RSSEconomic Issues Archives
September 19, 2009
US Health Care Political Debate: The Core (ReDux)
Just narrowing down the feeling that my thoughts from a prior post are indeed confirmed, just by watching the tenor of things in this country. Here I summarize the political conflict more succinctly.
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Posted by Matthew Hogan at 09:02 AM | Comments (3)
September 11, 2009
US Healthcare Debate: The Underlying Sensibilities
Despite my happy guilty plea to being a near-fanatic libertarian, I do not have strong feelings about the current US health care debate. Not because I heretically think my principles don't apply, it's just that no matter what happens, the economics of modern health care in the industrialized world will not cause the roof to cave in for at least a few indefinite generations, regardless of the mixed (as in US), market-based (if that ever has existed), or socialized systems that may exist.
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April 12, 2009
Keynes Enabled
Keynesianism is only a few weeks into official respectability here in the superpower, and already there is self-parody. ("The idea's to stimulate the economy. So what if we blow a few billion on the wrong things? ")
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Posted by Matthew Hogan at 07:24 AM | Comments (0)
December 15, 2007
Population Control Propaganda Slipped Casually In
In the middle of a Washington Post story on China now experiencing a population increase, in part due to the erosion of its totalitarian forced one-child policy, this paragraph of population control propaganda slips in without even the decency of legitimate weasel words like "many say" or "officials say" or "is widely held":
For more than three decades, China has imposed tight controls on population growth. By limiting how many people compete for scarce resources, the country has been able to lift millions out of poverty.
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