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Udover ønsket om at skade en mulig konkurrent til Barack Obama i 2012 er der to mulige forklaringer på Demokraternes kampagne imod Sanford. Den første forklaring er, at Demokraterne ærligt og oprigtigt tror på, at 700 millioner til undervisning vil hjælpe South Carolinas økonomi mere end at [...]
A song for Paul Krugman (vs. Timothy Geitner).
Geithner’s own words on his plan for a solution for the toxic assets. Grand plans, costly for taxpayers. But it is basically the same political solution to any societal problem that hits a lot of people at the same time: just spread the cost to everybody through taxation [...]
The Republicans are all about “Small Government” these days, but doesn’t their new-found chasity feel kind of hollow? Considering the Bush-year’s gigantic budgets and expansion of executive power, it sees a little late to find your libertarian roots.
Here’s a historian who thinks so, Julian E. Zelizer:
After the past eight years in American politics, it is [...]
So thinks The American Enterprise Institute.
I was an ambivalent socialist before I read this; now, I’m a rabid Austrian. Get this book, and prepare to have your mind blown.
Librarything-user in a review of Henry Hazlitt’s Economics In One Lesson. An amazing book. Scary thing: Present politicians are repeating all the same fallacies that Hazlitt uncovered 60 years ago (and Bastiat [...]
is really just another reason why we shouldn’t nationalize banks. If you can’t stand they way they do business – including the way they make their contracts – don’t give them any money!
That may strike many people as a bit of convenient legalese, but maybe there is something to it. If you think this economy [...]
Klumme her fra Finn Ziegler.
En del af pengene er øremærket eller afsat til projekter, som skal øge populariteten af demokratiske kongrespolitikere i hjemstaterne. Eksempelvis er 10% af de midler, som er afsat til udvikling af højhastighedstog, øremærket til et projekt, som skal forbinde Las Vegas med L.A. Det er tilfældigvis her, lederen af Demokraterne i [...]
“Earmarks” are items on congressional spending bills where the funding goes to specific, localised projects in either one state or a few states (more bridges for the Ohio river) or for a very specific group of people (one-legged teenage moms in Nebraska). The “Earmark” is typically either a “pet project” of a specific lawmaker or [...]
Min nyeste klumme i Berlingske Tidende: Tæt på Obama.
Hvis USA er verdens centrum, så er Washington DC omdrejningspunktet i USA. Der var engang, hvor New York brystede sig af titlen »Hele verdens hovedstad«. De tider er forbi. Verdens økonomiske og politiske fremtid bliver afgjort lige her, i et pænt, hvidt hus et par [...]
Dagens USA I DAG klumme er af Henrik Fogh Rasmussen:
Problemet er selvfølgelig, at det ikke altid er nok bare at kaste penge efter problemerne – specielt ikke hvis prisen er en enorm statsgæld, som skal betales tilbage af skatteyderne i fremtiden. I den nuværende sikkerhedspolitiske situation er det formentlig en god idé at investere i [...]
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