Economy Archive

Highlights, lowlights, links, and the spectacle that is a deeply unserious administration ginning up domestic unrest against serious political opponents, from the Mere Rhetoric Twitter stream: I’m kind of skeptical that he is, actually | MT @markknoller: Obama says focused […]

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Highlights, lowlights, links, and big government innovation from Thanksgiving through the SOTU, from the Mere Rhetoric Twitter stream: I for one am glad to know that government is back in the business of picking winners and losers, esp in the […]

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There have been suggestions that the left’s Strange New Respect for “the inevitability of robust debate in a democracy” is exactly as obnoxious as their hypocritical sermonizing about political civility. That’s a little bit unfair, and it denies due credit […]

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This Sonntags Zeitung TV commercial from last December is a followup to a print ad they published in May 2009. The Swiss are entitled to a little smugness, insofar as they’re in the global top-5 for positive account balances while […]

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Highlights, lowlights, links, and great news about government regulation from the Mere Rhetoric Twitter stream: We brought regulators from Bulgaria to DC to teach them about our well-functioning agriculture subsidies policy. Umm… is.gd/fHxzS Good. Bc transportation costs don’t cascade thru […]

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Highlights, lowlights, links, and observations about the most competent administration ever, from the Mere Rhetoric Twitter stream: I’m just glad the Democrats have found a war they’re willing to fight. It’s against an inanimate oil slick – but baby steps! […]

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Highlights, lowlights, links, and tweets on the magnificence of The One’s power from the Mere Rhetoric Twitter stream: I’m increasingly bitter that my President can’t even bribe someone competently. It’s vaguely un-American frankly… Any chance The One can reverse the […]

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I think I stumbled across these on some jaded advertising blog, where they were tee-heeing over the idea that individual entitlements might be a sop for broader government centralization. A predictably disapprobative academic article identifies the bottom one as having […]

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Good. Because this is what you want with an industry that’s hemorrhaging money and just outright lost roughly 4 percent of its annual income because of incompetent EU regulators: In a major victory for organized labor, unions will have an […]