Economic Policy
Mark Steyn Says America is Committing “Slow Suicide”
While I haven’t had a chance yet to read Mark Steyn’s new book “After America,” from what I’ve read and heard about it he is right on. Below is a 10 minute interview that he did with Sun News that does an excellent job of summarizing his positions. BTW, Mark Steyn lives in New Hamsphire [...]
Tax Fraud by Illegal Immigrants Costs Uncle Sam $4.2 Billion
This story clearly falls into the category: “you just can’t make this stuff up.” First, who knew that illegal immigrants in America could even file a tax return, but they can and do. Even though they don’t have a Social Security number, they can get an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN). The ITIN was created [...]
The State of America’s Private Sector 30: March, 2012
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis recently released their monthly personal income data for March, 2012 (pdf). The chart below shows the private sector share of personal income from January 1959 to March 2012. For March, the private sector share of personal income was 71.27 percent. While the private sector continues to claw it’s way [...]
Escalators and HealthCare
What, you may ask, has escalators got to do with healthcare? Simple. Keeping escalators in working order should be infinitely easier than keeping America’s healthcare system in shape . . . yes/no? Yes. Well, check out this video from Reason TV showing that our nation’s capitol cannot keep their metro escalators in proper working order. [...]
Now You Can Be an Economist and Forecast the Unemployment Rate
Now you can pretend to be Ben Bernanke . . . check out this cool interactive app which lets you choose the parameters of the economy and then it plots the future unemployment rate. What I really like about this app is that you can clearly see how changes in the labor pool affect the [...]
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