The Unbroken Window

Presidential candidates are likely to gain lots of popular votes with a class-warfare rhetoric which include proposals to increase taxes only on the richest in society (about $200,000 of income per year). But, these same candidates when in Congress and the Senate simply cannot help but lavishing billions of dollars on tax payers making far […]

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My local ward representative, who just ran unopposed for reelection, sent out an e-mail talking about our city’s plans for redeveloping a blighted area of my neighborhood (Elm Street) and also a plan to require local schools to purchase a portion of their food from local sources. Needless to say, I was not thrilled […]

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We examine whether partisan political differences have important effects on policy outcomes at the local level using a new panel data set of mayoral elections in the United States. Applying a regression discontinuity design to deal with the endogeneity of the mayor’s party, we find that party labels do not affect the size of government, […]

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Here’s more from Keynes:

It is the method of modern statesman to talk as much folly as the public demand and to practise no more of it than what is compatible with what they have said, trusting that such folly in action as must wait on folly in word will soon disclose itself as such, and furnish […]

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Hint: It is not President Bush the Second.
Does not this provision reduce the UN (my edit), so far as concerns an early reconsideration of any of the terms of the Peace Treaty, into a body merely for wasting time? If all the parties to the Treaty are unanimously of opinion that it requires alteration in […]

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