Another Crisis: It’s the Obama Way – WSJ.com. Peggy Noonan writes, “The president seems to prefer frustration to good-faith negotiation.”]]>
Category Archives: Politics
Political Rhetoric Test by Pew Research center
See http://www.people-press.org/2011/12/28/little-change-in-publics-response-to-capitalism-socialism/?src=prc-headline for the full article underlying this graphic…
Why $16 Trillion Only Hints at the True U.S. Debt
Cox and Archer: Why $16 Trillion Only Hints at the True U.S. Debt – WSJ.com.
“Hiding the government’s liabilities from the public makes it seem that we can tax our way out of mounting deficits. We can’t.”
The Human Toll of Violence in Gaza, Israel – The Numbers Guy
The Human Toll of Violence in Gaza, Israel – The Numbers Guy – WSJ.
“Bombings in Gaza, and rocket attacks on Israel, leave death in their wake — as well as questions about how to count, categorize and interpret the casualty counts.”
Spain and Catalonia: The trials of keeping a country together
Spain and Catalonia: The trials of keeping a country together | The Economist.
“Stabilising Spain’s finances without tearing its social fabric apart is being made harder by a new wave of Catalan secessionism.”
None Dare Call It Default
Jenkins: None Dare Call It Default – WSJ.com.
“A nicer term for what’s about to sock the middle class is ‘entitlement reform.'”
President Kennedy’s Plan to Spur the Economy with a Tax Cut (August 13, 1962 Oval Office speech)
From Mark Perry’s Carpe Diem website: “In this video from August 13, 1962, watch President Kennedy as he announces his bold plan to introduce permanent, across-the-board, top-to-bottom tax cuts for both individuals and corporations to help the economy grow and prevent a recession. Kennedy argued that tax reform was “long-needed” because both “logic and equity” demanded tax relief for Americans. Further, Kennedy predicted that the dollars released from taxation would create new jobs, new salaries, and spur economic growth and an expanding American economy, thereby creating more jobs and higher tax revenues. He was exactly right.”
President Kennedy's Plan to Spur the Economy with a Tax Cut (August 13, 1962 Oval Office speech)
From Mark Perry’s Carpe Diem website: “In this video from August 13, 1962, watch President Kennedy as he announces his bold plan to introduce permanent, across-the-board, top-to-bottom tax cuts for both individuals and corporations to help the economy grow and prevent a recession. Kennedy argued that tax reform was “long-needed” because both “logic and equity” demanded tax relief for Americans. Further, Kennedy predicted that the dollars released from taxation would create new jobs, new salaries, and spur economic growth and an expanding American economy, thereby creating more jobs and higher tax revenues. He was exactly right.”]]>
Friedrich A. Hayek on the “curious task of economics”
Economist Friedrich A. Hayek in “The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism” (1988):
“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.”
Friedrich A. Hayek on the "curious task of economics"
Economist Friedrich A. Hayek in “The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism” (1988): “The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.”]]>