Normally I hate to pass along others’ thoughts without commentary, but this one strikes right to the heart of an issue in a way that requires no further thought. Regarding the question of whether massive government spending will stimulate the economy, Tad DeHaven over at Cato@Liberty has this response:
But isn’t spending tons of money […]
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Few topics seem to trigger strong emotions like the question of immigration. The body of classical liberal and libertarian philosophy is full of people who espouse laissez-faire positions on the movements of goods and investment across borders, then completely reverse this position when it comes to the free movement of people. Much of the opposition […]
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Based on Brad’s recent post about the stimulus plan and the comments to it, I’ve come up with a plan that puts money in the hands where it can do some good, ours, while allowing the politicians in Washington to claim they’ve done something.
Here are my starting assumptions:
1) The plan must be revenue neutral […]
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Gold Coast, Australia. January 2008. Valencia, Spain. January 2008. Gdansk, Poland. February 2008. Les Baux-de-Provence, France. March 2008. Munich, Germany. April 2008. Buenos Aires, Argentina. April 2008. Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay. May 2008. Santiago de Chile. May 2008. Cataratas do Iguaçu, Brazil, May 2008. Stockholm, Sweden. May 2008. Prora, Germany. June 2008. Warsaw, Poland. June 2008. Sofia, Bulgaria. August 2008. Ben Lawers, Scotland. September 2008. Taipa, Macau. October 2008. Yantian, China. October 2008. Hong…
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Kevin Drum, in response to a Tyler Cowen post explaining that we have very little evidence that fiscal stimulus actually works, suggests we try it anyway:
But do we need examples? I’d argue that we’re basically in terra incognita today. In the postwar era, we’ve virtually never seen an industrialized country, let alone the whole world, […]
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Another milestone is reached as channels of distribution change: 2008 will be seen as a landmark year in global communications in the textbooks of 2100 – it was the year that the internet finally surpassed what was once considered an unassailable bastion of main media, newspapers, as the leading source of national and international news in America. The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press is an independent opinion research group that studies…
From Samizdata.net
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There are many reasons for my decline in Samizdata productivity during the last year or two. The feeling that I had said a lot of what I had to say, and the feeling that, me having said it, the world seemed disinclined to listen very carefully to it were but two that spring to mind. And then there is the fact – no mere feeling – that professional journalists have become rather less snooty about…
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There are many reasons for my decline in Samizdata productivity during the last year or two. The feeling that I had said a lot of what I had to say, and the feeling that, me having said it, the world seemed disinclined to listen very carefully to it were but two that spring to mind. And then there is the fact – no mere feeling – that professional journalists have become rather less snooty about…
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Dominic Lawson writes a good deal of sense about proposals to to use public funds in the UK and US to rescue various stricken car manufacturers, such as Jaguar and GM. Like Mr Lawson, I cannot quite see how the average UK voter, who can barely afford a Jaguar car, feels about handing over money to ensure that these cars stay in business, and certainly not if a prize political creep such as Peter Mandelson…
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Scientists are planning to ignite a tiny Man-made star, according to this Daily Telegraph article. I wonder if the scientists or the journalists writing on their activities have seen the film, Sunshine, about which reviews have been mixed?…
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