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Although Tuesday's "Potomac Primaries" aren't the biggest contests this primary season, the resounding wins by John McCain in DC and Maryland, and his 10-point victory in Virginia, a state which Mike Huckabee had hoped to make competitive, were reminisce… more »

Here's a great article from the February 5th edition of the Wall Street Journal, describing (as I already said in these pages) how the "stimulus plan"'s major effect will be to increase our deficit, and how that increase gives a powerful political weapon… more »

re "Money from Uncle Sam", Boulder Daily Camera, 1/25/08 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2008/jan/25/money-from-uncle-sam/ One of the biggest problems with the federal government’s so-called “stimulus package” is well represented by your January 25th… more »

Here's a great article by Bill Wilby in the Wall Street Journal discussing the tremendous damage being done to our economy and our nation by the Fed's abandoning any pretense of caring about the strength of the dollar: The Dollar and the Market Mess… more »

Right back into the realm of economic literacy, here's a brilliant opinion piece by Don Boudreaux regarding the futility (or worse) of the "stimulus package" we're likely to get from our government: The foolishness of economic 'stimulus' Do we really… more »

If any of you are interested in receiving short daily or almost-daily emails from Brian Wesbury (mostly about the real economy, economic statistics, financial markets, etc.) and/or from Don Boudreaux (mostly about political economy, economic philosophy,… more »

In a timely move (and ironic, given the blog posting I had already written for today) which I hope was caused by Brian Caplan and me and others repeating so frequently that the average voter is economically illiterate, President Bush on Tuesday signed an… more »

A reader of these pages wrote a comment which was chock full of the worst sort of populist nonsensical economic proposals. It's the kind of stuff that we get, usually in pieces...not all in one place...from Democrats, isolationists, and populist panderer… more »

For today's reading, please see my article at HumanEvents.com: "Market Madness, Ross Kaminsky, HumanEvents.com, 1/23/08 http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24608 more »

Americans for Tax Reform, headed up by Grover Norquist, has released this "matrix" which shows the major presidential candidates' positions on various tax-related matters, from repealing the AMT and the Death Tax to cutting corporate tax rates and improv… more »