Posted on 24 September 2010. Tags: 100 000 Jobs, Basketball Game, Business Activity, Competitiveness, Election Day, Fir, Fish Ponds, Fisherman, Managing Director, Marginal Utility, New York Times, Nobel Economics, Nobel Laureate, Paul Krugman, Ponds, Recession, Ronald Reagan, S Paul, Sound Fiscal Policies, Spectator Article, Tax Cuts, Venture Capital Firm, Wishful Thinking, World Economic Forum
It’s not Friday without a ridiculous column in the New York Times by Nobel Economics Laureate Paul Krugman. Many times I want to respond. But I don’t really know anything about economics (makes me perfect for elected office, right?); when I took it in college I was stymied by the terms and concepts. They talked [...]
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Posted on 23 September 2010. Tags: Baltic, Conservatives, Corporate Taxes, David Cameron, Education Reform, Excitement, Financial Crisis, Financial Institutions, Fredrik Reinfeldt, Gordon Brown, Governance, Libertarian News, Lunch, Misadventures, Moderaterna, National Debt, Radar, Recession, Reelection, Scandinavia, Socialists, Spectator Article, Sweden, Swedish Elections, Text Message, Tories, Unusual Place
The recent Swedish elections did not register on my radar this time. I tend to skeptical of governance and elections in Scandinavia as socialists tend to dominate. However, my excitement grew as I read this Spectator (UK) article on how the conservatives won reelection: This week Fredrik Reinfeldt, a bald and deeply dull 45-year-old who [...]
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