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The Schwarzenegger Recovery?

…wife noted as she watched it, it was as goofy as Zell Miller’s was insane. But why did we replace Gray Davis with Arnold Schwarzenegger? As I recall, he promised…

Bruce Bartlett on the Alleged Housing Bubble

…historically low levels? Economist Arnold Kling points out that much depends on whether market rates rise because of inflationary expectations or because real rates are rising because of an increased…

A New Economic Theory

…Interest and Money” split the academic world and changed the way governments look at their economies has such a weighty treatise been posited. Yet California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made it…

No Sh*t SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (news – web sites) declared California in a fiscal crisis Thursday and invoked emergency powers so he could impose $150 million in…

Secretary John Snow

…Arnie’s coup in CA. They went right to the top (almost), and asked Treasury Secretary John Snow. NEW YORK (CBS.MW) — If Governor-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger is hoping for help cleaning…

…raised $500,000 to air anti-Schwarzenegger ads: Dear MoveOn member, 24 hours ago, we launched an emergency ad campaign to tell California voters the recent revelations about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s life and…

Six Through Ten 6. Benedict Arnold. This, from his actual letter to the British, is truly low, and readily explains his inclusion in my twenty worst list: “On the 13th…

…than George Wallace, or whether Benedict Arnold or Aldrich Ames was the greater traitor. One more note: I intentionally excluded murderers and even assassins, choosing instead to focus mostly on…