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Public Works on a Vast Scale?

…“We need action — and action now,” Mr. Obama said in an address broadcast Saturday morning on radio and YouTube…. It would cover a range of programs to expand broadband…

Ross Douthat and the cocoon

…maybe it was the deregulation of interstate trucking via the motor carrier act of 1980 . Or maybe it was the phased deregulation of oil prices which began on April…

How to Build an Economic Model

…middle of the day. Even if you would be required “only” to walk down a heavily-used interstate highway with no shoulder or sidewalks, discretion may be the better part of…

de novo

…December 10 COMMITTEE ACTION: REPORTED BY A RECORD VOTE OF 8-3 on Thursday December 10, 2009. FLOOR ACTION: SUMMARY OF AMENDMENTS TO BE MADE IN ORDER Frank (MA) item 12:…

How to be a Communist and a Fascist at the Same Time

…term for the Good Government movement). For people who followed Hayek the Interstate Highway System was not an instrument for good, the fact that it was government initiated, funded and…

Small and big boxes

…a two condo house. I have never figured out what the costs actually are between a nearby local store and another five miles away, nor the worth of familiar courtesy…

Pretending to be in control of our destiny

…is is an issue that could produce a lot of “leakage”. We could offset that, either concurrently or subsequently. Spending a ton of money modernizing the interstate system while leaving…

It’s All About the Governors

…provided funding to repair the state’s crumbling infrastructure — including, yes, that Interstate 35W bridge” and may have lied about the status of the bridge in public. Such difficult choices….

Has it begun?

…on the interstate bankrate. Unlimited borrowing being authorized to ‘market participants’ and ‘primary dealers’ from the Fed. How are reasonable arguments even in the running? I sure hope it works….