5 years later: How’s that Wreckovery working out for ya?
by Michelle Malkin On Feb. 17, 2009, President Obama promised the sun and the moon and the stars. That was the day, five years ago, when he signed the $800 billion “American Recovery and Reinvestment...
View ArticleA Recovery Stymied by Redistribution
Public policy intended to make layoffs less painful actually made layoffs cheaper and more common. by Casey B. Mulligan Why has the labor market contracted so much and why does it remain depressed?...
View ArticleWill Stimulus Money Help Put Texas Central’s High-Speed Rail Back on Track?
Construction for a high-speed train that will zip between Dallas and Houston at more than 200 miles per hour is still in the works. But with costs estimating almost $20 billion more than initially...
View ArticleNancy Pelosi Snuck $350M for 50 Richest Zip Codes into COVID Relief Bill,...
At some point, when the election chaos is finally settled, Congress will likely turn to passing another COVID-19 stimulus/relief bill. (Despite the last one being plagued by rampant fraud and...
View ArticleMcConnell’s Right – The $2000 Checks Are a Bad Idea
How much is enough? It’s a question America is going to have to answer, and soon, lest the need for additional COVID relief packages overwhelm the nation’s ability to pay for them. The national debt,...
View ArticleAn Unnecessary “Stimulus”
In two Defining Ideas articles in 2009, “Who’s Afraid of Budget Deficits? I Am” and “Furman, Summers, and Taxes,” I criticized Lawrence Summers and Jason Furman, two prominent economists who worked in...
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