“My procedural complaints are somewhat more obscure. The biggest one is that I am beginning to believe that in order to get this bill passed, the Democrats basically gutted the CBO. Not because they were working with the CBO to get estimates–that’s the CBO’s job, to provide Congress with a cost. But rather, because this […]
Archive for December, 2009
Dec14th2009
How The Minimum Wage Harms Minorities The Most
Published by in Economics, Hispanics (Minority Issues) and Minimum Wage. 18 CommentsA while back I explained this in a post titled, “The Minority Case Against The Minimum Wage“, see here. Economist Steven Horwitz makes the same argument with less verbiage:
During his campaign for the presidency, Barack Obama promised that, in contrast to his predecessor, his presidency would be a “science presidency.” In his first year, […]
Dec8th2009
“One way to quickly improve any university would be to eliminate the bottom 25 percent of teachers and replace them with online instruction from outside the university. Maybe online instructors cannot compete with high-quality in-person professors, but they can certainly replace the worst.” — Arnold Kling
