:-), since I doubt the Tax Foundation is one of your oft-visited websites.
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@ Jeff Adams, this one’s for you
22 Jun 2022
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J.M. Keynes as a guest Berean?
21 Jun 2022
Well, maybe today. As I’m writing an op-ed for a local paper, I was drawn back to Keynes famous section in his work, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, written in 1919. Below is an extended section; we can discuss in the comments if you like. Lenin is said to have declared that the best […]
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Yes, the median American would take over three years to make in salary what Wall Street financiers made just in bonus last year. You don’t have to be an Occupy Wall Street type to feel that this salary is a bit out of proportion. However, you should not be aiming your pitch forks at Wall […]
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A Case for US/NATO No-Fly Zone (and other covert support) in Ukraine: If not us, who? And if not now, when?
02 Mar 2022
One of the great conundrums for American foreign policy is what precisely should we consider before entering into war. Attacks on us? Just domestic or also attacks on our citizens abroad? How big do they have to be to merit a military response? Beyond that, there is the difficult question of when should we go […]
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Stephen Breyer Steps Down
26 Jan 2022
Stephen Breyer, 83, appears to be stepping off the United States Supreme Court. The oldest member,* Breyer said recently he did not intend to “die on the Court,” though it was not clear he would retire so soon. Breyer was nominated by Bill Clinton and got 87 Senate votes for confirmation, a result that seems […]
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USA Today recently published an article that conservative critics declaimed as attempting to normalize pedophilia. The article makes several claims, including: (a) pedophilia must be distinguished from sexual child abuse or molestation, since it is an attraction not an action; (b) “pedophilia is determined in the womb” and because it is inborn, it isn’t something […]
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One more quick thought on “transitory” inflation
15 Dec 2021
What if the Fed were right when said earlier in the year that inflation was going to be transitory? Let’s be clear–a kidney stone is transitory, but nobody in their right mind would say, “yeh I’m ok with having a kidney stone since it’s only transitory.” Yes I’m glad the Fed is ending their use […]
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Democrats “cast off restraint”
23 Sep 2021
In 2015 I penned a post on Proverbs 29:18, commonly quoted as “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” Today I think it’s time to come back to that theme. In my original post, I argued that the common meaning from the KJV doesn’t capture the Bible’s intent, with the ESV (and NASB/NIV/NKJV) translation […]
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From their classic textbook, Universal Economics: Not only are violations of ethics more likely to prevent successful market activities but they are arguably more powerful in the economic market than in the markets of political and social exchange. Ask whether a seller/supplier or a politician tends to make more reliable promises. Which will suffer most, […]
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History doesn’t repeat, Mark Twain said, but it sometimes rhymes. Sometimes the rhymes are so compelling that they cry out for comment. President Biden’s speech on August 31, 2021, on the end of the war in Afghanistan was, for me, one of those times. It recalled to me a speech given on June 4, 1940, […]
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