Antagoniste


14 août 2009

Révolution ? Économie États-Unis

The American Spectator

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Money Bombs Away
The American Spectator

The donors who poured millions into Ron Paul’s presidential campaign coffers aren’t done yet. On Saturday, libertarian financier and commentator Peter Schiff raised more than $200,000 in a 24-hour « money bomb » as he continues to explore a bid for the Republican nomination to run against Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.). Having now collected more than $790,000 in campaign contributions since mid-July, the Ron Paul Republican Schiff is competitive financially with the frontrunners for the GOP nomination.

Schiff’s fundraising haul wasn’t the only reason libertarian-leaning Republicans had to cheer last week. Rand Paul, the ophthalmologist son of the 11-term Texas congressman and former presidential candidate, announced he was going to run for the Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY).

As Ron Paul Republicans have slowly been making inroads within the party structure, Congressman Paul himself has been gaining in influence over the GOP. Every Republican in the House is a now a co-sponsor of his bill to audit the Federal Reserve.

Even on issues of war and peace, Paul isn’t always in the minority anymore. A handful of conservatives who supported the Iraq war, like Congressman Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.), have joined him in questioning President Obama’s Afghanistan escalation. All but five Republicans voted with Paul against the supplemental funding of Iraq and Afghanistan, including the entire leadership. They haven’t suddenly become noninterventionists — the issue for most Republicans was extraneous spending, not the wars themselves — but it is nevertheless a major departure from the party’s stance under President Bush.

13 août 2009

Qu’est-ce que l’art ? Économie En Images Philosophie

L'une de ces toiles a été peinte par un enfant de 4 ans et l'autre est exposée au Musée d'Art Moderne de New York.  Pouvez-vous dire laquelle ?

Art

Faites le test !

13 août 2009

Arrr !!! Philosophie

Liberté PirateDans l'imaginaire collectif, les pirates sont perçus comme une bande de barbares sanguinaires sans foi ni loi. Bien que les pirates qui maraudaient dans les océans au 18e siècle assuraient leur subsistance par le fruit de la criminalité, la vie à bord de leur navire était très ordonnée.

Avant de joindre un équipage, l'aspirant pirate devait signer une constitution qui détaillait les règles de vie en mer. Les pirates avaient aussi compris qu'il était à leur avantage de séparer les pouvoirs entre un capitaine et un quartier-maître. D'ailleurs, ces 2 postes étaient désignés au suffrage universel parmi les membres de l'équipage et la constitution prévoyait une procédure de destitution démocratique si le capitaine ou le quartier-maître abusait de leur pouvoir. Tous ces mécanismes assuraient une vie paisible à bord des navires.

Parallèlement à la même époque, les marins qui travaillaient sur des navires marchands étaient traités en esclave: ils étaient battus régulièrement et le capitaine avait un pouvoir de vie ou de mort sur chacun des membres de son équipage.

Comment peut-on expliquer les conditions de vie radicalement différentes sur les navires marchands et sur les navires-pirates ? Les pirates, contrairement au marin de la marine marchande, avaient le droit de porter des armes, alors que sur les navires marchands, seul le capitaine avait ce privilège.

D'un côté, la décentralisation de la force faisait en sorte que le capitaine se devait de respecter les volontés de son équipage. De l'autre côté, le capitaine pouvait agir en despote parce qu'il avait le monopole de la force.

Pour en savoir plus:
Econtalk
Leeson on Pirates and the Invisible Hook

13 août 2009

Le trou sans fond Économie États-Unis Mondialisation Revue de presse

Wall Street Journal

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U.S. Logs Monthly Budget Gap
The Wall Street Journal

The federal government spent more than it pocketed in July, logging its 10th straight month of deficits at a time of growing public concern over how the country will pay for an ambitious health-care overhaul and other priorities of the Obama administration.

The Treasury Department Wednesday said in its monthly budget statement that the government was $180.68 billion in the red during July, part because of the costs of a rescue package for financial firms and of the economic-stimulus plan, and reduced tax revenue from shriveled corporate profits. July 2008′s federal budget deficit was $102.77 billion.

