by Henry Oliner | May 31, 2015 | Economics
Jeff Jacoby in The Boston Globe explains basic economics to the incredibly ignorant Bernie Sanders in It’s socialism, not deodorant, that starves the poor excerpts: “You don’t necessarily need a choice of 23 underarm spray deodorants or of 18...
by Henry Oliner | May 31, 2015 | Foreign policy
from the New York Times,A Closer Look at Hillary Clinton’s Emails on Benghazi by Michale Schmidt: From 2011 to 2012, Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime friend and confidant who was a senior adviser to Mrs. Clinton during her 2008 presidential campaign, sent her at least 25...
by Henry Oliner | May 30, 2015 | Economics
Martin Feldstein writes The U.S. Underestimates Growth in The Wall Street Journal: Americans are enjoying faster real income growth than the official statistics indicate, but we can achieve even faster growth with more capital accumulation, increased labor-force...
by Henry Oliner | May 29, 2015 | Economics
William McGurn writes The Poverty Preening of Professor Obama in The Wall Street Journal: Excerpt: Now, leave aside the argument of whether poverty owes more to a lack of government spending or to family structure and other social breakdowns. Truth is, it’s simply...
by Henry Oliner | May 28, 2015 | Economics
from Bernie Sanders’s Dark Age Economics by Kevin Williamson in The National Review excerpts: It is a facet of the belief that free markets are irrational, and that if reason could be imposed on markets — which is to say, if reason could be imposed on free human...
