When I saw this I just pictured President Bush doing it and started laughing out loud. Remarks by the President to the Press Pool Nothin' Fancy Cafe Roswell, New Mexico 11:25 A.M. MST THE PRESIDENT: I need some ribs. Q Mr. President, how are you? THE PRESIDENT: I'm hungry and I'm going to order some […]
Yesterday's Nicholas Kristof column is a must-read for the anti-globalization, anti-trade, left-wing fringe. I've written before that cheap labor is the most valuable resource of many poor nations, and Kristof vividly illustrates this point. Cambodia has a fair trade system and promotes itself as an enlightened garment producer. That's great. But if the U.S. tries […]
New York Times most irrelevant columnist has written yet another column warning that the U.S. economy is becoming the spitting image of a failing Third World nation, specifically Argentina. Nothing new here. Truth is, Krugman is losing it. It's one thing to try and peddle this pap when the economy is in a mild recession, […]
I'm watching a replay of today's Democrat presidential candidate debate -- and it isn't pretty. It's become obvious to me why these forums are increasingly useless; if you're looking for truth, you won't find it in the debates. Some of these loons are making statements which are demonstrably false and no one -- not the […]
On the day the NASDAQ closed above 2,000 for the first time in 21 months, The New York Times' most irrelevant columnist, Paul Krugman, comes out with a column designed to show that the economy is not improving. To quote, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Krugman's point is: Everything you know is wrong Black is white, up […]
National Review's Dave Kopel and Carlo Stagnaro take a look at the economic suicide some European countries would be making if they implemented Kyoto-style emission controls. Dr. Margo Thorning performed a study about four European countries [link requires Acrobat Reader] and estimated that the Kyoto Protocol would have a strong negative impact on the GNP […]
Yes, with the economy continuing to soar, Democrats are resorting to ever-more desperate tactics to actually put a damper on the recovery and get those unemployment numbers up.
Sunday's Washington Post features an article announcing the creation of a flat tax in Iraq. The article features a colorful history of the flat tax idea and plenty of quotes from U.S.-based flat-tax supporters. The idea also gets a couple of bricks thrown at it, one by an unnamed "Middle East expert," and the other […]
Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch writes that the media, pundits and Bush-haters are convinced, for a variety of reasons, that the economy can't be getting better. Now, I'm not suggesting "irrational exuberance" again. First of all, it's not warranted (yet), and giddiness about the economy didn't really help last time. And I'm also not […]
Economic numbers are much better than expected, and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman cautions that this growth rate cannot be sustained. There's really little doubt that the economy cannot sustain an astronomic 7.2 percent quarterly growth in the GDP. So Krugman's not really going out on a limb, but there's also an admission in […]