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We’re The Trustfunders!

  • Economics
February 10, 2012July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Actually, Forbes is as prejudiced as Occupy.  You can’t generalize about us one percenters.  Some have indeed provided excellent products and services, or done good philanthropic work.  Some have made money without doing much really productive for society, like hedgefunders. […]

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Obama’s Dilemma, High Speed Rail, the Civilian Conservation Corps, and Other Miscellaneous Observations

  • Economics
February 1, 2012July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Joel Kotkin, director of one of our favorite sites, Newgeography.com, has exposed how Obama has alienated people on all sides, even though he will probably win the election.  I notice, now that I think about it, that while the Occupy […]

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On the Whole Postmodern in Law and Economics Thing

  • Economics
January 18, 2012July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Victor Davis Hanson, in this attached essay, claims that President Obama has a postmodern vision of law. I am not necessarily going to argue that point. I have maintained, already, that President Obama has what I call an allergy to […]

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How to do Deficit Spending or The Trouble with Keynesianism

  • Economics
December 8, 2011July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The prescriptions of John Maynard Keynes have been controversial since his time:  the idea of deficit spending for “priming the pump,” the idea of the “paradox of thrift,” and others that seemed to go contrary to traditional financial virtues.  Many […]

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Why Non-Suburbanites Distrust Suburbanites

  • Economics
August 30, 2011July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I’ve had the great Arcade Fire album, The Suburbs, on in my car recently, and have been inspired by it to a few thoughts. Most people, especially people with children, aspire to a real house and not a condominium or an […]

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The Two Income Trap

  • Economics
August 29, 2011July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

We have referred to Ms. Warren and Ms. Tyagi”s book, The Two Income Trap, rather often in these pages. When Obama wanted to appoint her consumer czar, she was attacked. Here is Christopher Caldwell, of the neocon magazine The Weekly […]

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Raise Revenues by Reducing Taxes?

  • Economics
July 16, 2011July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Now, Ramesh Ponnuru, long time of National Review, sees it. And Pawlenty is still convinced we are above the tip of the Laffer Curve, and that there are more revenues to be got by reducing taxes. This is debatable. Related: […]

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This President Triangulates the Debt

  • Economics
July 14, 2011July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Obama has been willing, in his desperation, to reform Social Security.  Like Clinton and Welfare Reform.  Maybe the Republicans forced him to it, but you could say the same of Clinton.  And maybe only Obama could have taken on Social […]

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Who is tossing whom over a cliff?

  • Economics,
  • Politics
July 6, 2011July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

This column by Chris Laureys of New Jersey is one of the best I’ve ever seen on the distortions of our current welfare state. Related: “Who is tossing whom over a cliff?” by Chris Laureys at USAToday.com

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Once Again, the Laffer Curve Curves

  • Economics,
  • Politics
May 9, 2011December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Michael Barone, whom I usually respect, confuses, like most Republicans, the issue about tax rates. Yes, when Kennedy cut the top rate from 90% to 70%, federal revenues did actually go up. And when Reagan cut the top rate to […]

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I’m more on the right and I’d like to see the filibuster gone - of the Republicans take back the Senate - party time! https://apple.news/AX6uolPNWQHGj8Cay6H9d-g

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A better way to get affordable housing is filtering - handing down housing that’s already built. We do that with cars. https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2022-06-20/california-affordable-housing-cost-1-million-apartment

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If we’re talking about wearing shorts to the office, seven inch “walking shorts”, as we used to call them, are fine for that. If I’m going to swim, five or four is better. Can’t really do Speedo’s though. https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-tiktok-convinced-men-to-buy-really-short-shorts-11598277834

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