This MSNBC interview was halfway through before I got a chance to talk, so I was beginning to think I was a victim of bias, but then the host mentioned Greece degenerating like a scene out of Atlas Shrugged. I’m not sure what to think, but I did get in some good shots at Keynesianism. I [...]
Archive for July 15th, 2010
Jousting on MSNBC (with a libertarian host?)
Posted in Big Government, Debt, Deficit, Government Spending, Keynes, Keynesian, News Appearance, Tax Increase, Taxation, tagged Big Government, Debt, Deficit, Keynesian Economics, News Appearance on July 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Obamanomics and my Seven Steamy Nights with the Gals from Victoria’s Secret
Posted in Government Spending, Jobs, Keynes, Keynesian, Obama, stimulus, Unemployment, tagged Government Spending, Jobs, Keynes, Keynesian Economics, Keynesianism, Obama, stimulus, Unemployment on July 15, 2010 | 10 Comments »
The White House is claiming that the so-called stimulus created between 2.5 million and 3.6 million jobs even though total employment has dropped by more than 2.3 million since Obama took office. The Administration justifies this legerdemain by asserting that the economy actually would have lost about 5 million jobs without the new government spending. [...]
The War on Drugs Means Bigger Government and More Crime
Posted in Crime, Drug War, tagged Big Government, Crime, Drug War, Statism on July 15, 2010 | 9 Comments »
There are some things I don’t like about this video (the implication that maybe some of the money we’re wasting in the War on Drugs should instead be wasted on other programs), and I also wonder how important it is to scale back the welfare state before making drugs legal, but the core message is [...]