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EU Commissioner for Competition Neelie Kroes on temporary government aid to struggeling industries (quoted from memory from this event):
Giving temporary aid is like pregnancy. You think it is only for nine months, but there are decades of consequences.
The Economist’s assesment of Barack Obama’s first two months in office. Kudos for good efforts on the global scale, but domestic policy is stumbling:
There are two main reasons for this. The first is Mr Obama’s failure to grapple as fast and as single-mindedly with the economy as he should have done. His stimulus package, though [...]
Again, from Charles Murray’s Happiness of the People lecture:
The twentieth century was a very strange century, riddled from beginning to end with toxic political movements and nutty ideas. For some years a metaphor has been stuck in my mind: the twentieth century was the adolescence of Homo sapiens. Nineteenth-century science, from Darwin to Freud, offered [...]
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 [...]
What policy will the Obama administration pursue towards Iran? Will they support freedom or will they try negotiations to get a deal on the nuclear issue? Excellent piece by Mariam Memarsadeghi and Akbar Atri, who I am lucky to call my real-life friends, in The Washington Post. Bottom line: Obama has shown what democracy can [...]
Saturday we went to see the always amazing Steven Patrick Morrissey at the Warner Theatre in Central DC. A beautiful venue, like a cinema of yore.
Moz has recently released the excellent Years of Refusal, and he played 4 or 5 tracks from that album and a smattering of classics from his long career – starting [...]
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