Because government and business are fundamentally different in their financing and their evaluation, good business practices can make for poor governing. The election cycle regularly brings forth successful businesspeople who argue that voters should select them for public office over seasoned politicians because of the skills and experience they acquired in the business sector. In […]
There were many passages from Hillary Clinton’s recent address at the New School that I wasn’t crazy about, but for now I’ll just focus on one of them. In the course of describing the many ways she hopes to revitalize the American economy, Clinton turned to infrastructure: Then there are the new public investments that […]
Former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley is readying himself for a White House run. His recent rhetoric on economics shows that he will run to the left of Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton. After two terms of an unpopular left-wing president, that is surely the last thing the country needs. The good news is that O’Malley has […]
Stephen Moore, a policy advisor for the Leadership Project for America Foundation and one of the leading proponents of free-market economics in the country, has an analysis “Keep the Spending Caps” over at the Heritage Foundation’s web site (where he holds the position of Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the Institute for Economic Freedom and Opportunity) […]
The Republican chairmen of the House and Senate Budget Committees put out their budgets recently, and have succeeded in passing the respective proposals. The House proposal is here and the Senate proposal is here; both plans are roughly the same. It’s nice to see the budget process follow its “regular order,” although there’s still a long way to go […]