American economist
Alan Reynolds writes at National Review Online about critical problems within common arguments against Big Tech. Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Google are being threatened with costly antitrust suits and possible…
That president would be Teddy Roosevelt, who was full of blustery statist ideas. Little wonder that Krugman likes him. Alan Reynolds comments here on the mistaken notion that TR has…
Always looking for excuses to expand the power of the government, leftists have been arguing that research now proves how income inequality hampers economic growth. Cato Institute’s Alan Reynolds thrashes…
Alan Reynolds of the Cato Institute explains for National Review Online readers why most media accounts have missed the mark while attempting to explain new data regarding America’s top “1…
If so, you will want to read this Cato@Liberty post by Alan Reynolds. He smashes the breezy claim that the country needs more “stimulus” and the way to get it…
Can Americans learn lessons from the fiscal policies of other developed countries around the globe? Of course, as long as they’re the correct lessons from good examples. Alan Reynolds of…
The Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner uses his latest National Review Online column to correct the misstated record of income inequality in the United States. [F]or all the sound and fury…
If you’re in a funk about the current state of the economy and the government’s approach to it, you might want to skip the closing paragraphs of Lawrence Kudlow‘s latest…
Paul Krugman, that is, here by Alan Reynolds. Krugman keeps wailing that nations facing huge government deficits need more government spending to “stimulate” the economy and that “savage austerity” (meaning…
Obama said (inadvertently, so we can actually be sure he meant it) during the campaign last fall that it was good to redistribute income. It turns out that the “health…
Cato Institute writer Alan Reynolds posted an indispensable piece on the Cato At Liberty blog the other day. Like Alan, I’ve been struck by the bizarre parochialism of the news…
Can any of the various plans offered by political candidates accomplish anything good? No, argues Alan Reynolds here. Reynolds correctly observes that “some business mistakes require time to be fixed.…