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Category Archives: Economy
Getting Excited About Elizabeth Warren
E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post seems to have a thing for Elizabeth Warren, the wannabe Native American junior senator from Massachusetts. Dionne never tires of praising or defending Warren, even if it means setting up and knocking down a straw man, … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged big government, E.J. Dionne, economic infrastructure, Elizabeth Warren, infrastructure, liberal mind, liberals
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Higher Taxes
The New Republic’s Jonathan Cohn is positively giddy about tax day (see here). Echoing the first George Bush, Cohn wants everybody to “read his lips.” Except unlike Bush, Cohn is demanding more new taxes rather than no new taxes. Ah yes, what … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged big government, competition, Jonathan Cohn, liberal mind, taxes, welfare, welfare state
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More WSJ Hypocrisy
Kimberley Strassel of the Wall Street Journal is upset that the Federal Trade Commission is enforcing the antitrust laws (see here). This from a writer at a publication that often rails against the lawlessness of the Obama administration and the administration’s lack of respect for … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged antitrust, Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal
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Where Are The Moderate Democrats?
Pretty much the entire mainstream media and the liberals they work for are busy laying the blame for the government shutdown and stalemate over the debt ceiling at the feet of Republicans. According to the liberals, there’s a small radical faction within the … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged big government, debt ceiling, government shutdown, liberals
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Competition Deniers
In this post at The Incidental Economist, Aaron Carroll agrees that Obamacare may cause hospital layoffs, but tells us that’s to be expected because, after all, if we contain costs, there will be less money for wages and profits. And Carroll further concludes that the result would … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged Aaron Carroll, big government, central planning, competition, free markets, ObamaCare
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Embracing Central Authority
WaPo columnist Anne Applebaum sees the GOP as endangering democracy by closing the government in an attempt to stop Obamacare. In her column, Applebaum implies (see here) that those who resist Obamacare are members of an “irrational fringe” and no better than “insurgents” or “coup plotters” who should be … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged Anne Applebaum, big government, government shutdown, ObamaCare
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Prosecuting Those Responsible For The Financial Crisis
So now liberals can’t figure out why no one has been prosecuted for their role in the financial crisis. For example, Neil Irwin of Wonkblog finds it shocking that: [For] a crisis that drove the global economy off a cliff, caused millions of people … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged Benghazi, Dodd-Frank, financial crisis, Hillary Clinton, ObamaCare, Wall Street
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The Nature Of The Firm
In a rambling post at the blog The Determined Statist (aka The Incidental Economist), Harold Pollack touches on several topics that ostensibly relate to the work of Ronald Coase, a Nobel Prize winning economist who died recently at the age of 102. Pollack … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged big government, central planning, Matthew Yglesias, Ronald Coase, The Incidental Economist
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Obamacare Alternative
In two separate posts (here and here) at the blog The Incidental Economist, Aaron Carroll, a determined advocate for centrally directed healthcare, is upset and frustrated with the critics of Obamacare and suggests they propose some “sensible alternatives that actually address the policy issues.” Well, … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged Aaron Carroll, central planning, competition, health policy, ObamaCare
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Healthcare Pricing
A recent post at the blog Project Millennial outlines some of the issues relating to health-care as understood by liberals. According to the post, healthcare prices are a “total mess” because “list prices” vary immensely from provider to provider and the price … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged competition, health policy, healthcare costs, healthcare prices, price controls, Project Millennial
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