One man's efficiency is another man's absurdity. Check out these three slides from Governor Dennis Daugaard's 2015 State of the State Address. Governor Daugaard told the Legislature that we don't want all of our roads to be in the best…
Posts tagged as “stimulus”
In December 2008, International Code Council CEO Rick Weiland sent a letter to incoming Energy Secretary Dr. Steven Chu encouraging the Obama Administration to include $100 million for "grants to local governments to upgrade their building code enforcement to new…
Gordon Howie tries to pin me down on fiscal policy and the national debt. He gets me to say that spending more to get out of debt "sounds nuts, nuts, nuts!" But I stand by what I say in this…
Press-release puppet Pat Powers makes himself and his sponsor Senator John Thune look like an idiot with today's repost of a letter from Senator Thune and 16 Republican Senate colleagues. These hardy Republicans are calling for Health and Human Services…
If you're feeling economical this fine summer morning, read finance professor Noah Smith's evaluation of six major conservative arguments about the 2007–2009 recession and the recovery. Smith finds all six mostly wrong: Fannie, Freddie, and the Community Reinvestment Act caused…
The rich must be done reacting. Right after the November election, conservative blog P&R Miscellany reveled in the stock market's slide as a sign that the 1% knew four more years of President Obama meant economic doom. I suggested that…