You Can’t Cut Your Way to Growth Part 1
Later Parts: Part 1b and Part 2 Cutting budget deficits is all the rage. After all, everyone “knows” that being in debt is a sure sign of someone with lax morals. At least, that is how it is sold. It...
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You Can’t Cut Your Way to Growth Part 1B A Night at the Theater?
Previous Parts: Part 1 Later Parts: Part 2 In this series of posts I’m looking at the relationships between various entities in an economy. Partly I’m trying to document, for myself, the information I...
View ArticleYou Can’t Cut Your Way to Growth Part 2 Government and Exports
Previous Parts: Part 1 and Part 1b The take away for this last part is that if someone is against a budget deficit and against a falling dollar, then they are for a smaller economy and more...
View ArticleBarons of Broadband
Barons of Broadband. Last week’s big business news was the announcement that Comcast, a gigantic provider of cable TV and high-speed Internet service, has reached a deal to acquire Time Warner, which...
View ArticleVoter ID cases could let John Roberts destroy Voting Rights Act
Voter ID cases could let John Roberts destroy Voting Rights Act. Striking down or significantly narrowing that key pillar, known as Section 2, would essentially render the most successful civil-rights...
View ArticleFDA Set to Regulate E-Cigarettes
Source: E-Cigarettes: A $1.5 Billion Industry Braces for FDA Regulation The FDA is considering regulations for e-cigs. I’m sure the results will be quite pleasant for e-cig users such as myself. I...
View ArticleMitch McConnelling
So Senator Mitch McConnell made this cheesy PR video and The Daily Show discovered that you could play just about any song with it and come up with something funny. They called on their fans to make...
View ArticleNate Silver Not So Foxy
“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” The quote is one Nate Silver is fond of. It can be found in his 2012 book The Signal and the Noise as well as in an article at his new...
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