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Saturday, May 03, 2008

Forbes re Fed Fumbling

Read How It Went Wrong--and How to Make It Right
in Steve Forbes’s weekly column and Panic Time at the Fed by Steve H. Hanke.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 05/03 at 10:21 PM
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Friday, May 02, 2008

Harping on the Wrong String

If we are to come to grips with conditions in today’s economy, we must understand the nature of that economy.  Read The Cognitive Age
by the New York Times’s sometimes-conservative columnist David Brooks.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 05/02 at 09:01 PM
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Thursday, May 01, 2008

Higher Taxes Don't Work

In liberal-progressive-socialist theory, taking your money via taxes and cycling it through Washington, DC, magically makes the economy more efficient.  Historical experience doesn’t support that thesis.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 05/01 at 11:51 PM
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

High Oil Prices – Blame The Government You Elected!

Thomas Segel answers critics of his recent essay.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 04/30 at 09:56 AM
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

The Fed and the Phillips Curve

Read The Fed Must Strengthen the Dollar in the Wall Street Journal.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 04/29 at 08:38 PM
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Monday, April 28, 2008

The Inflation Tax

The Fed continues blithely to ignore the destructive inflationary impact of excessively expanding the money supply.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 04/28 at 06:05 PM
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Friday, April 25, 2008

A Gallon of Milk, A Gallon of Gas and the Ethanol Hoax

Thomas Segel projects more light onto the loony land of liberalism.  Being a liberal requires extreme superficiality, readiness to accept any idea that at first glance, from afar, sounds good.  Liberal superficiality requires that no one look beyond the initial impact of any welfare-state spending measure or paganism such as environmentalism to discern the further damaging effects that create far worse conditions than the initial distress.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 04/25 at 07:35 AM
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Sunday, April 20, 2008

Regulatory Illusion

Today’s clamor for more regulation of financial institutions to prevent another subprime mortgage meltdown is an exercise in self-deception.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 04/20 at 12:50 PM
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Friday, April 11, 2008

Volcker Agrees

Federal Reserve policy has already created a dollar crisis.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 04/11 at 11:21 PM
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Friday, April 04, 2008

Herbert Hoover McCain?

Senator Clinton and the Los Angeles Times need to get their facts straight before making ignorant pronouncements.

Posted by Thomas E. Brewton on 04/04 at 09:54 PM
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