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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

House, Senate Tackle Details of “Stimulus”


“With the Senate’s approval Tuesday of a massive, $838-billion economic stimulus package, congressional negotiators launched into a high-risk race to come up with a compromise bill that could be delivered to the White House by the end of the week.” (Los Angeles Times, Wednesday)


In this case, the devil is in the big picture, not just the details.



FEE Timely Classic

“Scarcity” by Russell Shannon


  • Sheldon Richman is the former editor of The Freeman and a contributor to The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. He is the author of Separating School and State: How to Liberate America's Families and thousands of articles.