Keynes the Destroyer

          Claude Frédéric Bastiat was a nineteenth century French political and economic philosopher.  In his famous work titled That Which is Seen and That Which is Unseen, Bastiat sets up…

Keynesian Bubble Reinflation

Mario Rizzo at NYU has a great article has a great article in this issue of the Freeman explaining how Keynesian stimulus packages can’t restore…

Why Are You REALLY Opposed to the Stimulus?

Opening my public policy class last night, the professor brought up an interesting question regarding the "stimulus" package: what seems to be the public's response and why are they reacting…

Why Pork and not Economics?

Many of those who have been criticizing Obama’s stimulus package have been arguing that it’s filled with pork that won’t create jobs or help to end the recession.  That’s true.  But,…