For the first 10 months of fiscal 2009, the deficit widened to $1.267 trillion, more than triple the $388.62 billion for the same period in fiscal 2008. The White House has predicted the deficit would total $1.841 trillion this fiscal year ending Sept. 30, which would be a record. The biggest deficit for any fiscal year on record is $454.8 billion, rung up in fiscal 2008.

The string of 10 monthly deficits isn’t a record. There have been 11 monthly deficits in a row three times, the last time being May 1991 through March 1992. The widest deficit for any month is $193.86 billion, recorded in February this year.

12 août 2009

La peur Économie États-Unis Hétu Watch

Socialisme

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Aux États-Unis, 41% des Américains disent craindre la gestion des soins de santé par les compagnies d'assurance privée. Par contre, ils sont 51% à craindre une intervention du gouvernement dans cette sphère d'activité.

Quand on demande aux Américains si le gouvernement devrait augmenter les dépenses publiques dans le système de santé ou réduire les impôts de la classe moyenne, 54% des gens préféreraient les baisses d'impôt.

Le "gros bon sens" n'est pas encore mort aux États-Unis !

12 août 2009

Même sans assurance… Canada Économie En Chiffres États-Unis

Aux États-Unis, les gens sans assurance reçoivent environ 60% moins de soins que les gens avec une assurance.  Avant de vous imaginer que cette situation est inacceptable, considérez ceci: les gens sans assurance ont un taux de mortalité équivalent aux gens qui sont assurés.  Je vous rappelle que c'est aux États-Unis qu'on observe les meilleurs taux de rémission suite au diagnostic d'un cancer.

Autres statistiques intéressantes, voici le pourcentage de la population dans le groupe d'âge à risque, qui a subi un examen de dépistage du cancer aux États-Unis et au Canada:

Médecine socialiste

Aux États-Unis, les gens avec une assurance sont beaucoup plus nombreux à passer un test de dépistage que les gens sans assurance, mais les gens sans assurance sont dépistés dans la même proportion que les Canadiens (sauf pour le cancer de la prostate). Résultat final: la proportion de la population qui a subi un examen de dépistage est plus élevée aux États-Unis qu'au Canada.

Donc, même si la distribution des soins de santé est plus inégalitaire aux États-Unis qu'au Canada, globalement l'ensemble de la population américaine reçoit des soins de meilleure qualité que les Canadiens.

Mais pour une raison que je peux difficilement expliquer, les gens ont peur d'un système de santé à 2 vitesses.  Il semble que les Canadiens préfèrent vivre pauvrement dans une société égalitaire plutôt que de vivre richement dans une société inégalitaire.  Du coup, on préfère un système de santé merdique, mais égalitaire à un système efficace, mais inégalitaire.

Source:
Employment Policies Institute
Who are the Uninsured? An Analysis of America’s Uninsured Population, Their Characteristics and Their Health

12 août 2009

Qui veut faire l’ange fait la bête Économie États-Unis Revue de presse

USA Today

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Clunkers program could drive used car prices up
USA Today

Hundreds of thousands of « clunkers » headed for scrappers may cause already rising prices for used cars to head even higher, dealers and market analysts warn.

The popular cash-for-clunkers program, extended by Congress last week with $2 billion more in federal incentives, requires that all the old fuel guzzlers traded in are scrapped — not resold. That means up to 750,000 vehicles will never find their way into the hands of another owner. Many are at the end of their useful lives, but others, with years of life left in them, normally would be resold.

« Those are the cars that lower-income families need, » says Geoff Smartt, owner of Smartt Cars in Caldwell, Idaho.

The clunker program could cause prices to rise 5% to 10% more, especially for vehicles worth $4,500 or less, says Alec Gutierrez, senior market analyst for Kelley Blue Book. « It’s going to drive prices up of some of the most affordable vehicles we have on the road. »

Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., called that provision « nuts » during debate in the Senate last week. He said that in his state, one trade-in had less than 10,000 miles on the odometer. « We’re going to destroy the opportunity for somebody less fortunate to have that automobile, » he said.

