Tariffs and California

by | Nov 14, 2024 | California Politics, Trade

Levi Sumagaysay at CalMatters: Businesses that import goods into the country must pay the tariffs. They tend to pass on their increased costs to consumers, with some executives recently promising to do just that during their earnings calls. So economists largely view...

Waste, Fraud, and Abuse

by | Nov 13, 2024 | Budget, Public Administration

 Andrew Rudalevige at Good Authority: Probably the closest quasi-recent parallel is the President’s Private Sector Survey on Cost Control in the Federal Government, convened by Ronald Reagan in 1982. PPSSCCFG was hardly a mellifluous acronym, so the body was usually...

Checking the Majority

by | Nov 9, 2024 | Democracy, Madison, Uncategorized

Nathan Gardels at Noema: To base the idea of democracy solely on elections invites illiberalism because it implies that majoritarian rule is all that is necessary. But, as the American founding fathers well understood, the will of the majority does not embrace all...