Brian Wesbury and Robert Stein have a post at Forbes.com about a recent inteview with Gary Becker in the Wall Street Journal. Here’s a link to the Becker interview if you want to read it. Becker is a free market guy and its an interesting interview. Wesbury and Stein’s article is basically a nothing; Becker [...]
President Obama’s new offshore drilling plan is taking flak from both sides of the aisle. He must be doing something right:
WASHINGTON —President Obama’s proposal to open vast expanses of American coastlines to oil and natural gas drilling drew criticism from both sides in the drilling debate.
The plan, which Mr. Obama said would balance the need [...]
Eminent economists on the “stimulus”:
The term “shovel ready” seems to have disappeared from the language just as quickly as it arrived. The idea that greater public borrowing would leverage capital expenditures to put the U.S. back to full employment is now replaced by boasts that Washington has saved Albany, Springfield and Sacramento from laying-off government [...]
Arnold Kling on a date that will live in infamy:
For many Americans, March 21, 2010, is a date that will live in infamy. Unlike Pearl Harbor or the September 11, 2001, attacks, which offended nearly all Americans, the health care legislation only angered a significant proportion of the population. However, those of us who are [...]