Used car dealers agree. They say fewer older cars are at auction.

11 août 2009

Tea Party Économie En Vidéos États-Unis

Mon duo libertarien favori à propos des taxes. En plus de l’aspect économique, on discute aussi de l’aspect moral et éthique des taxes:


Le vol étatique
Téléchargé par TheEconomist

P.-S. Le « Tax Freedom Day » aux États-Unis est le 13 avril. Au Québec, il faut patienter jusqu’au 12 juin.

11 août 2009

La gloutonnerie Canada Économie Environnement États-Unis

Pétrole

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Les États-Unis ont été condamnés pour le péché de gloutonnerie par les environnementalistes en raison de leur consommation de pétrole.

Aux États-Unis en 2008, il s'est consommé 7,09 milliards de barils de pétrole. Cette consommation représente 23,1 barils de pétrole par Américain ou encore 496,0 barils de pétrole pour produire 1 million de dollars de PIB.

Au Canada en 2008, il s'est consommé 0,84 milliard de barils de pétrole. Cette consommation représente 25,0 barils de pétrole par Canadien ou encore 639,4 barils de pétrole pour produire 1 million de dollars de PIB.

La plus grande productivité de l'économie américaine signifie aussi qu'elle fait un meilleur usage de son pétrole.

Source:
BP Energy
Energy charting tool

11 août 2009

Manquer le train Économie En Citations Philosophie

P. J. O'Rourke

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Le projet de construction de lignes ferroviaires, capables de remplacer l’automobile, est un thème qui revient périodiquement dans nos médias. Le satiriste libertarien P. J. O’Rourke à propos de la fascination des politiciens pour les trains:

« There’s something romantic about trains, but try getting the tracks to come to your house. When it comes time to unload the groceries, the romance of the train ends immediately.

Politicians love trains. Why? Because they can tell where the tracks go. They know where everybody’s going. For policiticians it’s all about control and power. Politicians hate cars because cars make people free. Not only free in the sense that they can go anywhere they want, which bugs politicians, but they can move out of the political districts that the politicians represent.

Politics itself is nothing more than an attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit. That’s the definition of politics. »

11 août 2009

Le modèle américain fait des adeptes Économie États-Unis France Revue de presse

Wall Street Journal

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France Fights Universal Care’s High Cost
The Wall Street Journal

France claims it long ago achieved much of what today’s U.S. health-care overhaul is seeking: It covers everyone, and provides what supporters say is high-quality care. But soaring costs are pushing the system into crisis. The result: As Congress fights over whether America should be more like France, the French government is trying to borrow U.S. tactics.

In recent months, France imposed American-style « co-pays » on patients to try to throttle back prescription-drug costs and forced state hospitals to crack down on expenses. « A hospital doesn’t need to be money-losing to provide good-quality treatment, » President Nicolas Sarkozy thundered in a recent speech to doctors.

The French system’s fragile solvency shows how tough it is to provide universal coverage while controlling costs, the professed twin goals of President Barack Obama’s proposed overhaul.

The problem is that Assurance Maladie has been in the red since 1989. This year the annual shortfall is expected to reach €9.4 billion ($13.5 billion), and €15 billion in 2010, or roughly 10% of its budget.

10 août 2009

La démagogie Économie En Vidéos États-Unis

Quand les politiciens nous parlent des paradis fiscaux, on a souvent droit à un discours démagogue. La raison est simple: s’il y a des paradis fiscaux, c’est nécessairement parce qu’il y a aussi des enfers fiscaux. Au lieu de reconnaître qu’ils ont fait de leur pays un « enfer », les politiciens préfèrent plutôt diaboliser les paradis fiscaux. Barack Obama ne fait pas exception:

À voir aussi: Hommage aux paradis fiscaux (I), Hommage aux paradis fiscaux (II) et Hommage aux paradis fiscaux (III).

