…academics [emphasis added] who would be superb chief economists at the White House. I am thinking of talented people like Brian Wesbury of Chicago, Richard Vedder of Ohio University, and…
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Market Power, Minimum Wages, and the Sins of Friedmania
…from some kind of intellectual property–think Apple and the financial industry. The other, by Richard Posner, talks about the importance of national security and minimizes the need for a minimum…
Cruz, Tea Party, Hostage-Taking Budget Tactics (and the IRS)
…the patent-medicine folks. Newsmax, a principal Tea Party news organ, is filled daily with claims about cures for everything from diabetes to Alzheimer’s. Charles J. Reid, P.T. Barnum, Joe McCarthy,…
The GOP Default Enthusiasts
…do without any pay til Congress decides you’re worth paying again–and listening to the likes of Rand Paul, Richard Burr and the others who think the shutdown is doing no…
Because Piling On Is Sometimes Necessary
I was going to leave Richard Cohen alone: Gawker, LG&M, Dr. Black, etc. etc. all covered him. There’s nothing to say that Katherine Weymouth didn’t already, save possibly that I’m…
Cooperatives… The next generations must have them.
Link to video here. Richard Wolff is on fire here. He is explaining the cooperative model and why it will save the US. I have never seen a better video…
“Does Chief Justice John Roberts show a certain casualness about the truth?”
Each week I get an email from Slate telling me what the latest articles are there, this one caught my attention; Richard Posner on Roberts” For those of you who…
It’s long, long, LONG past time for Congress to restructure the Judicial Misconduct Complaint mechanism so that it’s no longer a comically flagrant sham designed and controlled completely by members of the federal judiciary. Really. It’s long, long, long, long past time.
…of the very serious (and accurate) allegations in that part of this post, I want to make clear that the federal appellate judge I’m referring to is not Richard Posner….
JEB the Vulcan; the 90’s Roots of the Iraq War
…Khalilzad, William Kristol, Richard Perle, Peter W. Rodman, Donald Rumsfeld, William Schneider, Jr., Vin Weber, Paul Wolfowitz, R. James Woolsey, Robert B. Zoellick Which leads to my first claim: I…
Shopping Around . . .
…is just an opportunity to “shop around” and the premium increases may not be big anyway in dollars and cents. “Looking past the scary headlines” as Richard Mayhew of Balloon…