This morning, the Burlington Free Press had an article about the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA). This is a perfect example of big government causing more problems than it solves.
It’s great that the press is finally covering this. The only problem? It goes into effect tomorrow.
There was virtually no reporting of [...]
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This doesn’t look good.
Via, Washington Times:
President Obama’s economic recovery package will actually hurt the economy more in the long run than if he were to do nothing, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.
CBO, the official scorekeepers for legislation, said the House and Senate bills will help in the short term but result in so [...]
I spent the day yesterday at the Vermont Tiger symposium. It was a great event that brought together representatives from all sectors involved in re-shaping the Vermont economy for the future, along with people who have experience getting things done in their own neck of the woods. This is the kind of thing that could [...]
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I am going to be spending the day at the economic symposium sponsored by Vermont Tiger today. Check out the list of speakers and panelists (PDF).
I will not have my laptop with me, but I will be sure to fill you in later.
I will send updates to Twitter via cell phone. I’m @shesright, if you [...]
Republicans are acting like Republicans again.
The House passed the stimulus bill.
No Republicans voted for the bill
Man, that was lame. I almost fell asleep.
I really don’t have much to say about the debate. Normally after things like that, I spend hours re-playing it over in my head, taking it all in. Not this time.
I do have one question for Obama, though. He said that the greatest problem [...]
Okay, so a few of you just can’t seem to admit are not convinced that Fannie Mae had anything to do with the mortgage crisis. Here’s another attempt at making the point that the government created this financial crisis, not the free market.
Here’s how Fannie Mae is tied to the home mortgage crisis.
From The [...]
CNN has a commentary on the bailout by Jeffrey Miron, senior lecturer in economics at Harvard University. He’s a real libertarian, not just a conservative with libertarian leanings, like me.
Go have a look at it; it’s a pretty quick read.
He basically says what I said yesterday, that this is a government-created problem. Only, [...]
I have not said a whole lot about the bailout because there is just so much to this and I haven’t had time to put it all together in a post. There was also a lot going on and the final solution was still coming together.
Now that the bill failed in the House yesterday, [...]
So the surprising news this morning was that the Democrats and Bush agree on the terms of the bailout, but the Republicans are not on board.
People are shocked at this!
Conventional wisdom says that this type of bi-partisanship (Republican president, Democratic congress) means that the bill must be a good idea. So, why aren’t Republicans [...]
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