No one thought reforming health care was going to be easy. But with a Democratic congress working with a Democratic president, and with the failed Clinton initiative serving as a template of how not to get it done, perhaps no one thought it was going to be quite this hard. From CQ Politics today: The [...]

Seen this one yet? Over at the free market-oriented Division of Labour blog, a section called From ABBA to Zeppelin “offers a variety of song lyrics that instructors of economics may find useful in teaching economics. Each post includes a selection from the song’s lyrics and a brief assignment for students.” From the site: “Career [...]

Before the Cash for Clunkers program got under way, many bloggers wrote about its  imminent failure. The title of a typical clunker-debunker post read something like  “Why ‘Cash For Clunkers’ Won’t Work” and went on to elucidate the failed logic of attempting to incentivize the lemon-driving population. As it turned out, eager recipients of the [...]

The New York Time ran a story yesterday on John A. Allison IV, the former head of North Carolina banking success BB&T. Allison, now retired, is a vocal adherent of “objectivism,” the philosophical system developed by author Ayn Rand that embraced pure free-market capitalism. Another Rand acolyte is, famously, Alan Greenspan. The laissez-faire set, which [...]