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Tyler Cowen:
The new jobs report: The “big loser” here?: Old Keynesianism. You really can get a recovery when the real shocks are moderately positive. You will note, as we have been told many many times by many many sources, fiscal and monetary policy have not been ...
John Maynard Keynes (1936):
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, chapter 32: the essence of the situation is to be found, nevertheless, in the collapse in the marginal efficiency of capital, particularly in the case of those types of capital which have been contributing most ...
We’ve been following the story of the Church’s response to the assault perpetrated by the Obamacare regulation on “preventive care” with a religious exemption so narrow that will require most Catholic institutions to comply. In the new issue of the Weekly Standard Jonathan Last provides
Scott wrote yesterday about President Obama’s attempt to enlist Jesus in his campaign for higher taxes: “But for me as a Christian, it also coincides with Jesus’s teaching that ‘for unto whom much is given, much shall be required.’” In drawing this equivalence, Obama implicitly substituted the ...
Diligent searching have not turned up a copy of Hayek's letter to which this is a reply:
Letter from Margaret Thatcher to Friedrich Hayek: February 17, 1982
Thank you for your letter of 5 February. I was very glad that you able to attend ...
"[I]t was to head off a return of the old demons (unemployment, Fascism, German militarism, war, revolution) that western Europe took the new path with which we are now familiar. Post-national, welfare-state, cooperative, pacific Europe was not born of the optimistic, ambitious, forward-looking project imagined in fond retrospect by ...
Liberals tell us that the most important principle is the separation of church and state. That applies, of course, only until liberals want to enlist the church in support of the state. The state, in their view, is the real church. So Michael Ramirez envisions our president ...
Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress have set a new standard of irresponsibility: for the third year in a row, Harry Reid announced that he would not allow a vote on a FY 2013 budget to come to the floor of the Senate. “We do not need ...
The administration trumpets the fact that nonfarm payrolls increased by 243,000 in January, dropping the unemployment rate to 8.3%, only .5% higher than when Barack Obama took office. This is what counts as good news in the beleaguered West Wing!
But how good was today’s news, really? What ...
BetseyStevenson Betsey Stevenson It's good news! RT @bethmorgan It's that "Betsey's Employment Report" time of the month. Let me get a good bottle of wine and some tissues. 1 hour ago Retweeted by delong
justinwolfers Justin Wolfers @ @KarenDynan @DLeonhardt @TedGayer: Ah, so you are making the right choice... Please tell ...
Another great story from the Daily Mail:
Students step over ‘rivers of urine’ after green bathrooms plan for waterless urinals turns a high school yellow… and it will cost $500,000 to fix
Students at a high school in Boca Raton, Florida, must step over rivers of urine and endure ...
BLS:
Employment Situation Summary: Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 243,000 in January, and the unemployment rate decreased to 8.3 percent….
The unemployment rate declined ...
President Obama advertised some big endorsements for his tax-the-rich more policies and class warfare reelection strategy yesterday. In a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast — text here, video below — Obama made the case that Jesus, Muhammad, Moses and Plato (?!) are all on ...
O’Sullivan’s First Law, named for John O’Sullivan, former editor of National Review, speechwriter for Margaret Thatcher, and author of the fine book The President, The Pope, and the Prime Minister, goes as follows: Any institution that is not explicitly right wing will become left wing over time. ...
"He was not a bad fellow, no worse than most and probably better than some, and not a bad ballplayer neither when they give him a chance, when they laid off him long enough.
"From here on in I rag nobody."
--Mark Harris, Bang the Drum Slowly
...Eric Holder appeared before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today, and received what can charitably be called a hostile reception. He was grilled by Republican members over everything from Fast and Furious–the intended subject of the hearing–to the Marc Rich pardon. I haven’t had time to ...