Do you remember the Democrat conspiracy theory that said Republicans wanted to cut taxes to "starve" government (aka starving the beast) and eventually get rid of all social programs due to a lack of money? Is it possible that President Barack Obama and the Democrats are trying to destroy the stock market in order to […]
It's been noted by many that President Obama's budget is different from that of his predecessor only in emphasis, not technique. In his radio talk, Obama did not address the charge that his plans are simply too expensive. But he reasserted his commitment to fiscal discipline, saying his budget team has "identified $2 trillion worth […]
I've noted before that the Republican Study Committee has a lot of good ideas on providing the economy a needed kick-start. Some conservative commentators have also suggested cutting the payroll tax -- something that would be felt by rich and poor alike and would also help businesses to keep employing workers. Unfortunately, it doesn't look […]
Economist/professor Gregory Mankiw takes note of how New York Times columnist Paul Krugman defines his terms. In a post about the Obama economic team titled The Grownups are Coming, Paul Krugman writes: Seriously, isn’t it amazing just how impressive the people being named to key positions in the Obama administration seem? Bye-bye hacks and cronies, […]
Paul Krugman has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics. The consensus appears to be that he deserves it for his pre-punditry work. I had a discussion with National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru a few years back when he was visiting San Diego as the starting point for one of the magazine's cruises. One of the […]
Paul Krugman's latest bit of political hackery is so transparently dishonest that you almost wish the Adviser from Enron had even more space to spread his manure. It's 3 a.m., a few months into 2009, and the phone in the White House rings. Several big hedge funds are about to fail, says the voice on […]
This is funny. (via Best of the Web Today) In a debate on whether or not the U.S. government should fund health care, Krugman tried to use some uncooperative Canadians to make his point. Krugman: --and I wanted to ask, actually two questions, to the audience. First, how many Canadians, would Canadians in the room […]
Tom Firey over at the Cato Institute took a look at Paul Krugman's Monday column and compared Krugman's so-called "factual" statements with the actual facts. Krugman doesn't come out looking good on several counts. First, in what appears to be the norm for employees of The New York Times, Krugman addresses Reagan-era economic policies without […]
I generally don't turn down free money. But if the government really didn't need my $800, then it shouldn't have taken it in the first place. I'd also feel better about a rebate check if President Bush demonstrated some intestinal fortitude and declined to fund a bunch of congressional earmarks. A couple of related, but […]
You probably heard that The New York Times has decided to diversify the voices on its editorial page by adding Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol as a columnist. This has caused no end of consternation inside the liberal bubble because Kristol's hiring raises the number of conservative voices on that page to 1 1/2 -- […]