Government spending never enhances economic growth precisely because governments only have money to spend insofar as they have taxable access to private economic activity. In other words, government spending is an effect of economic growth, never an instigator. Except that the challenges of government spending don’t just stop right there. Take the difficulties that […]
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While politicians frequently and incorrectly demagogue trade as harmful, the enterprising in the proverbial arena have long been looking for ways to bring people closer together not just so that they can exchange goods and services, but also so that they can divide up work that enables the production of exponentially more in the
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A recent story in the Wall Street Journal indicated that Manhattan Institute scholar Christopher Rufo is set to meet with President-Elect Trump’s team to discuss a plan “to geld American universities by withholding money if they don’t pull back on diversity measures.” How dangerous, and how very anti-conservative. Think about it. Underlying Rufo’s aim is to use the federal
It’s Not Conservative for Conservatives To Spend the Money of Others Read More »
If Congress relied on federal printing presses to fund its spending, then by definition the spending footprint of Congress would be very small. Yes, you read that right. No need to read it again. To understand why this is true, stop and think what the market reaction would be if it were actually true
Governments Reliant On the ‘Printing Press’ Are Notably Small Read More »
“If you want to know what raising a family might look like under a Kamala Harris presidency, look to this Rust Belt city.” Those are the words of Washington Post economics columnist Catherine Rampell. Rampell is referencing what she deems “an innovative, pro-family program that has become a key plank of Harris’s economic agenda: giving newborn babies $6,000
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