Category Archives: Quote of the Day

My goodness! Sanity in governance! Today, I’m calling for a mechanism to be put in place so when we do bring in more than we need, we’ll have the option of returning tax money directly to the people who paid … Continue reading →

I doubt that this means he’ll actually read the items he votes on in the future But I am concerned that we are running out of time before this job-killing tax goes into effect. So, for now, the best thing … Continue reading →

From a comment to another QotD It actually helps to have some experience in the mortgage business. Unlike Joseph Stiglitz, Martin Feldstein, Glenn Hubbard, and others who have written op-eds and influenced policy makers, I actually know something about the … Continue reading →

From Arnold Kling, who is blogging again. What I am suggesting is that libertarians, rather than defining ourselves in terms of what we believe is right, could instead define ourselves in terms of how one should arrive at beliefs about … Continue reading →

The last line of this is what got me. And apparently, Lyle at UltiMAK as well. Note that those on the far Left have the delusion that they are besieged, when in fact they control the state, they control the … Continue reading →

Found @ Samizdata Nobody pretends that hiking these taxes means “ordinary people” will have less tax to pay. But most folk still believe that companies can be made to pay taxes, shifting the burden away from the rest of us. … Continue reading →

Dan McLaughlin. Read the whole thing, it’s excellent. nearly everybody involved in the mortgage-backed securities market (buy-side, sell-side, ratings agencies, regulators) bought into mathematical models valuing MBS as low-risk based on models whose historical data didn’t go back far enough … Continue reading →

Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of hell that during evolution some species—including man—crawled, fled onto some small continents of solid land, where the Lessons Of Darkness … Continue reading →

No generation has seen their country so altered, so turned upside down, as children like me born in the 20 years between the two world wars. In our adult lives Britain’s entire national spirit, its philosophy, values and standards, have … Continue reading →

Finally, school is done for a bit and I can start pulling quotes from the book I wrote about a while back. What I am going to do is drop the link to the book quote and then the quote … Continue reading →