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The ATM Myth

…“thinking” from the President—who has had Austan Goolsbee, Larry Summers, Peter Orszag, Alan Kreuger, Jason Furman, Jason Bernstein, and several others (even dissing Christina Romer, as the Now-Sainted-by-the-Press-for-his-Fairness-to-Women Obama explicitly…

The contrarian addiction

…protects the public from food-borne illnesses. It issues nutritional advice and drug labeling guidelines. It polices false medical claims on packaging and in advertisements. It safeguards about one in every…

Millennials like socialism — until they get jobs. Or until a pollster tells them that it would mean tax increases but doesn’t tell them, for example, that the tax increases would replace healthcare insurance premiums and out-of-pocket medical expenses. And doesn’t tell them that “more government services” means something other than, say, trash collection twice a week instead of once a week.

…back in 1967 had to begin paying for through a tax. And that unleaded drinking water and safe bridges are two other government services. Sometimes. ____ UPDATE: Reader Jason and…

Time to move beyond "Nothing" on Social Security?

…Administration except Jared Bernstein and maybe Jason Furman. Against that we have calls from Hassett and Biggs at AEI and their apparent stenographers Montgomery and Hiatt at the WaPo insisting…