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Sunday, March 14, 2010

A Boost For Future Inflation

Read Larry Kudlow’s expectations regarding Fed vice chairman nominee Janet Yellen.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 03/14 at 08:13 PM
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Saturday, March 06, 2010

Krugman vs Krugman

New York Times propagandist Paul Krugman has been wrong so often and has reversed himself so many times he can’t remember what he last said.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 03/06 at 03:21 PM
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One Reason Unemployment Remains High

Keynesian macroeconomic models suffer, as do Climategate global-warming models, from human inability to comprehend all relevant factors and to input their unimaginably complex interactions accurately into computer models.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 03/06 at 12:33 AM
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Saturday, February 27, 2010

Green Jobs Destroy Jobs

Read The green jobs myth in the iconic, liberal-progressive Washington Post.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 02/27 at 11:15 PM
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Saturday, February 20, 2010

Should Government Steal Your Money?

Levying taxes is too unpopular.  Why not just inflate the currency?

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 02/20 at 12:59 AM
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Saturday, February 13, 2010

Robbing Peter To Pay Paul

Obama’s stimulus programs have imposed a negative drag on the economy, a drag that will intensify in 2011. 

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 02/13 at 02:45 PM
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Thursday, February 11, 2010

Paul Krugman: Partisan Propagandist

Krugman, a New York Times columnist (need we say more?), shamelessly reverses his previously expressed views to propagandize for Obama’s socialistic policies.

As Larry Elder summarizes it, “Krugman’s flip-flop on the deficit demonstrates a modern economic equation. Hatred of Bush + love for Obama = intellectual dishonesty.”

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 02/11 at 09:03 PM
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Green Jobs Stupidity

The president’s smug assertion that the “science” of global warming is settled turns out to be anther example of liberal-progressives’ dogmatic closed-mindedness.  His continuing devotion to “green” jobs can only be described as willful stupidity.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 02/02 at 05:00 PM
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Saturday, January 30, 2010

In Coke We Trust

Investors now view a default by the U.S. Treasury as more likely than a default by the Coca-Cola Company.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 01/30 at 10:43 AM
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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Why The Fed Is Unlikely To Prevent Inflation

Tom Emerson emailed this op-ed article by his Carnegie Mellon colleague, Professor Allan H. Meltzer:

The Fed’s Anti-Inflation Exit Strategy Will Fail: Sooner or later the pressure to lend out excess bank reserves will be unstoppable.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 01/28 at 06:35 PM
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