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Present George Will Agrees with Past George Will, For Once
Tweet Share on Facebook October 29, 2011 Comment (5)George Will's Sunday column is making the rounds even before the weekend starts.
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Imagining Mitt Romney Economics in Action
Tweet Share on Facebook October 27, 2011 Comment (3)So, Scott. You complain a lot about the staleness and rigidity of conservative economic orthodoxy. What's your problem, then, with Mitt Romney? Isn't he just the type of slippery character who will ditch the pandering on January 21, 2013, and govern like a problem-solver?
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What Drives Growth: Consumer Debt or Corporate Investment?
Tweet Share on Facebook October 27, 2011 Comment (2)Here's an economic thesis to make your hair stand on end:
I'm going to let you in on the best-kept secret of the last century: private investment—that is, using business profits to increase productivity and output—doesn't actually drive economic growth. Consumer debt and government spending do. Private investment isn't even necessary to promote growth.
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What the Founders Would Think of Occupy Wall Street
Tweet Share on Facebook October 25, 2011 Comment (9)If you haven't already checked out blogger Will Wilkinson's work at BigThink.com, do yourself the favor. His post this morning on John Rawls—the preeminent modern liberal philosopher of the 20th century—is worth a read.
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'Left' vs. 'Right' Debate Not Solving Our Economic Problems
Tweet Share on Facebook October 24, 2011 Comment (8)Last week, I passed along a quote from the sociologist Robert Nisbet about the parallel growth of central governments and individualism.
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What Bush's 'Compassionate Conservatism' Got Right
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Occupy Wall Street Movement Is Nothing to Worry About
Tweet Share on Facebook October 20, 2011 Comment (12)At Big Hollywood, you can watch actor Alec Baldwin deftly parrying anti-Fed kookery at the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City's Zuccotti Park.
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What to Love About the Republican Presidential Debates
Tweet Share on Facebook October 20, 2011 Comment (2)"I disagree in some respects with Congressman Paul, who says the country is founded on the individual. The basic building block of a society is not an individual. It's the family. That's the basic unit of society." —Former Sen. Rick Santorum, at Tuesday's Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas.
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Tea Party Not Serious About Entitlement Reform
Tweet Share on Facebook October 18, 2011 Comment (7)Via National Review's David French, here's a New York Times report on a 40,000-member Tea Party "commission" on reducing the federal budget deficit.
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What Obama Should Tell the 'Occupy Wall Street' Movement
Tweet Share on Facebook October 17, 2011 Comment (10)My admittedly impressionistic sense of the "Occupy Wall Street" movement is that those who are protesting would like to see radical change in the way our economy is structured: that the very system of finance capitalism is the root of our troubles.
