President’s don’t create jobs. Jobs are created as a consequence of wealth creation, so if the country begins to create more wealth, it will create more jobs. The question then becomes, how is wealth created? Go back to Econ 101 folks – but I bet most of you can’t even answer this most basic question [...]
I watched some of the speechifying from the Tea Party convention this weekend (as much as I could stomach) which showed that it is the new home (and probably only the temporary one) of the ‘moral majority’ types from the Republican party. You know, the big C Conservatives, who are mostly Christian evangelicals, mostly white [...]
The Collectivist-Utopians (my new name for Progressives) lament the current economic environment as something that the government must ‘fix’, we must ‘do stimulus’ (a statement that only breathless policy wonks who haven’t had a real job in their lives can say) or we must prevent economic contractions at all costs. The Libertarians (me, for example) [...]
Pew Research finds declining enthusiasm for capitalism.
