The fact that antitax guru Grover Norquist, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka all moved swiftly to condemn deficit-reduction proposals made jointly by Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles is a sure indication these ideas are worth…
With ethanol, even foes of central planning are on board
The EPA’s recent ruling that gasoline can contain 15 percent ethanol and the litigation that decision has spawned by a variety of groups illustrates the degree to which central planning is getting a toehold in the U.S. economy with the…
Better policies might benefit wind, ethanol
The national economy is weak, but things were hopping in Moulton Township when I worked on our farm west of Chandler late last month. On Friday, the Pizza Ranch in Edgerton had 12 construction workers in addition to the usual…
Pluses or minuses of Fed’s bond buy still unknown
This week’s meeting of the Federal Reserve’s key policy making committee had all the suspense of a work by Gabriel Garcia Marquez or Eugene Ionesco in which you know a character is going to die, but first you have to…