by Henry Oliner | Jun 30, 2010 | Economics, Politics
Hard core party loyalists who damned Bush for his record deficit spending seem quiet about the multiples of prior deficits the Obama Administration has accumulated . Rather than apply the same standards to their president, they question where the Republicans fiscal...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 27, 2010 | Economics
Jonah Goldberg writes in National Review Online, Capitalism vs Capitalists Excerpts: “Every ten years I quote the same adage from the late Austrian analyst Willi Schlamm, ….. ‘The trouble with socialism is socialism. The trouble with capitalism is...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 25, 2010 | Culture
“Whenever you hear a snotty (and frustrated) European middlebrow presenting his stereotypes about Americans, he will often describe them as “uncultured,” “unintellectual,” and “poor in math” because, unlike his peers, Americans are not into equation drills and the...
by Henry Oliner | Jun 23, 2010 | Economics
“As the mortgage crisis unfolded it soon became clear that a different Bush was in charge. As late as the spring of 2008, only the Bear “hedge funds” and a bunch of mortgage originators had been all;owed to die. No institution with any prestige or political clout went...
