Plunderbund

According to the Renewable Energy Policy Project, more than 20,000 new manufacturing jobs can be created in Ohio in the coming years with investment in and from the “green” economy. Four town hall meetings – on June 23 in Cincinnati, June 24 in Findlay, June 25 in Canton and June 26 in Cleveland – will […]

I mentioned earlier that Larry Bartels has a new book about how Democratic Presidencies are significantly correlated with better economic growth. Some economists - Paul Krugman is one - are unsure what to make of this.
So what’s going on? Paul Krugman says he’s uncertain about Bartels’s results because he can’t figure out a “plausible […]

It’s true - since 1948 a Democratic White House has meant higher economic growth across all economic classes, especially poorer people, but also for the richest people in society.
Bartels shows in his book that this difference is not a statistical artifact or a fluke. It is not the result of Democrats coming to power […]

Leinberger at Atlantic.com:
The decline of places like Windy Ridge and Franklin Reserve is usually attributed to the subprime-mortgage crisis, with its wave of foreclosures. And the crisis has indeed catalyzed or intensified social problems in many communities. But the story of vacant suburban homes and declining suburban neighborhoods did not begin with the crisis, and […]

It’s pretty well recognized that college professors as a group are more liberal than the population at large. The unexplored question was always “why?” People like David Horowitz would blindly speculate that it was hostility towards conservatives that drove them from academia, but nobody actually tried to learn why there weren’t more conservatives […]

Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) has introduced a bill called the Greenhouse Gas Emission Atmospheric Removal (or GEAR) Act. GEAR is designed to provide for bounties to be awarded to whomever accomplishes a specific task first - in this case scrubbing greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere to counteract pollution from human activity.
“Wherever you find […]

When is this “liberal media” meme going to die? Would a true “liberal media”, that is allegedly trying to cram a liberal POV down the throats of their consumers ever do something like this?
In a long, and interesting speech, he characterized what the U.S. and other industrialized nations need to do to combat global […]

Late last year I talked briefly about how government innovation in the market can often be a very good thing. I also plugged Ha-Joon Chang’s Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism. Thankfully, I’ve now had an opportunity to read a good chunk of the book, and […]

Anyone else get the sense that Tom Blumer is related to Mohammed Sa�d al-Sahaf? You know, Chemical Ali. The guy who kept saying American troops were “not even within a 100 miles…”
Just imagine he is saying: “They is no recessions! Dee economie is OK, yes. The stock market is great, […]

It’s behind the NYT privacy-wall, but it’s a good read. I’ve excerpted the most relevant parts.
Maybe Mr. Obama was, as his supporters insist, simply praising Reagan�s political skills. (I think he was trying to curry favor with a conservative editorial board, which did in fact endorse him.) But where in his remarks was the […]

After meeting with his economic advisors today President Bush declared:
This economy of ours is on a solid foundation, but we can’t take economic growth for granted and there are signs that cause us to be ever more diligent to make sure that good policies come out of Washington
Yesterday he said he was thinking about some […]

An oft-repeated claim of the right is that government regulation of private industry stifles innovation, and it has a certain ring of truthiness to it. But, as with most things truthy, the truth often doesn’t play along.

Sulfur Dioxide pollution has significant externalities - acid rain, which often presents itself far far away from the […]

The British Pound hit a 27 year high against the US Dollar today. 27 years….

American prominence on the world stage has not been due to some issue of “national character”; our people are not inherently different than people anywhere else in the world. But we have, in the past, had better educational resources, and a greater emphasis on science and engineering. But no longer.
Back in September, […]