http://www.politicalcraft.com/ Political Craft en Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:26:00 GMT Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:26:00 GMT info@politicalcraft.com info@politicalcraft.com http://www.politicalcraft.com/the-buy-american-fallacy/ Watch this short video over at Reason.tv to learn why "Buy American" is not such a great idea. http://www.politicalcraft.com/the-buy-american-fallacy/#comments http://www.politicalcraft.com/the-buy-american-fallacy/ Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:26:00 GMT http://www.politicalcraft.com/la-mayor-aka-you-will-pay-for-michael-jacksons-funeral/ Michael Jackson's funeral ended up costing the city approximately $1.4 million. To help fund the city's expenses, the acting mayor, while the real mayor was on vacation, set up a... http://www.politicalcraft.com/la-mayor-aka-you-will-pay-for-michael-jacksons-funeral/#comments http://www.politicalcraft.com/la-mayor-aka-you-will-pay-for-michael-jacksons-funeral/ Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:13:00 GMT http://www.politicalcraft.com/keeping-obama-honest/ Great post by Greg Mankiw at his blog: President Obama will hold a press conference this coming Wednesday. Here are two questions I would like to see the press ask... http://www.politicalcraft.com/keeping-obama-honest/#comments http://www.politicalcraft.com/keeping-obama-honest/ Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:40:00 GMT http://www.politicalcraft.com/not-a-54-surtax-but-a-154-surtax/ The media is reporting the House Democrats plan to place a 5.4% surtax on income over $350,000. However, this is a misrepresentation of the true increase of the tax. Currently... http://www.politicalcraft.com/not-a-54-surtax-but-a-154-surtax/#comments http://www.politicalcraft.com/not-a-54-surtax-but-a-154-surtax/ Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:07:00 GMT http://www.politicalcraft.com/instead-of-bailouts-what-should-we-have-done/ Harvard's Jeffrey Miron says "Nothing," which by this he means "nothing new:" The fundamental problem underlying the financial crisis was government policy. Instead of undertaking enormous new policies, we should... http://www.politicalcraft.com/instead-of-bailouts-what-should-we-have-done/#comments http://www.politicalcraft.com/instead-of-bailouts-what-should-we-have-done/ Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:05:00 GMT http://www.politicalcraft.com/obama-to-make-it-harder-for-legal-immigrants-to-get-hired/ According to the Wall Street Journal, The Obama administration announced a crackdown Wednesday on hundreds of companies suspected of employing illegal immigrants, signaling a shift in strategy: going after employers... http://www.politicalcraft.com/obama-to-make-it-harder-for-legal-immigrants-to-get-hired/#comments http://www.politicalcraft.com/obama-to-make-it-harder-for-legal-immigrants-to-get-hired/ Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:09:00 GMT http://www.politicalcraft.com/prosperity-essential-to-survival/ It seems that people do not fully appreciate the importance of having a high Gross Domestic Product. A country that produces $20,000 per person is not better off just because... http://www.politicalcraft.com/prosperity-essential-to-survival/#comments http://www.politicalcraft.com/prosperity-essential-to-survival/ Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:41:00 GMT http://www.politicalcraft.com/milton-friedmans-wisdom-on-health-care/ Read the whole thing. Excerpts: Two simple observations are key to explaining both the high level of spending on medical care and the dissatisfaction with that spending. The first is... http://www.politicalcraft.com/milton-friedmans-wisdom-on-health-care/#comments http://www.politicalcraft.com/milton-friedmans-wisdom-on-health-care/ Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:39:00 GMT http://www.politicalcraft.com/the-future-of-health-care/ Economist David Rose has written a great article on how to fix health care. He asserts that the problem with the health insurance market is a lack of competition: The... http://www.politicalcraft.com/the-future-of-health-care/#comments http://www.politicalcraft.com/the-future-of-health-care/ Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:53:00 GMT http://www.politicalcraft.com/philosophizing-on-immigration-and-social-democracy/ Over at Econlog, Bryan Caplan has a great defense of free immigration and a great criticism of advocates of Social Democracy: Reading Brad DeLong's "non-Socratic dialogue on social welfare functions... http://www.politicalcraft.com/philosophizing-on-immigration-and-social-democracy/#comments http://www.politicalcraft.com/philosophizing-on-immigration-and-social-democracy/ Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:55:00 GMT http://www.politicalcraft.com/bankruptcy-for-gm-long-overdue/ Dan Ikenson wrote a great article called What Was the Point of Bailing out GM?. You should read the whole thing. Excerpt: That was the original sin. George W. Bush... http://www.politicalcraft.com/bankruptcy-for-gm-long-overdue/#comments http://www.politicalcraft.com/bankruptcy-for-gm-long-overdue/ Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:13:00 GMT http://www.politicalcraft.com/gm-declares-bankruptcy-government-owns-60/ This is what we get when bad economics/politics trumps good economics. Consumers decided that GM no longer provided cars they wanted to buy. As a result, GM could not maintain... http://www.politicalcraft.com/gm-declares-bankruptcy-government-owns-60/#comments http://www.politicalcraft.com/gm-declares-bankruptcy-government-owns-60/ Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:05:00 GMT http://www.politicalcraft.com/what-will-obamacare-look-like/ Michael Tanner sees the future of healthcare in America, and he does not like it; While the Obama administration has not, and does not seem likely to, put forward a... http://www.politicalcraft.com/what-will-obamacare-look-like/#comments http://www.politicalcraft.com/what-will-obamacare-look-like/ Fri, 22 May 2009 13:04:00 GMT http://www.politicalcraft.com/is-deregulation-to-blame/ From the New York Times: Human beings are as good at devising ex post facto explanations for big disasters as they are bad at anticipating those disasters. It is indeed... http://www.politicalcraft.com/is-deregulation-to-blame/#comments http://www.politicalcraft.com/is-deregulation-to-blame/ Fri, 22 May 2009 12:53:00 GMT http://www.politicalcraft.com/links-on-cafe-standards/ These links lay out the distortions created by Obama's proposed tougher fuel standards. David Henderson: The Coming Auto Boom Under the Obama proposal, which is not yet a fait accompli... http://www.politicalcraft.com/links-on-cafe-standards/#comments http://www.politicalcraft.com/links-on-cafe-standards/ Fri, 22 May 2009 12:50:00 GMT