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Fudging the unemployment numbers to make the regime look better
That evidently is just what happened last fall during the stretch run of the presidential campaign, as we read in this piece. One more of those anything to win bits…
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Protectionism, state college style
Berry College in Georgia wanted to use billboard advertising over the state line in Tennessee, and ran into discriminatory rules enforced by the Tennessee Higher Education Commission. In this case,…
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Slick ad campaign meant to trick young people
That would be the $9 million that Minnesota is spending on ads to dragoon young Americans into signing up for Obamacare insurance. Frank Stephenson has the details in this Division…
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FDR didn’t end the Depression and neither did WWII
That’s the argument of this new paper published by the Independent Institute. Hat tip: Frank Stephenson
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Protectionism for US tomato growers
JLF friend Frank Stephenson (chairman of the Economics Department at Berry College in Georgia) has this nicely barbed letter in today’s Wall Street Journal apropos of the administration’s new trade…
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Will raising the minimum wage “strengthen the economy”?
Locke Foundation friend and NC expat Frank Stephenson demolishes a writer who claims that raising the minimum wage would be a good move.
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When our money burns a hole in their pockets
A hat tip to our friend Frank Stephenson for this story in the Rome, GA paper. Local officials are looking for ways to spend (oops — the right word is…
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How did economics get its nickname “the dismal science”?
If you don’t know, North Carolina expat Frank Stephenson, now chairman of the Economics Department at Berry College in Georgia, explains it here.
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Behind General Motors’ “comeback”
I have been hearing ads claiming that Chevy “has had its best year ever.” Perhaps that is because GM is extending credit to far more buyers who have very poor…
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The false “wage stagnation” claim
Statists who like excuses for increased government meddling in our lives will resort to almost anything. One of the most popular factoids these days is the claim that wages have…
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The real effects of private equity firms
Looking for anything to club Romney with, Newt Gingrich decided that his best shot was to demonize private equity firms. They just destroy jobs while making a few rich people…
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An amazingly ignorant N&O editorial
North Carolina expatriate Frank Stephenson (now chairman of the economics department at Berry College in GA) sent me the link to this amazingly ignorant editorial in the N&O. Just to…