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Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 29, 2014 22 Comments
Professor Jacobson just asked if a Toyota can get from California to Texas on single tank of gas? As a Californian, I would like to answer that question. First, you need to know that California Governor Jerry Brown recently said Rick Perry’s efforts to recruit...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on May 21, 2013 37 Comments
Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) has been a focus here over the years because he’s Professor Jacobson’s home state Senator.  Whitehouse’s speech against opponents of Obamacare, in which he invoked Kristallnacht and lynchings, is legendary in the wrong way: History cautions us of the excesses to which...

Posted by David Gerstman on April 27, 2013 15 Comments
The Rich get Richer When the Washington Post endorsed President Obama for his first term in office, part of the paper’s pitch was economic: OF COURSE, Mr. Obama offers a great deal more than being not a Republican. There are two sets of issues that...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 19, 2013 37 Comments
One of the iconic “proofs” of man-made global warming is the infamous “hockey stick” graph”. Skeptics questioned the statistics and data used to generate the graph.  So, as Powerline’s John Hinderaker noted, “a group of climate alarmists headed by Shaun Marcott, a geologist at Oregon State,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 16, 2013 31 Comments
In her debut on the Senate Banking Committee, Elizabeth Warren once again became the hero of the left because she embarrassed Hapless Bank Regulators, as the Huffington Post put it: Bank regulators got a sense Thursday of how their lives will be slightly different now that...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 28, 2013 21 Comments
Many politicians fail to understand an inherent point of economics I refer to as the “Star Wars Tax Rule”:  The more you tighten the tax grip, the more revenues will slip through your fingers. Today, I would like to highlight three recent news items that...
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