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April 2009

April 03, 2009

De Tocqueville on America’s economic malaise

We have earlier blogged about Alexis de Toqueville, the 19th century French tourist who nailed...

April 01, 2009

If you lose your job, the car companies will pick up your payments

In some depression-era marketing, Ford and GM have announced a program wherein if you buy...

April 01, 2009

The government will fix your car

After firing the CEO of General Motors--a stunning intrusion of state power into a private...

March 2009

March 31, 2009

British conservative smacks down the bailout mentality

If you haven't yet seen this clip, you need to. It shows Daniel Hannen, a...

March 31, 2009

Another European political model

If we have to be like the Europeans, perhaps we should consider one of their...

March 30, 2009

What is Social Democracy?

It is widely being said--including approvingly by liberals--that the Obama administration is adopting the governmental...

March 27, 2009

The European mentality

More from Charles Murray, who cites "journalistic and scholarly accounts of a spreading European mentality...

March 27, 2009

Leftist patron is cashing in on the economic crisis

Not all investors are losing money in the current financial collapse. Certain hedge funds managers...

March 26, 2009

The Europe Syndrome

So America is abandoning its traditional principles of limited government and free enterprise economics in...

March 26, 2009

The Charity Tax

Harvard economist Martin Feldstein cites research showing that when the cost of giving goes up,...

March 24, 2009

The Power to Seize Firms

From The Washington Post: The Obama administration is considering asking Congress to give the Treasury...

March 23, 2009

“Das Kapital” the Musical

A Chinese production company is turning "Das Kapital"--the treatise by Marx and Engels that expounds...

March 20, 2009

Demagoguing the Bailout

My distaste for the AIG bonuses is related to my bigger distaste for the whole...

March 19, 2009

Thwarting creative destruction

Logan Delany reminds us that free markets must both build and destroy, and that thwarting...

March 13, 2009

What magistrates and subjects owe each other

Having first discussed vocations in the estate of the church, the Table of Duties in...

March 12, 2009

Taxpayers as the minority

In the midst of a searching, detailed criticism of President Obama's economic policies that is...

March 11, 2009

Obama’s bait and switch

Charles Krauthhammer points out that the President's policy initiatives have NOTHING to do with addressing...

March 05, 2009

A different kind of conservatism

There is a kind of conservatism that is against big business, as well as big...

March 04, 2009

For and against the Obama economy

I've been critical on this blog of how President Obama is trying to fix the...

March 04, 2009

Pro-budget: It’s more Christian

Jim Wallis, the liberal evangelical who edits Sojourners, gives what he calls , "Our Moral...

March 04, 2009

Anti-Budget: It’s stifling recovery

The Wall Street Journal argues that President Obama's bailouts, stimulus, and budget are making the...

March 02, 2009

Just take everything over $75,000

Thanks to Peter Leavitt for alerting us to this really scary statistic from Mark Steyn:...

March 02, 2009

Don’t make more than $250,000

According to President Obama's tax proposals, if you make $250,000 or more, your tax rate...

March 02, 2009

Discourse on Voluntary Servitude

We posted about how Alexis de Toqueville was prescient about issues we are facing today....

February 2009

February 26, 2009

Taxing and Spending

President Obama's budget is going all out. From Obama Delivers $3.6 Trillion Budget Blueprint -...

February 26, 2009

Back to doing it ourselves

The economic downturn is bringing out that old virtue of self-reliance. From washingtonpost.com: The economic...

February 24, 2009

Zimbabwe’s stimulus plan

That sad, messed-up nation of Zimbabwe, whose unemployment rate is 94%, finally legalized purchases in...

February 17, 2009

Throwing money out of an airplane

John Maynard Keynes, the New Deal era economist whose theories that the government can and...

February 16, 2009

The Neo Deal? The Big Deal? The Raw Deal?

Congress has passed the stimulus package. The Washington Post notes that it is much larger...

February 13, 2009

Want to read the stimulus bill?

It's 1,434 pages long. If you don't have to read that much, you can at...