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More Stimulus Spending Madness - $738,000 for Each Job Created by US DOT

Ronald Bailey | 8.21.2012 9:50 AM

Is This the Only Chart That Matters in Election 2012? Obama's Epic Unemployment FAIL

Nick Gillespie | 8.20.2012 11:59 AM

Where Free-Market Economists Go Wrong

Subsidies, stimulus, regulations, protectionism, trade restrictions, government-bank collusion, zoning, bailouts and more do not equal a "free" market.

Sheldon Richman | 8.19.2012 10:10 AM

Vegas Bullet Train Bets Big on Taxpayer $$$

Tim Cavanaugh | 8.16.2012 2:48 PM

Stimulus, Latin Style

Brazil has announced a $60 billion stimulus package.

Reason Staff | 8.15.2012 12:36 PM

Stimulus Figures Actually In the Trillions

Two economists say the amount of money dumped into the economy to no effect by the government is wildly underestimated

Reason Staff | 8.7.2012 3:39 PM

"The New New York": De Niro's Least Convincing Role Since Frankenstein?

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.18.2012 9:59 PM

Why Obama's Stimulus Failed: A Case Study of Silver Spring, Maryland

Jim Epstein | 7.8.2012 3:30 PM

42 Straight Months of Stupidly Optimistic Official Predictions About Economic Recovery

Once-a-month quotes from the Obama administration and the media about how the economy will be booming any minute now.

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.27.2012 4:30 PM

3 Fallacies in Obama's Public-Sector Stimulus Strategy

Paying people to do busy work won't revive the U.S. economy.

Shikha Dalmia | 6.19.2012 7:00 AM

Osborne Announces More Stimulus Ahead of Greek Election

Matthew Feeney | 6.14.2012 4:15 PM

Reason Writers Around Town: Shikha Dalmia on The Progressive Fallacies in Stimulus Talk

Reason Staff | 6.14.2012 9:55 AM

Bloomberg (News): Obama Shoulda Made HAMP, HARP Bigger

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.13.2012 7:04 PM

Your Stimulus Dollars at Work: Uncle Sam Buys Kindles for $6,660 a piece

Shikha Dalmia | 6.12.2012 10:10 AM

Has President Obama's Stimulus Made the Private Sector Lazy and Hurt Job Growth?

Shikha Dalmia | 6.11.2012 5:06 PM

Is the CBO Cheerleading for the Stimulus?

Peter Suderman | 6.11.2012 3:10 PM

E.J. Dionne: Three Cheers for Big Government!

Matt Welch | 6.11.2012 12:24 PM

New Yorker's John Cassidy Can't Count, Digs In Heels On Precious Continental Spellings

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.5.2012 4:38 PM

Reason Writers on the Tube: Matt Welch Talks About the Lousy Jobs Report on MSNBC's Jansing & Co.

Matt Welch | 6.1.2012 1:40 PM

If There's a Debt Crisis, Why Is Government Debt Golden?

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.30.2012 4:59 PM

Andrew Sullivan Nominates Tim Cavanaugh for Trig Palin Award

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.24.2012 3:30 PM

The Advantages of Accidental Job Creation

Jacob Sullum | 5.23.2012 12:00 PM

No Joke: Stimulus Money Went to Study Erectile Dysfunction In Obese Men

Nick Gillespie | 5.16.2012 1:03 PM

Stimulus Money Paid for Research About Fat Middle-Aged Men's Erections

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 5.16.2012 10:26 AM

DOJ Vs. Joe Arpaio, Military Trained for "Total War" Against Islam, Vikings Get Their Cheese: P.M. Links

Scott Shackford | 5.10.2012 4:20 PM

The Circular Logic of Stimulus Spending

Peter Suderman | 5.10.2012 3:16 PM

Hysterity! Global Panic about "Austere" 9 Percent Spending Hike

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.25.2012 8:49 PM

Goodbye, Million-Dollar Starter Home. Hello, Half-Million-Dollar Teardown

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.22.2012 11:49 AM

Keynes: The Closet Supply Sider

Shikha Dalmia | 4.17.2012 9:15 AM

Nothing Left to Cut! California Spends $205,000 to Move $15 Shrub.

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.16.2012 10:20 PM

Third Summer of Recovery Is Already Over

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.16.2012 4:38 PM

TARP Profit Magically Gets Smaller As It Accumulates

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.13.2012 5:59 PM

Tim Cavanaugh Talks Islamism, Obamacare and Stagflation on PJTV

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.9.2012 5:16 PM

"You're not stabilizing the market. You're creating more chaos."

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.3.2012 1:46 PM

Recovering America: Earning Less, Spending More, $6.7 Trillion Poorer

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.31.2012 12:42 PM

Loan-Modification Scams Only News When There's Hotness Involved

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.30.2012 7:42 PM

Friday Fun Headline Self-Parody: Joe Biden Is a "Non-Embarrassment"?

Matt Welch | 3.16.2012 10:43 AM

How Stimulus Fails

A case study of federal waste in Silver Spring, Maryland

Jim Epstein | 3.13.2012 12:00 PM

Obama Is a Lock

The American public loves recession, war, tyranny.

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.8.2012 4:30 PM

Lady Trouble, Wal-Mart's Anschluss, and the Gassing of the Economy: Tim Cavanaugh on PJTV

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.1.2012 4:17 PM

Why is the Economy Growing So Slowly? Q&A with AEI's James Pethokoukis

Nick Gillespie and Jim Epstein | 2.28.2012 10:45 AM

Why Solyndra Hasn't Killed Government's Appetite for Green Pork: Cavanaugh on Russia Today

Tim Cavanaugh | 2.21.2012 4:30 PM

Fact-Checking the Fact Checkers: Mitt Romney, President Obama, and the Stimulus

Peter Suderman | 2.21.2012 3:12 PM

Why Did the Times Switch This Solyndra-Program Headline?

Tim Cavanaugh | 2.10.2012 6:54 PM

Synfuel Company With $25 Million Green Loan Calls Emergency Conference

Tim Cavanaugh | 2.8.2012 2:34 PM

New Paper Finds Stimulus Spending Funds Government Employment, But Not Private Sector Growth

Peter Suderman | 2.8.2012 12:14 PM

Obama's Next Bailout

Home flippers get a sweetheart deal from the government.

Anthony Randazzo | 2.3.2012 4:30 PM

Plan to Take British Health Records Into Virtual Reality Encounters Bureaucratic Reality, Shuts Down

Peter Suderman | 2.3.2012 11:31 AM

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