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Topic Date Published
Kentucky Tax Reform 6/7/2017
Where Have Kentucky's Workers Gone? 3/3/2016
The Macro Economy, Education, and Race in Employment 8/12/2015
Kentucky's Labor Market Ranks 49th 7/31/2015
Middle Class Economics 3/19/2015
Youth Employment and the Last 30 years of the Minimum Wage in the United States 8/15/2014
Should We Transfer Money from the Top 1%? 7/21/2014
Are There Proper Motivations for Market Transactions? 7/14/2014
The Lack of Slavery May Be Hurting Economic Growth; Or, How to Miss the Forest of Human Flourishing for the Trees of GDP Growth. 6/20/2014
The Rest of the Story 5/2/2014
Give, Share, and Take are not Synonyms 4/30/2014
Kentucky's Budget and Tax "Reform" 2/19/2014
Seven Habits of Highly Effective Economies 11/21/2013
A Recent History of the Minimum Wage and Teenage Unemployment 9/6/2013
Pain and Gain 8/30/2013
Job Creation, Not More Taxes, will spur Ky. Prosperity 6/17/2013
The King the Milk and the Honey 4/11/2013
Kentucky Pension "Reform" 3/27/2013
Politcal Game Theory: Why no one likes what comes out of Washington 3/2/2013
A Sequester of Competence 2/22/2013
Economic Hail Maries 2/11/2013
The Amateur 2/1/2013
The Nation of Takers 1/28/2013
Yes We Have no Manna Today 1/17/2013
I Want a Long Term Debt Deal for Christmas 12/18/2012
Rationing and Rationality 10/11/2012
For Love and Money 9/27/2012
Multiplying Stupidity 9/21/2012
QE Infinity 9/14/2012
Corny (but not Funny) Agricultural Policy 9/6/2012
Unemployment and the Unemployable 8/31/2012
Too Big Not to Fail 8/23/2012
Eminent Theft 8/16/2012
Chicken, Coffee, and Market Morality 8/10/2012
Government and Entrepreneurship 8/2/2012
Where's the Growth? 7/27/2012
In Search of the Good Life 5/24/2012
The Certainty of Bad Policy Makers 5/16/2012
Avenging Reality 5/9/2012
All Play and No Work Makes the US a Poor Country 5/4/2012
All Play and No Work Makes Johnny a Poor Boy 4/24/2012
Shooting the Moon and the Economy: Washington's Deadly Game of Hearts and Thrones 4/18/2012
Fairest in the Land 4/11/2012
Government Careless 4/6/2012
Make Money, Not War 3/27/212
Blinder(er) Faith in Government 3/19/2012
Free Lunches: Who will pay for my fondue? 3/14/2012
The Sixth Day 2/24/2012
Capitalism and Sustainability 2/17/2012
Capitalism: Becasuse we Care about the Poor - and Everyone Else 2/10/2012
Of Bushels, Lights and Cuba 1/26/2012
Payroll Tax: Holiday from Responsibility 12/28/2011
The Economy Got Run Over by the Government 12/19/2011
Effective Middle Class Warfare 12/12/2011
The Ottoman Empire: An American Tragedy? 12/5/2011
Ideology and the Functions of Government; or is President Obama, just President Bush on Steroids? 11/28/2011
Thankstaking 11/22/2011
Art Laffer and Herman Cain meet Religion 11/15/2011
Stop, Drop and Roll: The Privileged Economic Positin of Firefighters 11/7/2011
Capitalism: Shaken, not Stirred 11/2/2011
Neo-Liberal Idolatry and Schnitzel 10/24/2011
Cultural Failure 10/18/2011
Occupied Territory: Wall Street or Welfare Street? 10/11/2011
Homeownership is Over-rated: Did Homeowners in Atlantis enjoy being Underwater? 10/3/2011
This Land is Your Land, But it Should be My Land 9/26/2011
Is it Greece's (De) Fault? 9/20/2011
Candidate’s Jobs Claims 9/13/2011
Subsidizing Stupidity 9/8/2011
The Certainty of Uncertainty 9/1/2011
The US Tax Code: An Exercise in Group Think 8/24/2011
Stimulating America's Decline 8/17/2011
Debtitus 8/8/2011
Fiscal Hell without the Hand Basket 8/3/2011
The Blind Leading the Blinder 6/21/2011
Housing Prices: The Good, the Bad, and a Solution 6/17/2011
Economics and Language 6/7/2011
Macroeconomic Don Quixotes 5/25/2011
Presidential Grades 5/18/2011
The Trouble with International Organizations 5/18/2011
Debt and Monetary Easing 5/18/2011
Candy Culture 4/29/2011
E Pluribus Unum for the Good of Whom? 4/21/2011
I'll Have What He's Having, Except for the Bill 4/14/2011
The Fed has Friends in Low Places 4/4/2011
Anarchists Oppose Cutting Government Spending 3/31/2011
Which Way do they go George? 3/24/2011
Peter, Paul and Poverty 3/18/2011
Entitlements at Rest 3/9/2011
Unfunded Public Liability: Unrequited Self-Love 3/3/2011