10 août 2009

Avoir de l’assurance Économie États-Unis

Assurance Privée

Pour plusieurs, les compagnies d'assurance santé privées font une grande partie de leur argent en refusant de payer pour les soins de leurs clients.

Selon une étude du Congrès américain, les compagnies WellPoint, Assurant et UnitedHealth Group économisent annuellement en moyenne 60 millions de dollars en annulant des polices d'assurance (à cause de fausses déclarations). Cette somme représente un maigre 0,88% des profits réalisés par ces trois géants de l'assurance santé aux États-Unis.

Voilà qui remet les choses en perspective. Une compagnie d’assurance ne peut se permettre de refuser tout le monde sans quoi elle perdra sa réputation et ses clients iront vont son compétiteur.

10 août 2009

Le bon vieux temps ? Économie En Chiffres International

Évolution du taux de mortalité chez les enfants depuis les 55 dernières années:

Progrès
*Par 100 000 enfants

Voilà pourquoi la croissance économique comporte plus d'avantages que d'inconvénients.

Source:
EconLog
Modernity as a Children's Paradise

10 août 2009

Régime de merde Économie Gauchistan International Récession Revue de presse

The Daily Telegraph

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Cuba runs out of toilet paper
The Daily Telegraph

The state-run company that manufactures the island’s supply has warned that the economic crisis and a series of devastating hurricanes has left it unable to guarantee it will be able to produce or import sufficient supplies again until the end of the year.

« The corporation has taken all the steps so that at the end of the year there will be an important importation of toilet paper, » said a spokesman for the state conglomerate Cimex. The shipment will enable the state-run company « to supply this demand that today is presenting problems », he added.

Cuba both imports toilet paper and produces its own, but does not currently have enough raw materials to make it, he said.

President Raul Castro told the national assembly in Havana last week that the government had cut its budget for the second time this year. Few had expected that a decision to cut imports by 20 per cent to save government funds would have a knock on effect in the smallest room of every Cuban home, with lavatory paper among the products that have been disappearing from the shelves of state-run stores.

9 août 2009

Owned Canada Économie En Vidéos États-Unis

L’an dernier, Paul « le rouge » Krugman, a participé à un débat sur l’implantation d’un système de santé universel aux États-Unis. Disons que les choses ne se sont pas déroulées comme prévu…

Selon Krugman, les Américains qui s’opposent à la mise en place d’un régime de santé public aux États-Unis sont racistes. Qui sait, selon la logique Krugmanienne, peut-être que les Canadiens sont insatisfaits de leur système de santé parce qu’ils sont eux aussi des racistes…

9 août 2009

La réalité dépasse la fiction Économie En Citations États-Unis Philosophie

En 1957, Robert A. Heinlein, un écrivain libertarien, a imaginé un gouvernement américain qui serait stupide au point de payer les gens pour envoyer leurs voitures à la casse… La science-fiction d'Heinlein est devenue réalité avec Barack Obama:

HeinleinThe job I found was crushing new ground limousines so that they could be shipped back to Pittsburgh as scrap. Cadillacs, Chryslers, Eisenhowers, Lincolns – all sort of great big, new powerful turbobuggies without a kilometer on their clocks. Drive'em between the jaws, then crunch! smash! crash! – scrap iron for blast furnaces.

It hurt me at first since I was riding the ways to work and didn't own so much as a Grav-Jumper. I expressed my opinion of it almost lost my job….until the shift boss remembered I was a Sleeper and really didn't understand.

"It's a simple matter of economics, son. These are surplus cars the government has accepted as security against price-support loans. They're two years old now and then can never be sold….so the government junks them and sells them back to the steel industry.

You can't run a blast furnace just on ore; you have to scrap iron as well. You ought to know that even if you are a Sleeper. Matter of fact with high-grade ore so scarce, there’s more and more demand for scrap. The steel industry needs these cars."

"But why build them in the first place if they can't be sold? It seems wasteful."

