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A Finger Exercise for Dr. Black

infrastructure improvements: the 155th Street bridge that I used to walk to games over hasn’t been widened, the FDR and the Harlem River Drive are still the same, the bridges…

WHAT KOTLIKOFF (REALLY) SAID

…provide the infrastructure that protects our ability to make money in the first place. I don’t know if we would feel safe in a country with a 40% smaller defense…

Kudlow’s Komedy Kapers (Cross-post)

infrastructure spending, undoubtedly in the form of an infrastructure bank. That’s a terrible idea. It’s borrowed from Latin America, where bloated and corrupt bureaucratic construction agencies have helped bankrupt any…

Sensible Tax Reform

…investment with broad public benefits — then that sort of investment should be done by public authority, funded by an infrastructure bank. Thus as a general rule fixed assets —…

Thoughts on Detroit

…local government, and yesterday dropped the bomb, a massive racketerring indictment of Kilpatrick, his father and several political operatives. In a city where infrastructure is literally collapsing in front of…