Conflicts of interest
James Joyner points us to this bit of union badness from Mickey Kaus: I knew they’d find a way to punish Ford: The new UAW contract with Ford apparently does not give America’s surviving non-bankrupt automaker parity...
Tagged: Stimulus
Richard Posner, Keynesian
Richard Posner has an interesting essay on John Maynard Keynes in The New Republic. I’m still trying to untangle all the various ideas and contradictions implicit in this economic downturn. There are many competing...
brief thoughts on cash for clunkers
Well, first of all I have a clunker. A minivan to be precise. It is rusty on the top, and though it drives fairly well in town, our mechanic recently warned us not to...
Republican Hypocrites
Okay, a fun little photo album here, and more hypocritical acts of “dissent” here and here from Republican protestors who just realized that massive spending and the ensuing debt might just cause problems for...
just nationalize them already…
Much ado is being made over the recent revelations surrounding the Obama rescue plan that was sort-of, not-really unveiled the other day by Timothy Geitner. Apparently there was a bit of floundering from on...
Casino Politics
In response to Freddie, Ross Douthat writes: The issue is the risk the Democrats are taking, period, by spending enormous sums that aren’t obviously justified by the current crisis, at the start of an...
Beyond the Stimulus?
David Leonhardt writing in the NyTimes: But while Washington has been preoccupied with stimulus and bailouts, another, equally important issue has received far less attention — and the resolution of it is far more...
Sometimes the Quid Is Better than the Quo
There is much ado today about the fact that Obama, apparently in response to conservatives’ objections, has asked House Democrats to withdraw a provision in the stimulus package that would provide family planning money...
