About two years ago I wrote an article saying that despite the lack of evidence, and despite the near-universal belief among economists that it was not a problem, I was worried about inflation. My reason was that I couldn’t see how the government could pay off the massive debt it was running up except by inflating at [...]
Romney Debates Romney About Health-Care Reform: Michael Kinsley
OK, let’s go through this one more time. In 2006, Mitt Romney, as governor of Massachusetts, guided to passage, signed with a flourish and implemented with fanfare a health-care reform law for his state. It was intended to achieve universal health coverage — a long-standing liberal goal that was not even on the Democrats’ national agenda, let alone [...]
Free Joe Wilson: Enough with the phony umbrage
Originally posted in: The News Journal (Wilmington, Delaware) Rep. Joe Wilson, the Republican from South Carolina who shouted “You lie” during President Obama’s health-care address to Congress, has already apologized at least twice: once in a statement issued by his office and once in a phone call to the White House. He tried to reach [...]