Solidarity, For Now? The Many Costs of Labor’s Decline
When I moved to RI in 2003 from Washington, I was rather stunned to hear many of my liberal friends repeat the media meme that organized labor was too powerful in the Ocean State [note: I will use the term ‘liberal’ rather than ‘progressive,’ because in my experience people on the left my age and […]
President Obama and the Imaginary Spending Binge
Recently, I did something I shouldn’t have done, and I’d like to confess here. Someone I don’t know wrote me a nice note about some things I have written and some banking issues I’m working on (more on this someday). In the process of the note, he described himself as moderate Republican, “fiscally conservative and […]
Penny-wise, (Rand) Paul foolish — or, why government often matters
It appears, at times, that American conservatives seem to even deny the possibility that government spending or regulation might actually save money — either save the government money (a secondary consideration) or save the country money (presumably, the primary goal). As I noted yesterday, there is now ample empirical evidence that environmental regulation (along with Medicaid) has decreased […]
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