Division of Labour‘s Frank Stephenson’s letter in today’s Wall Street Journal is priceless:
I was surprised to read that “White House economists believe that taxes have little effect on growth.” Just a few days ago I received the June 2010...
June 28th headline in the New York Times:
In Ireland, a Picture of the High Cost of Austerity
June 30th headline in the New York Times (from the Associated Press):
Ireland’s Economy Posts First Growth in Two Years
In the first story, which appea...
When I recently criticized an editorial cartoonist for slamming libertarians — he said a libertarian “lifeguard” would let everyone drown — he wrote back claiming that libertarians would abolish numerous federal departments and agencies, like...
The 30th Annual International Symposium on Forecasting was held in San Diego last week. Among the many interesting presentations was Princeton Professor Mark Watson's discussion of estimating business cycle turning points using a large number of ind...
Here’s a letter to the Washington Post:
Deborah Hahn writes: “Until the damaged BP well in the Gulf of Mexico is capped, please publish daily a front-page picture of wildlife covered in oil, in misery, dying, unable to be cleaned” (Letters, Jun...
