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The Great Madoff Cop-Out

As half the world now knows, Bernie Madoff isn't going to trial.  He's expected to plead guilty on Thursday. From a legal strategy standpoint, the...

A Random Observation and Question

Free-market economics has an impressive intellectual grounding and makes a lot of sense.  It also happens to say that the people who hold all...

China's Problems are Our Problems

Apparently China is worried about the coming year being a period of "mass incidents".  This is in part because it is the anniversary of...

Are Congressional Democrats Cracking Up?

I don't know how many of you saw this interesting article in Politico yesterday about Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. For those who didn't,...

Wrong Argument

If Sam really wants to bleed the rich, he's absolutely fighting the wrong fight.  He couches his argument in empirical terms, while everyone knows...

Follow-up: Still Not John Galt

It's noteworthy how some right-wing bloggers seem just as interested in the idea that the poor don't work hard, as they are in the...

I'm Not John Galt

The conservative blogs are afire with Ayn Rand love. Apparently, by raising the top marginal tax rate back to where it was in the...

2010's Possibilities

Paradoxically, the more seats the Democrats lose in the House, the more likely it is to shift the agenda to the left.  The current...

GM: A Case Study for Single-Payer Healthcare

So auditors are now reporting that GM's long-term viability is, to put it charitably, a little bit doubtful. When this sort of language is...

Obama's Note to Russia

So I have not yet gotten around to Obama's alleged secret note to Russian President Medvedev.  In it, he seems to propose a quid...