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Don't just stand there, do something!
Don't just stand there, do something!
Tyler Cowen calls this , from Warren Buffet, the best argument for stimulus so far: All you know is you throw everything at it and whether it's more effective if you're fighting a fire to be concentrating the water flow on this part or that part. You're going to use every weapon you have in ...
Strange Time To Take A Stand
Strange Time To Take A Stand
amconmag.com — It continues to mystify me how John Boehner remains the leader of the House Republicans. The Republican... stimulus vote was remarkable in how politically tone-deaf it was. The bill as presented to the House shouldn't have passed, but it is striking how ... (more) Strange Time To Take A Stand
 Behind the Scenes: Republicans Stand Up for Taxpayers (video)
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Behind the Scenes: Republicans Stand Up for Taxpayers (video)
youtube.com — Spend a day with the House GOP Leadership as they take a stand against House Democrats' $1... trillion government spending package. (more) Behind the Scenes: Republicans Stand Up for Taxpayers ...
Where do the American people stand on the stimulus? (by Russell Roberts)
Where do the American people stand on the stimulus? (by Russell Roberts)
cafehayek.com — In this post, I speculated that many (most) Americans were skeptical of the stimulus package. In the... comments, Minus Ten cites a WSJ article and poll. The headline: Obama, Stimulus Proposals Enjoy Broad Backing in Poll It's always good to... (more) Where do the American people stand on the stimulus? (by ...
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Question for Stimuskeptics
Matthew Yglesias — Megan McArdle’s dubious about the prospects for an economic stimulus given the background conditions shown in this chart: And I’ll have to concede that that is an awful lot of debt. She also says that while stimulus “can ease the pain of a slowdown (at least in theory), as Tyler Cowen has been pointing out, the actual empirical evidence that massive government spending can shock an economy the size of ours into a permanently higher level of output is . . . well, it’s sort of hard to find a wittily ...

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