If, in January 2015, someone had asked me if I could imagine that, in November 2024, the American people would be ready to re-elect as president a man who, on losing his first attempt at re-election in 2020 had summoned a mob on January 6, 2021 with the express purpose of pressuring the U.S. Congress…
Tag: economics
Yeah, I flunked Econ 101! What’s your point?
As a matter of fact, I I didn’t flunk Econ 101, because I never took it! So what? To quote Mel Brooks, I’m an old man and I’ve got a right to talk. And, to quote another old man, Richard Nixon, “I am not an intellectual, but I do read books!” Well, I do and…
So, the Nobel wasn’t for stand-up, am I correct, Dr. Krugman?
“I sometimes joke that there are only around 15 true libertarians in America, and they all wear bow ties”—Nobel Prize dude Paul Krugman, holding forth in today’s NYT. Assuming that that’s true, one can only pity Paul’s friends, if he has any. I know a number of “true libertarians”, though probably not 15, and none…
Doctors and lawyers and dentists, oh my!
Brookings dude Jonathan Rothwell largely explains where the money is going these days—hint: not always to the people who deserve it—and suggests some ways to make things more equal. First off, Jon says that things aren’t as bad as some folks are saying. The share of the national economic pie going to “labor” hasn’t been…