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No Bailout for California
Is it possible to extort California into adopting better tax policy?
The Economic Tragedy of Argentina
What a sad fall.
In One Picture, Everything You Need to Know about Government
Why are there so many bad and corrupt people in government?
Everything You Need to Know about America’s Future Entitlement Crisis
Before our depressing discussion today about the fiscal impact of entitlement programs (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, EITC, Food Stamps, welfare, and Obamacare, etc), here’s a video of how it all began. I think this is a great introduction to the issue,…
The Most (Unintentionally) Accurate Tweet about Washington
This tweet could have come from the Libertarian Party.
From San Francisco, Another Great Moment in Local Government
The latest bit of upside-down governance from The City by the Bay.
A Fiscal Joke, Not a Grand Bargain
Even Republicans aren’t stupid enough to go along with this kind of deal.
Poor People and Minorities Are Victimized by “Predatory Cities”
They see people as ATMs.
Fiscal Fantasyland
A novelist tries his hand at a new form of fiction.