You Decide
Posted in Economics Problems on Jan 13th, 2009
Brad DeLong calls anyone who questions the fiscal stimulus on any grounds to be a partisan, unethical, Republican hack. Then I read this.
Daily Archive for January 13th, 2009
Suffering No Illusions
Posted in Politics on Jan 13th, 2009
Stronger opposition came from Democrats, who dismissed the $3,000 credit to employers for every job created or saved as ripe for abuse and difficult to administer. Oh, but an $800 billion stimulus package and a $3 trillion budget of funds that are not yours to begin with are immune to such issues. Read more here. […]
Why is Counterfeiting Illegal?
Posted in Government Gone Wild, Money on Jan 13th, 2009
The Treasury once estimated that roughly nine notes out of every million are counterfeits. Let’s put that in perspective. There is roughly $1 trillion in US currency floating around out there. This would seem to indicate that about $9 million worth of the notes in circulation are in fact fraudulent. Let’s see about “official” counterfeiting […]
