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More Minimum Wage Games

  • Politics
March 15, 2014June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I am in New York City again, and the hard copy New York Sunday Times was delivered to my room.  As usual there is interesting stuff in it, despite some of their editorial policies.  In particular there are two articles […]

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Why I Won’t Support Unz’s Minimum Wage Initiative – And What I Will Support

  • Economics
January 24, 2014July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Some important people on the Right, starting with the maverick Ron Unz but apparently including such as Phyllis Schlafly and Bill O’Reilly, have come out in favor of a higher minimum wage, such as $12 per hour. The argument against […]

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Minimum Wages: A Modest Proposal

  • Politics
January 3, 2013December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Ron Unz, generally considered a conservative but quirky, came out for a radical increase in the minimum wage here last year, not something you generally expect of conservatives, but then Ron Unz and his magazine, The American Conservative, generally take […]

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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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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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What I Fear

  • Politics
March 14, 2011July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The poll shows that, while Americans do not greatly love labor unions overall, they seem to want to defend the collective bargaining rights of the public sector.  What is frightening about this is that the public is very cynical nowadays […]

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Jonathan V. Last, Part 2: Testing

  • Culture
November 2, 2010June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I will discuss Mr. Last’s article again, for he also made an important point that I had never heard of before, and that had nothing to do with the land-use issues which Blue Kennel takes a great interest in. It […]

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When I Was Young in the 1950s and Early 60s…

  • Culture
August 16, 2010December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

When I was young in the 1950s and early 60s it was just assumed that ‘progress’ was leading us toward a life of more and more leisure and that work was going to get easier and easier.  Actually, it didn’t […]

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Why There’s Not Much Intellectual Activity in Orange County

  • California
November 9, 2009July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

My friend asked me to write on why there isn’t much intellectual activity in Orange County. My basic answer is a simple one. First, it isn’t considered healthy. Second, it’s too much like work. Third, it’s not considered character-building. Actually, […]

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