Crowding Out
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Topic
Economics
A collection of 180 issues
Monday
Ain't Goin' Back!
From what I can glean from TV news, Obama's new jobs bill will cost $800 billion
over the next two years. Although it contains tax credit for employers who hire
new employees, it is geared toward creating more jobs in the public
From the Notebooks
Groping Toward a Catholic von Mises
I like to find connections in different areas of knowledge. If I discovered a
connection between Flannery O'Connor's practice of fiction and Augustine's
criticism of Pelagianism, complete with concrete examples, I'd be delighted.
Fifteen years ago,
Monday
Grappling to Understand
You ever stumble across something huge that you've never heard of? That happened
to me this weekend while reading The Atlantic. I read an article entitled, "The
Listener [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/201001/coast-to-coast]." It's
about George Noory'
From the Notebooks
Investment Decision:
Dying White Guys or Growing Non-Whites?
"If the growth rate of per capita income . . . between 2003 and 2050 remains as
it was between 1973 and 2003--averaging 1.68 percent annually in Europe, the
United States, and Canada and 2.47 percent annually in the rest of the
Wednesday
Grant a Bull
An economics writer I trust is bullish. That, according to New York magazine. I
like NYM, but I don't trust it. Awhile back, I remember they wrote about the
sense of public service that prompts Goldman Sachs to require its executives to
take government job
Tuesday
Calamity Insurance
What percentage of your investments should be in precious metals? Of that
percentage, should you count gold-mining stocks? Those are questions I struggle
with. I don't really have any good benchmarks, but I've heard "no more than 10%"
offered by mainstream investment
Monday
Commentary on the Never-Ending Economic Crisis
I hardly consider myself a neo-con, but their flagship publication, Commentary,
has some awfully good stuff occasionally. In the January 2010 issue, David M.
Smick dissects the current monetary and public debt mess in great detail
[http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/a-never-ending-economic-crisis--15322]
. It
From the Notebooks
Random Bill Bonner quotes. That guy slays me:
"If markets do the work of God, as has been suggested, it is the God of the Old
Testament, not the New." Bill Bonner
"All major governments seem to have come together in some unholy socialism, but
where are
Monday
Return to the Gold Standard?
When it comes to a return to the gold standard, my newest favorite financial
writer, Randall Forsyth, vehemently disagrees with my older favorite financial
writers
[http://www.investorvillage.com/smbd.asp?mb=12164&mn=16277&pt=msg&mid=8318588],
like Rothbard and,