by Henry Oliner | Oct 29, 2013 | Health Care
Charles Cook writes in National Review Online The Single-Payer Fantasy. Excerpt: Reassuring as this tale might be to those who are worriedly surveying the damage that Healthcare.gov has wrought upon their project, it remains self-evidently absurd. Obamacare was...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 28, 2013 | Politics
Daniel Greenfield writes in his excellent blog Sultan Knish, Government is Magic. Excerpts: Our technocracy is detached from competence. It’s not the technocracy of engineers, but of “thinkers” who read Malcolm Gladwell and Thomas Friedman and watch...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 28, 2013 | Economics
From the Washington Post, Robert Samuelson writes The Greenspan Paradox. Excerpts: But there was an unrecognized downside: With a less-risky economy, people — homeowners, bankers, investment managers — concluded they could do things once considered more risky....
by Henry Oliner | Oct 27, 2013 | Politics
From The Weekly Standard, Killing Obamacare by Jay Cost: It was the success of the progressives in World War I that inspired Franklin Roosevelt—Wilson’s assistant secretary of the Navy—to treat the Great Depression as a national emergency akin to the Great War....
by Henry Oliner | Oct 27, 2013 | Politics
Political projects by definition exist to mandate outcomes that are different than those that people would choose for themselves if left to their own devices. It was for this reason that the economist Murray Rothbard famously argued that political action by logical...
