What You Won’t Be Hearing

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  June 2nd at 11:57 AM  | 

“As you continue to watch the news coverage of the deteriorating economic climate, just remember that most of the premises that will be made and enunciated are that the government must do more, not less.” In all of the discussions about our current economic state, a possible regression or double dip recession, out-of-control debts, and continued high unemployment there is one conversation those who frame | Read More »

Let Dead, Defunct Economists Stay Dead

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  October 14th at 09:28 PM  | 

I gave a talk at the Heritage Foundation and the subject of economics and policy came up. I’ve been dwelling on this 2009 article in the New Zealand Centre for Political Research Weekly and I think it is relevant today too. I stumbled onto it a couple of weeks ago and think it makes a worthwhile point — we keep digging up these dead and | Read More »