Joseph Lawler

Veronique de Rugy argues in Reason that soda taxes fail on economic grounds. Such taxes won’t improve soda drinkers’ health,…

Wlady — regarding Stiglitz advocating more stimulus spending: in fact left-wing economists have been after this from the very beginning….

The great economist Paul Samuelson passed away yesterday at the age of 94. Samuelson was perhaps the most influential economist…

When the Democrats took control of the White House in 2008, they inherited, along with the burden of a deep…

Yesterday I noted one giant error in the opening of Matt Taibbi’s Rolling Stone piece on the Obama economic team,…

Today, economist James Hamilton came out in favor of the BCS over a playoff system for college football. As far…

Larry Summers will always be a whipping boy for the left. I can only imagine that Obama’s appointment of Summers…

I’ve argued before that Eliot Spitzer needs to spend a lot more time gnashing his teeth in the outer darkness…

In the introduction to what is, on many levels, one of the worst pieces of journalism I’ve ever encountered, Matt…

Nevada Republican Senate hopeful Sue Lowden hit incumbent Majority Leader Harry Reid hard on health care reform this morning at…