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Brad’s Draft Lecture

…since people are irrationally unwilling to bear risk. Oh my not just Greenspanian but a Straussian believer in noble welfare enhancing lies. I might have found the argument convincing in…

The Leaky Bucket Fallacy

…to the recipient is less than the dollar cost to the taxpayer. If the recipient needs money more than the taxpayer, the transfer can increase average welfare, but not as…

Can the U.S. Government do anything right ?

…high enough price that farmers will be busy growing it and not have time for opium. The problem is that that would be welfare and not for US farmers. So…

Progress Report on my book

…Net Worth, Homeownership, Owner’s Equity Chapter 6. Traditional Republican IssuesNational Defense, The Size of Government, Taxes, Washington v. the States, The National Endowment for the Arts, Welfare Interlude: What Is…

A Response to Megan McArdle, Again (by cactus)

…of the 1990s, I spent most of the decade listening to my genuinely left-wing friends weep that he’d betrayed them. Remember Edelman’s resigning in protest of welfare reform? I thought…

What to do now with $50,000 cash??

…one buy Ford at $2/share, swiss francs, some gold? As writers in newspapers and blogs analyze the state of the economy, what do they really think concerning their own welfare?…

A new whittle

…WW II Army Air Force fame) is the latest capability dream whittling away US resources, and stopping any war machine corporate welfare worries about Obama making any change in Washington….

UnReal Business Cycle

…defer it. Because the alternatives are either direct government unemployment benefits on top of a decrease in GDP or a decline in social welfare with generational implications. Another factor may…