An online...

July 14, 2011

The McConnell plan

It's hard to decipher what Mitch McConnell's plan to deal with the debt ceiling even...

July 12, 2011

National debt impasse

So President Obama offered $4 trillion in budgetary cuts if the Republicans would accept a...

July 04, 2011

The National Debt and the Constitution

As we wrestle with the national debt and as Congress debates over whether to raise...

June 2011

June 27, 2011

The great comic book bubble

Jonathan V. Last offers a fascinating mashup of two of my favorite topics: comic books...

June 20, 2011

How free is your state?

Check out this site from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, which gives rankings...

June 13, 2011

Is ending a bad program a tax increase?

Senator Tom Coburn, who represents my natal state of Oklahoma, is probably the biggest deficit...

June 08, 2011

Tim Pawlenty’s economic plan

GOP presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty, the former governor of Minnesota, laid out an ambitious and...

June 08, 2011

30% of health plans to be dropped under Obamacare

Another reason the new national health care bill will have a hard time working: Once...

June 06, 2011

China dumping U.S. treasuries

What if everyone stops lending the U.S. government money? China has dropped 97 percent of...

June 03, 2011

India companies hiring Americans for call centers

Free market economics has a way of evening things out. A country with low labor...

June 02, 2011

The new age of fossil fuels

Michael Lind, at Salon, no less, explodes the conventional wisdom: Are we living at the...

May 2011

May 31, 2011

Go East, young scientist

The United States is now facing a brain drain that threatens its traditional scientific and...

May 18, 2011

Strong dollar vs. weak dollar

"Strong" usually means good, and "weak" usually means bad. Ezra Klein says that those positive...

May 18, 2011

The wealthy politician as rapist

The head of the International Monetary Fund, a likely Socialist candidate for the presidency of...

May 17, 2011

Maxed out

As of yesterday, the federal government is officially maxed out on the great national credit...

May 12, 2011

Trading places with China?

China is undergoing a labor shortage due to its one child policy with its forced...

May 11, 2011

Sin tax for obesity

More creative taxation ideas, combined with the impulse for the government to make us better:...

May 11, 2011

Your thoughts for the penny

Ezra Klein highlights some proposals going around Washington that are not controversial and that everyone...

May 09, 2011

New horizons in taxation

How do you think this would go over? The Obama administration has floated a transportation...

May 03, 2011

Taxing companies out of the state

Illinois needs more money. So it has slapped more taxes on its businesses. Whereupon more...

April 2011

April 26, 2011

Where your taxes go

President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, said that taxpayers would soon be...

April 20, 2011

Who pays taxes?

A news story in the Washington Post follows the Democratic party line in complaining that...

April 19, 2011

Full faith and credit

Remember how government bonds have been considered a sure investment because they are backed by ...

April 15, 2011

Spillionaires

A new word for people who got rich from British Petroleum from the oil spill...

April 15, 2011

Spain’s Postmodern Socialism

A discussion of Spain's financial woes blames in part Prime Minister Zapatero's postmodernist worldview: Economists...

April 14, 2011

President Obama’s deficit-reduction plan

It's basically to raise taxes: President Obama called for cutting the nation’s combined budget deficit...

April 12, 2011

On the Ryan plan

Charles Krauthhammer defends Paul Ryan's budget plan, which Democrats are decrying in apocalyptic terms for...