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Posted on March 11th, 2010 under facts and charts. Comments Off

Well, Matthias Shapiro of 10000Pennies video fame created his own jobs graph showing just how great Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) economic stewardship has been for the American people. It shows how jobs have plummetted under her leadership:

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Posted on March 3rd, 2010 under facts and charts. Comments Off

This chart that I put together for The American magazine shows among other things why President Obama’s freeze of non-defense, non-homeland-security spending, minus gigantic loopholes, won’t do anything for us. That’s also why a PAYGO rule that applies to all new entitlement spending but doesn’t apply to the existing is a joke.

Posted on March 3rd, 2010 under facts and charts. Comments Off

In a new “Economics 101” video released today by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation (CF&P), Izzy Santa of the Cato Institute uses school choice as an example to explain why competition is better than government-created monopolies. The video entitled, “Economics 101: School Choice Example Shows Why Government Monopolies [...]

Posted on February 9th, 2010 under facts and charts, public policy. Comments Off

Past Deficits vs. Obama’s Deficits in Pictures

Posted on February 5th, 2010 under facts and charts. Comments Off

“Fear the Boom and Bust” is the first of many economics videos and lessons planned for Econstories.tv, a place to learn about the economic way of thinking through the eyes of creative director John Papola and creative economist Russ Roberts.
Keynes meets Hayek.  Back story is all here.

Posted on January 26th, 2010 under education, facts and charts, public policy. Comments Off

U.S. Presidents since 1900 and their highest levels of executive or national legislative experience.
McKinley – Governor of Ohio
Teddy Roosevelt – Vice President, Governor of New York
Taft – Secretary of War
Wilson – Governor of New Jersey
Harding – U.S. Senator (1915-1921)

Coolidge – Vice President, Governor of Massachusetts
Hoover – Secretary of Commerce
Franklin Roosevelt – [...]

Posted on January 25th, 2010 under facts and charts. Comments Off