Gotta placate those teachers: Since the city’s recovery from the 1975 fiscal crisis, mayors and the media have treated the city’s budget-day announcement as a sober technocratic event. Mayor de Blasio, by contrast, used his annual unveiling of the city’s … Continue reading →
There are so many crises generated by the Obama administration that it’s easy to lose sight of some. But in just a little over a week a probable new one will be unleashed when the EPA announces rules for existing … Continue reading →
You might want to take a look at this summary of the varied ways in which Obamacare pays off the health insurance companies who play ball with the exchanges: risk adjustment, reinsurance, and risk corridors.
Continue reading →The left certainly hopes so. My new article is up at PJ.
Continue reading →I don’t know much about the agenda of the authors of this Politico piece entitled “Wall Street Republicans’ dark secret: Hillary Clinton 2016.” I’m going to assume they have one, though, and that it’s not to help the 2016 Republican … Continue reading →
Here’s an article on Piketty’s book that seems less political than most, and more about analyzing the nitty gritty of what he says.
Continue reading →Sometimes there’s so much out there it’s hard to keep up. For instance, although I’d heard of the Pay As You Earn program, the details had previously passed under my radar screen. But my oh my, the set-up’s clever: But … Continue reading →
…are revealing themselves to be the leftists that they actually are. I said as much in my Piketty post when I wrote: In case you’re wondering, Piketty’s book has been hailed almost universally on the left””and by “left” I mean … Continue reading →
Yes indeed, that’ll fix it, according to French economist Thomas Piketty: Piketty’s terror at rising inequality is an important data point for the reader. It has perhaps influenced his judgment and his tendentious reading of his own evidence. It could … Continue reading →
…according to the CBO. I freely admit that a true understanding of the deficit and the real reasons (as opposed to stated reasons) for its rise and/or fall has thus far evaded me. So I leave it up to you … Continue reading →
Eight of ’em. I especially like numbers one and and three. Here’s the first: It will take you 111 days this year just to pay off the government. That’s an average, of course. But something called the Tax Foundation would … Continue reading →
I’ve heard for years, perhaps even decades, that the oft-quoted statistic about women’s wages being so much lower than men’s as a result of wage discrimination is a myth, an artifact of other factors than discrimination. So this sort of … Continue reading →