Former President Clinton is characterizing the economic choice as deregulation that caused the bust (Republicans) and another approach that, he claims, caused the boom during his time in office. Staring at an economic chart suggests that’s not an accurate presentation.
An update and expansion of single-family-home sales data for each city and town suggests that Rhode Island’s real estate may not have hit bottom yet.
Rhode Island’s employment picture continues to be starkly negative, unless its new motto is, “We hope people leave faster than they lose their jobs.”
Forbes columnist Louis Woodhill praises GOP congressional candidate Michael Riley for emphasizing “pro-growth” policies during event in East Greenwich. Woodhill also compares current economic conditions with the Great Depression of the 1930s and identifies Nixon as the “worst president” of modern times.
Compartmentalizing society, with business tasked with maximizing profit and government tasked with picking up the pieces, is another example of how big finance is distorting both the economy and the government, in Justin’s view.
Video and an off-stage anecdote from Justin’s appearance on 10 News Conference with Bob Plain, hosted by Jim Taricani.
Tea Party activists see a return of the “welfare queen” in health benefit exchange “dependency portals” and President Obama’s policy on work rules for welfare.
Justin is his contrarian self on State of the State with John Carlevale.
In almost presidential election cycle, partisans on both sides claim that the public is about to vote “in the most important election of their lifetime.” This time around, it may actually be true. Our own Justin Katz has pieced together some documentation from the Urban Institute and The Center for Law and Social Policy that demonstrate how Rhode […]
The RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity has created a page to trace the development of Rhode Island’s “dependency portal.”
The continued sluggish recovery results from the failure of the President and the rest of the political class to pay enough attention to the economy to recognize how current circumstances are unique.
Across states and official positions, Republicans opposing ObamaCare have different views on the value of health benefit exchanges.
According to the RI Dept. of Labor and Training, the state is creating jobs, but it looks like they’re going to people out of state.
State executives have made the decision to implement the Medicaid Expansion detailed under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).
The Stephen Hopkins Center birthday celebration for Milton Friedman raised questions of justice and virtue.
Justin responds, on GoLocalProv, to those who brush aside the exodus of Rhode Island taxpayers.
Even more context for President Obama’s Roanoake speech produces even worse context, in Justin’s view.
Audio from Justin’s Tuesday appearance on the Dan Yorke Show.
RI officials acknowledge, but downplay, the intention to link additional government services to the state’s health benefits exchange. But advocates for smaller government see a pattern in federal and state efforts to make various public payments easier to get.
Apparently, just as the silver lining of the recession was that men lost most of the jobs, allowing women to catch up as a percentage of the workforce, the dark side of the recovery is that men are claiming most of the “new” jobs.
President Obama has modified his “you didn’t get there on your own” perspective quite a bit in the past week and a half.
A new study of teenage unemployment, with an eye on public policy such as the minimum wage, suggests that we might be failing young adults.
The full list of RI legislators declining salary increases, Justin suggests, only emphasizes the failure of the General Assembly to address the state’s real problems.
Rhode Island’s improved unemployment rate for June tells a deceiving story; the state’s decline continues.
GOP Congressional Candidate Michael Riley says RI Treasurer Gina Raimondo’s hedge fund strategy might make sense, depending on execution.
The grammatical debate over President Obama’s “you didn’t build that” remark risks trivializing the core dispute, which Justin sees as definitional for our times.
The latest national unfunded pension liability estimate of $4.6 trillion ought to spark conversation about the meaning (and value) of risk.
Rhode Island taxpayers have been fleeing the state since 2003, bringing their money and productivity with them; the trend can definitely be reversed, but it’s a choice that residents will have to make.
Portsmouth’s wind turbine has run into technical problems, and Rhode Islanders should learn a broader lesson about government in business.
In the quality of life versus business friendliness debate, Justin points out that RI’s paradox ought to make its residents even more outraged.