Anybody with an IQ above room temperature understands that companies only hire workers when they expect to generate net revenue (i.e., the total receipts associated with a new worker are expected to be higher than the total costs). That’s why it was so reprehensible for Congress to approve a 40-percent hike in the minimum wage [...]
Archive for July 24th, 2010
Bush, Pelosi, and Reid Deserve Scorn for Destroying Jobs for Teenagers
Posted in Bush, Economics, Jobs, Minimum Wage, Pelosi, Unemployment, tagged Bush, Joblessness, Jobs, Minimum Wage Laws, Pelosi, Reid, Unemployment on July 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Europe’s Dishonest “Stress Test” for Banks
Posted in Bailout, Euro, Europe, European Commission, Financial Crisis, tagged Bailouts, Euro, Europe, European Union, Financial Crisis, Stress Tests on July 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The Wall Street Journal correctly pulls aside the veil and exposes the dubious gimmick that European politicians used to declare that banks are reasonably health. To put it bluntly, they assumed no government would ever default, which really means that the stress test was a fraud or German taxpayers are now on the chopping block [...]
The Founding Fathers Would Be Even More Horrified by Today’s Spending
Posted in Debt, Deficit, Fiscal Policy, Government Spending, tagged Debt, Deficit, Fiscal Policy, Government Spending on July 24, 2010 | 8 Comments »
The Washington Examiner explains that America’s Founders would be aghast to see how modern politicians have accumulated $trillions of debt. That may be true, but the editorial is nonetheless unsatisfactory because it’s quite likely that the founders would be even more horrified by the amount of spending. After all, the Constitution permitted debt, but Article [...]