Showing posts with label Real Clear Markets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Real Clear Markets. Show all posts
Saturday, December 25, 2021

John Tamny remains as confused as a thinker and as obtuse as a writer as he has ever been

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John Tamny has made some progress, however. He now admits that some of his views are "fringe". Which is amusing, since we've k...
Saturday, May 9, 2020

It's the libertarian crazies among us who are clueless and spoiled, not the cooks, servers and dishwashers

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"In other words, if they’re farming or working in a mine, they’re doing so by choice. This should be remembered the next time some sp...
Friday, February 7, 2020

LOL: Donald Trump's crackpot 35% unemployment in February 2016 is 37% today

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Jeffrey Snider : In February of 2016, then-candidate Trump deployed his typical grandiose, exaggerated style after his win in the New Ha...
Monday, November 25, 2019

Libertarian kook John Tamny of Real Clear Markets twists himself into a pretzel about Katie Hill, writes a convoluted mess about it, as usual

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Rep. Katie Hill recently resigned her congressional seat after, among other things, a romantic relationship with a junior male staffer was ...
Monday, March 11, 2019

LOL Larry Kudlow: 22,000 new payrolls in February 2019 "fluky", but 54,000 in May 2011 "meager", economy "sputtering", possibly a sign of recession

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Obama Owns This Unemployment Report : In recent weeks, a whole bunch of new economic stats have been pointing to a sputtering economy -...
Thursday, February 28, 2019

Jeffrey Snider: The last 11 years of real GDP worse overall than the Great Depression

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 Told ya. Are the Great Depression and the Last 11 Years Comparable? In terms of modern calculation of real Gross Domestic Product,...
Monday, August 20, 2018

The Tobin Q ratios for Germany and America tell us Elizabeth Warren and David Dayen are wrong

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Louis Woodhill, here : Put simply, a Tobin Q ratio higher than 100% means that a company is creating economic value, and a Tobin Q bel...
Friday, May 4, 2018

Jeffrey Snider: Fix the suffering in the labor force or next time you might actually get socialism

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Here : The American labor force is suffering like it hasn’t since the 1930’s, but nobody seems willing to challenge Economists’ easily...
Friday, July 28, 2017

State capitalist cronyism in Wisconsin smells to high heaven: The state will pay $3 billion for Foxconn jobs

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The cost of reelection for Scott Walker, Paul Ryan and Donald Trump. From the story here : What will the State of Wisconsin be pay...
Monday, January 16, 2017

Complete and utter rubbish from Real Clear Markets on "free market" Martin Luther King Jr. who said "capitalism has outlived its usefulness"

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Here  in "Martin Luther King's Free-Market Legacy": Martin Luther King proclaimed that he had a dream that “…my four lit...
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Despicable Paul Ryan, Congress and Obama stiff-arm Puerto Rico bondholders who will end up fronting the inevitable taxpayer bailout

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Paul Ryan is the establishment all the way. And he hasn't changed since 2008. He is not Tea Party, he is not Freedom Caucus, he is n...
Saturday, December 12, 2015

Larry Kudlow does a 180, calls for sealing the borders

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From "War Breeds Unfairness. Seal the Borders" here : "But I say seal the borders. People hoping to relocate to the U.S...
Friday, August 28, 2015

Thirty-five years ago the economy mattered more than actual power

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"[Economists] never offer anything but the same command approach to the obvious exception of everything else that used to be easily a...
Monday, February 2, 2015

The housing bubble was mainly a middle class and higher phenomenon, not of the poor

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From Robert Samuelson, here : ". . . in poorer neighborhoods . . . the actual borrowers . . . were much richer than average resid...
Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Republican enthusiasm for the Line Item Veto began under Reagan and was their version of the imperial presidency

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No different than Reagan's enthusiasm for federal mandates like EMTALA, which is the proximate cause of ObamaCare. But J. T. Young doe...
Friday, July 11, 2014

Minus 2.9% GDP has never occurred outside of a recession: They're ignoring it like 2008

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Jeffrey Snider, here : The most recent example of this, in a larger scale setting, was the first quarter's GDP estimate. Rather than emb...
Friday, July 4, 2014

Total nonfarm is up 288,000 in June: Why I'm yawning

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Unemployment in June falls to 6.1% and total non farm employment is up 288,000, seasonally adjusted, to finish the second quarter. Not seaso...
Thursday, June 12, 2014

Larry Kudlow must be kidding: "if the 11 million illegals who live here obey the law . . ."

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Here : And if the 11 million illegals who live here obey the law, pay taxes, learn English, and understand the Constitution, they deserve le...
Monday, May 5, 2014

It's time to treat the rich like equals: Dean Kalahar speaks up for proportional taxation

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Here , although the ahistorical reading of Scripture by liberals on behalf of progressive taxation is hardly new: Proportional taxes actuall...
Tuesday, April 22, 2014

And you thought I was kidding when I called Thomas Piketty's new book a novel

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Diana Furchtgott-Roth for Real Clear Markets, here , eviscerates Thomas Piketty's presentation on the minimum wage: One might ov...