| | | | | Earlier this month, Neil Ferguson was awarded membership in the Bureaucrat Hall of Fame after he and his mistress were caught violating lockdown rules that Ferguson – in his role as a supposed public health expert – demanded for the entire United Kingdom. This wasContinue Reading
| | | | | I started sharing politically-themed coronavirus humor back in March and that’s now been a tradition for nine consecutive weekends (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here). This will be the final edition. We’ll start with a clever video from Kevin James.Continue Reading
| | | | | I wrote earlier this month about coronavirus becoming an excuse for more bad public policy. American politicians certainly have been pushing all sorts of proposals for bigger government, showing that they have embraced the notion that you don’t want to let a “crisis go toContinue Reading
| | | | | Politicians from New York want states to get a big bailout from Uncle Sam. I explained earlier this month that this would be a bad idea. Simply stated, the Empire State is in big trouble because it has a bloated government, not because of theContinue Reading
| | | | | When I write enough columns with the same underlying point, I sometimes create a special page to highlight the theme, such as the “Bureaucrat Hall of Fame” and “Poverty Hucksters.” I may have to do something similar for people who assert that America’s response toContinue Reading
| | | | | We bring you all the coronavirus benefits, how Amex limits cards, the battle of hotels vs Airbnb, we remember the good old Detroit Pistons Bad Boys, the best Covid-19 coverage that may save your life (or at least I would like to think so), playContinue Reading
| | | | | The good news is that there will be a record reduction next year in the burden of government spending. Unfortunately, the bad news is that this reduction will only occur because of gigantic spending increases this year. In this webinar, I explain how fiscal policyContinue Reading
| | | | | I’ve written four columns (here, here, here, and here) on the general failure of government health bureaucracies to effectively respond to the coronavirus. The pattern was so pronounced that it even led me to unveil a Seventh Theorem of Government. I’m not surprised at thisContinue Reading
| | | | | As a policy wonk, I wish people would get excited about my columns about topics such as “tax depreciation” and “trade data” and my missives about issues such as “budget concepts” and “cost-benefit analysis.” Instead, I notice that my humor-oriented columns generate a lot moreContinue Reading
| | | | | I’ve warned that the budgetary impact of the coronavirus may trigger another fiscal crisis in Europe. Especially Italy. But what about the United States? Will we reach a point, as Margaret Thatcher famously warned, of running out of other people’s money? We probably still haveContinue Reading
