Category Archives: economics
Revisiting Herbert Hoover
The time when the employer could ride roughshod over his labor is disappearing with the doctrine of ‘laissez-faire’ on which it is founded. -Herbert Hoover, 1909 When ranking presidents of the United States, Herbert Hoover tends to fare poorly – … Continue reading
Thoughts on Life Before the New Deal
I’ve been reading some commentary lately on how President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal was an absolutely awful thing for the United States. The theory is, as I understand it, government intervention made the Great Depression last longer and put in … Continue reading
Rob Kall: Interview with Health Insurance Exec/Whistleblower Wendell Potter
The Huffington Post has transcribed an interview with a former health insurance executive discussing the policy of dropping policies, often with entire companies, based on the cost of covering major illnesses that plan participants suffer.
Filed under economics, healthcare, politics
Separate Yet Unequal Marriages
Today the California Supreme Court upheld Proposition Eight’s ban on same-sex marriages which had previously been legalized from an earlier Supreme Court decision. Proposition Eight amended the California state constitution to include: “Only marriage between a man and a woman … Continue reading
Thoughts on “The Conscience of a Liberal”
I just finished reading economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman’s The Conscience of a Liberal. It is an interesting and informative read on the histories of both liberal and conservative politics in the United States. Krugman starts by … Continue reading
