by Henry Oliner | Nov 30, 2019 | Economics, Politics, Progressivism
from The Library of Economics and Liberty, How We Failed Our Economics Students and Caused Low Government Approval Ratings by Russell S. Sobel: These shortcomings happen when individuals in the public sector (voters, bureaucrats, legislators, government employees,...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 29, 2019 | Politics, Progressivism
From The Wall Street Journal’s William McGurn, Making Capitalism Great Again? Experience, moreover, also tells us that when competition is tethered the result isn’t cooperation. It’s collusion. Indeed, Sens. Warren and Rubio would both find no more steadfast...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 28, 2019 | Politics, Progressivism
from Jonah Goldberg at National Review, Calls for National Unity Mask Ideological Ambition: But politics in a republic is almost never about unity. Rather, politics is the art of negotiating differences. Democracy is about disagreement, not agreement. When...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 27, 2019 | Economics, Politics, Progressivism
From The Wall Street Journal’s William McGurn, Making Capitalism Great Again? We can likewise haggle over Sen. Rubio’s specifics, such as whether American families stand to benefit more from tailored tax credits than from the economic growth that a flatter tax...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 25, 2019 | Economics
Kevin Williamson corrects misleading data in the NYT in Connecting Some Dots on Taxes: Tomasky and others frequently write that the top 1 percent or, in this case, the top 0.00025 percent, has more wealth than the bottom 60 percent or the bottom half or some other...
