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Late Changes Don’t Inspire Confidence in Wichita Government
Read more: Late Changes Don’t Inspire Confidence in Wichita GovernmentAt today’s Wichita City Council meeting, Councilmember Jim Skelton revealed that the plan for the downtown Wichita arena TIF district had changed. A provision for up to $10 million in parking was added. I had looked at the agenda report less than 24 hours before the start of the meeting. The plan for parking spending…
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Downtown Wichita Arena TIF District Still a Bad Idea
Read more: Downtown Wichita Arena TIF District Still a Bad IdeaSay no to expansion of the Center City South Redevelopment tax increment financing (TIF) District. Remarks to be delivered at the December 2, 2008 meeting of the Wichita City Council. Watch the video here. Mr. Mayor, Members of the Council: It is the case the the City of Wichita is proposing to limit this TIF…
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Ron Paul says “The Austrians were right”
Read more: Ron Paul says “The Austrians were right”Our government is “totally influenced by Keynesian economics.”
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New Deal Shouldn’t Be Our Template for Recovery
Read more: New Deal Shouldn’t Be Our Template for RecoveryCan huge government spending programs rescue our economy? Amity Shlaes doesn’t think so: The New Deal is Mr. Obama’s context for the giant infrastructure plan his new team is developing. If he proposes FDR-style recovery programs, then it is useful to establish whether those original programs actually brought recovery. The answer is, they didn’t. New…
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Kansas highways influence, for better or worse
Read more: Kansas highways influence, for better or worseA government highway in Kansas is praised, yet causes problems, say others.
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Walter Block on Economics in One Lesson
Read more: Walter Block on Economics in One LessonWalter Block talks about Economics in One Lesson, perhaps the most approachable book about economics. And, it’s a free-market, liberty-friendly, Austrian approach. What could be better?
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Susan Wagle for Kansas Senate President
Read more: Susan Wagle for Kansas Senate PresidentTomorrow, the Kansas Senate meets to select its leadership. Senate Republicans could do Kansans a favor by electing Susan Wagle of Wichita to be senate president.
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Pat Buchanan Tallies the Total
Read more: Pat Buchanan Tallies the TotalThe news from Washington over the past few months — $25 billion here, $700 billion there — is hard to keep track of. The amounts themselves are huge, but when added together, the sum is beyond comprehension. Pat Buchanan, in his column Socialist Republic, adds it up: Thus, we have the $700 billion Bush bank…
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New York Times: 10 Weeks of Financial Turmoil
Read more: New York Times: 10 Weeks of Financial TurmoilThe New York Times has a nicely-done interactive timeline of the events since September 7, 2008, when the government took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It holds video and links to news stories. It’s more than a little unsettling to replay these events. Click here to see the bad news.
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The Austrian Prescription for Today
Read more: The Austrian Prescription for TodayMurray N. Rothbard, in his book For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, wrote a chapter that is highly relevant to the situation we face today. Unfortunately, if Rothbard’s analysis of the business cycle using Austrian economics is correct — and I believe it is — what’s going on presently in Washington, and what president-elect…
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Obama Deserves a Scarlet “H” for Hypocrisy
Read more: Obama Deserves a Scarlet “H” for HypocrisyAt the Goldwater Institute, Clint Bolick exposes Barack Obama as another in a long line of politicians that deny school choice to the masses, but exercise it themselves: During the campaign, Obama stated that school choice doesn’t work. If he believes that, why not simply send the girls to whatever school the District of Columbia…
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Introducing Economics in One Lesson
Read more: Introducing Economics in One LessonIn This Book is So Me, Walter Block introduces a book that I’ve quoted from and used extensively: Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt. Every widespread economic fallacy embraced by pundits, politicians, editorialists, clergy, academics is given the back of the hand they so richly deserve by this author: that public works promote economic…