Tag: "Economics"
The Delivery Presents – The Show in Which I Wade Into High Finance
By now, you know from listening to the show that I can get a little bit excitable, and that oftentimes that excitability comes out against those who would be my political allies. That happened again in Episode 130. I’ve seen a lot of blog posts and news articles about the housing and credit crisis, but [...]
My Goodness, Harry Reid’s Unicorns Are Truly Magical!
I apologize for the return of Harry Reid’s glowering mug on the front page, but someone delivered a smackdown of Reid’s egregious “unicorn” statement so thorough that it’s worth staring at Reid to get it.
Santa Claus, The Tooth Fairy, and Millionaires Who Hire People: Harry Reid’s Mythical Trifecta
It’s been a while since Senator Harry Reid (D – Under the Nearest Bridge) flat-out lost his mind, but today, he erupted with a tirade against Republicans and “the rich” that ought to disqualify him from holding a job more complex than dishwasher ever again. Here’s what he said: The Republicans say the richest of [...]
The Stimulus that Dare Not Speak Its Name
This morning Jeffrey Anderson noted that the latest Rasmussen poll had a couple interesting things to say about Obamacare. First, the voting public wants it gone — not just partially gone or mostly gone, but erased from the very fabric of space and time like a cupcake after a two-week Michael Moore fast. Second, independent [...]
Venn You’ve Got It, Ezra Klein, You’ve Got It.
It’s time again for another trip into the mind of Ezra Klein. Please take your motion-sickness pills and if, for some reason, your entire being is catapulted into a universe of unicorns and rainbows, please do not be alarmed. A rescue team will find you in relatively short order. Klein has decided to take on [...]
Obama to Business: You Idiots Just Need to Understand the Free Market!
Anytime you get a situation where President Obama lectures the American people on how the economy works, you know it’ll end in laughter and tears. Today was no different as Our Planmaker-In-Chief stood before a crowd in Minnesota and told them that automakers have no idea in the world what kind of vehicle people really [...]
The Committee is Nearly Set, And the Fix is Already In.
We now know the names of nine of the twelve members of Congress who will make up the Joint Committee. This committee’s job is to find at least $1.5 trillion in “deficit reduction” from the next ten years of federal budgets that will likely total more than $37 trillion. John Heyward has a good bit [...]
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