Taxes,Depression,and Our Current Troubles

By Art Laffer,Wall Street Journal

Obama is repeating the mistakes that worsened the Great Depression

The 1930s has become the sole object lesson for today’s monetary policy. Over the past 12 months,the Federal Reserve has increased the monetary base (bank reserves plus currency in circulation) by well over [...]

White House Can’t Get Prognosis Right,Let Alone Prescription For The Problem

 

By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON,Investors Business Daily

Obama talks economics with Jay Leno in Hollywood

When it comes to our complex economy,President Obama would do well to heed the physician’s ancient commandment to first “do no harm.”

Instead,Obama’s administration has been prescribing all sorts of multibillion-dollar borrowing [...]

Obama’s New Deal

By Jeffery T. Kuhner,Washington Times

Obama Wants to Be like FDR

President-elect Barack Obama and his team are modeling their domestic agenda on President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Keynesian liberalism. They are seeking to forge a modern,21st century version of the New Deal. There is,however,one major problem. The original [...]