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Balanced Budget Amendment? 2/24/2011
Capitalist Insights from Vegas to Portlandia 2/21/2011
There's more than Cheese in Wisconsin 2/17/2011
Love, Logic, and the Economy 2/9/2011
Exempted from the Rule of Law? 2/3/2011
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness 1/27/2011
"Reasonable" Persons and Caveat Emptor 1/1/2011
Economic Victimhood 12/28/2010
Twas the Night Before the Bond Traders Stole Christmas 12/17/2010
Emperor Obama's New Clothes 12/7/2010
What Would Jesus Buy? Let's ask an Economist! 11/30/2010
Politicization of the Fed: I do not think it means what Tim thinks it means 11/23/2010
Reducing the Federal Deficit: A Bandwagon worth jumping on 11/17/2010
Budget Cuts: An Introduction 11/8/2010
Should we even Teach Macroeconomics? 11/4/2010
All Ideas are "Great" but some are Greater than others 10/29/2010
A Holiday for or from Entrepreneurs? 10/21/2010
Stag(flation) Parties aren't as Fun as they Sound 10/14/2010
Economic Uncertainty Will Stunt Your Growth 10/4/2010
Kentucky's Fiscal Crisis 9/27/2010
The Tragedy of the Commons Credit Card 9/23/2010
Calling the Carbon Bluff 9/16/2010
Be Careful What you Subsidize, You'll get more of it 9/10/2010
Capitalsim: The Others' Helper 9/3/2010
An American IPO 8/31/2010
Don't Conflate Work with Production 8/25/2010
The Right to a Job vs the Right to Work 8/17/2010
Going Gaga over Stimulus 8/11/2010
Wimpy Wimpy Recovery; or, When do four quarters not make you a dollar? 8/6/2010
"Inconceiveable"; or, capitalism and materialism are not the same 7/30/2010
The Fallacy of Fiscal Stimulus; or, Cry "Uncle Sam, I Am" 7/1/2010
The Trouble with Socialsim is that People Don't Want to Starve to Death 6/28/2010
Soccer, Capitalism, and Rules of the Game 6/21/2010
A Nation of Panhandlers 6/14/2010
Economic Knowledge vs. Gut Feelings; or, If I only had a brain 6/8/2010
Keynesians Suck 5/27/2010
The Great Debt Flood and the Need to "Go Dutch" 5/24/2010
Reality Bites: The Economics of Feelings vs. Reason 5/17/2010
Much Ado About Something; or Why pleding to be Greek has dangerous connotations 5/10/2010
Capitalism and Immigration: An Untold Love Story 5/3/2010
Capitalism: You be the Judge 4/28/2010
The Lighter Side of Capitalism Today: Limerick's Today 4/23/2010
Both a Borrower and a Lender Be? 4/19/2010
South Africa Should Replicate Zimbabwe's Policies? 4/12/2010
Is the American Experiment Over? 4/5/2010
Health Care Reform: In the Long Run we are all Dead 3/30/2010
The Price of the New Health Care Entitlement; or, Peter, Paul and Pickled Peppers 3/23/2010
Production, not Consumption, Creates Wealth 3/15/2010
I Owe, I Owe, so off to Nap I Go? 3/10/2010
Governments Hate Competition 2/24/2010
Even Invisible Hands Can Hurt You if they Slap you in the Face 2/23/2010
Rowing is Exhausting; or, How to Sail into Economic Headwind 2/16/2010
Cores are for Apples, not Industries 2/8/2010
Chairman Bernanke Gets Reconfirmed: or, The Return of Bubble Boy! 2/3/2010
Money Can Buy Me Neither Love nor Schnitzel 1/27/2010
A-D-D: Aggregate Demand Disorder 12/31/2009
Investment Now; or, How to make a long story short 12/14/2009
Government and Investment; or, Why I won't play Monopliy City Again 12/14/2009
Don't Just Do Something - Stand There! Or, Economic Policy and the Hippocratic Oath 12/4/2009
Give Thanks, At Least We're Better Off than Zimbabe! 11/24/2009
Kentucky Economy: Structural Problems and Solutions 11/20/2009
Vacant Seats, Vacant Minds 11/13/2009
The Tea Interval 11/6/2009
Too Big to Fail - A US Government Strategy 10/30/2009
Oh Canada! (And Australia) 10/23/2009
From Each According to His Ability 10/16/2009
Why are Central Bankers still Focussed on the Inflation Rate? 10/1/2009
Average Prices are Signals that Dictate Economic Traffic 9/25/2009
What Good is a Compass if you don't Know how to Read it? 9/18/2009
Homeostasis and Economic Equlibrium: Steroids and Economic Stimulus 9/14/2009
A Czar of your own Castle 9/8/2009
Freedom of Exit 8/27/2009
Comparative Advantage Lives 8/24/2009
Markets Self Correct, Governments (run by any party) Compound Folly 8/17/2009

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