Posts Tagged ‘Economics’
Practicing spending restraint is possible and it can work
Two new videos this week from Dan Mitchel and the Center for Freedom and Prosperity. In these tutorials, Mitchel reviews spending restraint policies during the Reagan and Clinton administration as well as similar approaches by Canada, Ireland, Slovakia, and New Zealand to get rapid improvements in fiscal policy.
Read MoreA Slice of Reality for Governor Malloy
Governor Malloy recently announced, during his budget speech, that “Connecticut is open for business.” Sadly, reality disagrees.
Read MoreObama’s Keynesian plan … it’s just all wrong
A recent video from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity caught my attention during the last couple of days. Hiwa Alaghebandian – who we have seen before – explains how Keynesian economics represents the opposite of what should be happening. It’s a good primer for those looking for information.
Read MoreThe conservative perspective on payday loans
In today’s world, almost every single person is a victim of the loan scam. While it is undoubtedly helpful, it is equally burdening too. Many people who owe loans to more than 1 person have begun to take out trust deeds as it is in today’s world the only safest option which allowed them to…
Read MoreHubris, the first in an occasional series-UPDATE The Harry Reid edition
In which Harry Reid confuses himself with Superman… (h/t Andrew Breitbart)
Read MoreTax increases not required to balance federal budget – it’s fiscal restraint and spending
Dan Mitchell from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation has a new video out detailing why it is absolutely not necessary to raise taxes to balance the budget. He shows with just a small amount of fiscal restraint, the federal budget can be balanced within six years.
Read MoreFederal spending totally out of control – a new look
Personally, I think federal spending has been out of control for decades, starting with the New Deal programs that began the incremental shift of project funding from states and local communities to the federal government. That trickle – if you can call it that – may now equal or surpass the power and flow of Niagara Falls.
Read MoreEconomics Primer: The Laffer Curve
For those of you interested in a lesson about the Laffer Curve, here you go. I think it’s necessary to bring the topic of tax rates – and those of tax increases and tax decreases – a bit more into focus since the topic comes up so frequently.
Read MoreWhy “stimulus” is a bad word
An article in today’s Orlando Sentinel provides a graphic demonstration of why the American public is fed up with Washington’s “solution” to this country’s economic woes.
Read MoreLefty press claims Obama can’t get angry because of racist right
This is too much … oh and yes … it’s also another media indictment of the “Tea Party”, and frankly this is starting to get a little old. Every time this President gets in trouble, which is often, the main stream media rides to the rescue with the charge of “raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacist”. It begins with yesterday’s…
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