Not entirely sure what to think of Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano at DHS, but knowing that she is generally smart on immigration and was instrumental in the effort to knock down the REAL ID Act is encouraging.
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Glad to know that even the President Elect shouldn’t have a reasonable expectation of privacy with Verizon.
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A money bet against this not being executed well is probably a safe one.
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Iceland – a textbook case of the benefits of massive deregulation.
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More on this later, but in case that turns out to be a lot later, I wanted to highlight this good piece on managing current expectations by rewriting the past. The site, in general, is worth spending some time on.
jen
FDR caused the Depression? Oh. No. For shame, Mr. Will. Surely, your expensive education – I assume he has one of those, though to be fair he may not – learned you better than that.
Certainly, historians debate the degree to which the New Deal helped to end the Depression. The consensus view is that it helped some, but the massive mobilization for World War II helped still more. Either way, the Invisible Hand of the market fell far short of resolving the crisis, as both the New Deal and World War II poured huge amounts of government money into the American economy.
Causes of the Deepression? Smooth-Hawley (and the European retaliatory tariffs), World War I reparations, short-sighted monetary policies, and Hoover’s determination to allow the market to solve all ills.
Heh, I’m having flashbacks to my PhD exams suddenly. The horror!
MB
Sure he knows better. The difference between you, me, and him (well, besides all that fancy learnin’ you got) is that he’s not ashamed of lying about it. There are a dozen revisionist takes on history that I could push in benefit of my politics, but I’d be embarrassed to do so. Will? Isn’t.
jen
Indeed, which is why his is a highly paid columnist and bloviator, and I’m… well, not.
But I do sleep well at night.