Robert Higgs | Monday January 14, 2013 at 4:44 PM PDT | 9 Comments
I heard a noise that seemed to come from my chamber door. I opened it, and then . . . Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams some Austrians dared to dream before; But recession was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token, And the only words...
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Tags: Austrian School of Economics, Budget and Tax Policy, deficit spending, Economics, Federal Reserve, government spending, Keynesian economics, Liberalism, Ludwig von Mises, Money and Banking, Progressivism, recession, The State
John C. Goodman | at 9:53 AM PDT | 1 Comment
My top recommendation for improving healthcare for the poor is to replace Medicaid with subsidies that enable them to access the same healthcare system that everyone else has access to. My second pick would be to turn Medicaid into a competing health plan and make it available to everyone. If those proposals aren’t adopted...
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Tags: Healthcare, Medicaid
Melancton Smith | at 5:29 AM PDT | 0 Comments
From the New York Sun: That is the headline on the 30th anniversary issue of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, which this morning is, as it has been every other week for the past generation, being savored among the savvy. The latest headline sits atop one of the newsletter’s classic editorials. “Since 1917,” it quotes...
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Tags: Budget and Tax Policy, debt ceining, Economics, Grant's Interest Rate Observer, Nanny State, Politics
