The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Gillespie On Forgiving Student Loan Debt

by Smitty I like all three of Nick’s arguments, but he’s focusing on the Economics: Let me add three more: Student loans are not a federal task, and never were. The federal government should be forcibly precluded from queering the education market any further. If Virginians need student loans, we should be handling that in […]

I Do Not Have A Federal Reserve Alter Ego

by Smitty Just want to make that perfectly clear. Also, I am not a US Representative from New Jersey. As for what’s driving teen unemployment, I think that an economy parked in the toilet bowl is the main culprit. via Marginal Revolution

Unexpectedly, Puffington Host Editors Face Uncertainty About The Founders

by Smitty The Puffington Host editors offer this collection of GOP Congressmen using the word ‘uncertainty’. Props to Todd Young, USNA ’95, appearing at 0:55: The Puffington Host, normally such a bastion of wisdom and erudition, is unexpectedly daft here: With the economy in a slump for nearly four years, corporate executives and conservative politicians […]

Well-Informed Customers Are Well-Armed Customers

by Smitty Freakonomics discusses an NYU mashup that maps out subsidized housing: As the article makes clear, this database performs a variety of worthwhile functions — allowing renters or buyers to locate affordable housing; letting affordable-housing advocates keep track of when subsidized buildings are scheduled to potentially lose their subsidized status; etc. There’s one potential […]

Tarkenton: Government Intervention Is A Blitzing 300lb Linebacker Coming To Sack An Economy Near You

by Smitty: No, Fran’s blog didn’t go for the sports analogy like I did in the title, but he does quote Sowell at length. Read the whole thin and share it with a sports fan you know who doesn’t read enough blogs. And then send said fan here. The government keeps doing things, and all […]

Economic Freedom: That Upon Which Our GOP Candidates Should Be Focusing

by Smitty Consider the following video a crowbar for use in prying the conservative head out of a lightless location: The silliness of wasting days and days going after flimsy allegations is helping no one but BHO. Kabogus theater (to coin a phrase) is no way to set about recovering the country. Watch that YouTube […]

David Lee Roth Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love, But Thomas Sowell Is, To Profound Effect

by Smitty (via The Corner) Click to view what is truly an excellent dialogue, and one worth sharing with all those who have ears. If the guy wasn’t 814 years old [ed: first day, new ears], we should have to press gang him into the presidency. And you can’t write that sort of title without […]

Front Page Video-Fisks James Livingston

by Smitty Livingston’s thesis: AS an economic historian who has been studying American capitalism for 35 years, I’m going to let you in on the best-kept secret of the last century: private investment — that is, using business profits to increase productivity and output — doesn’t actually drive economic growth. Consumer debt and government spending […]

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