"It just seems wasteful. You want to throw people out of work? You want to run down their standard of living?"

"Well why not ship them abroad? It seems to me they could get more for them on the open market abroad then they are worth as scrap."

"What! and ruin the export market? Besides, if we started dumping cars abroad everybody we'd get everyone sore at us – Japan, France, Germany, Great Asia, everybody. What are you aiming to do? Start a war? »

9 août 2009

Ça saigne encore… Économie États-Unis Hétu Watch Récession

The Miami Herald

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Fannie Mae seeks $10.7B in US aid after 2Q loss
The Miami Herald

Fannie Mae plans to tap $11 billion in new government aid after posting another massive quarterly loss as the taxpayer bill from the housing market bust keeps growing.

The mounting price tag for the rescue of Fannie and its goverment-sponsored sibling, Freddie Mac, is surpassed only by insurer American International Group Inc., which has received $182.5 billion in financial support from the government so far.Fannie Mae’s new request for $10.7 billion from the Treasury Department will bring the total for Fannie and Freddie to nearly $96 billion.

Together, Washington-based Fannie and McLean, Va.-based Freddie own or guarantee almost 31 million home loans worth about $5.4 trillion. That’s about half of all U.S home mortgages.

« We are dependent on the continued support of Treasury in order to continue operating our business, » Fannie Mae said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing late Thursday.

The two companies lowered their standards for borrowers during the real estate boom and are reeling from the bust. High-risk loans, now defaulting at a record pace, have come back to haunt the companies. Worse still, the recession is causing formerly reliable homeowners with good credit to default.

N.B. Fannie Mae et Freddie Mac sont des compagnies parapubliques contrôlées par le gouvernement américain.

8 août 2009

La confiance est d’or Canada Économie États-Unis

"Congressman Ron Paul's bill may never pass, but history suggests the US economy would be better off without the Federal Reserve."

The Christian Science Monitor
End the Fed? A not-so-crazy idea.
By George Selgin

Gold StandardSince it was introduced in February, Representative Ron Paul's "Audit the Fed" bill (H.R. 1207) has gained 282 congressional cosponsors. If adopted, the bill would allow the Government Accountability Office to review, not only the Federal Reserve's balance sheet, but its recent monetary policy deliberations and transactions.

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke opposes the plan, saying it would undermine the Fed's hallowed independence.

But Mr. Paul, a noted libertarian who ran for president last year, also wants to keep the Fed out of Congress's clutches – by scrapping it altogether. That's the goal of his follow-up Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act (H.R. 833). Although that measure has yet to gain a single cosponsor, it has plenty of grass-roots support, and Paul hopes that members of Congress will jump on the bandwagon once their eyes are opened by a no-holds-barred audit.

Wacky stuff? Well, if not having a ghost of a chance is enough to make a bill bonkers, Paul's measure probably qualifies. But that doesn't mean you've got to be crazy to believe that the US economy would be better off without the Fed.

The Fed's apologists suggest otherwise, of course. They note that the US spent nearly half the years between 1854 to 1913 in recession, as opposed to just 21 percent of the time since the Fed's establishment in 1913. Who would want to go back to those bad old days?

But consider: the US economy has actually grown less rapidly since 1914 than it did before. And inflation has been much worse, despite both the Civil War, which featured the nation's worst inflation, and the Great Depression, which featured its severest deflation!

What's more, the frequent downturns before 1914 were due, not to the lack of a central bank, but to foolish government regulations. Topping the list were bans on branch banking, initiated by state governments and then incorporated into federal banking law. The bans propped up thousands of undercapitalized and under-diversified banks – banks unfit to survive major local shocks, let alone macroeconomics ones. They also caused bank notes – competitively supplied counterparts of today's Federal Reserve notes – to trade at discounts whenever they traveled far from the solitary offices of banks that issued them.

During the Civil War, state bank notes were taxed out of existence to make way for those of new national banks. Because national banks had to accept one another's notes at full value, their currency was uniform. But national bank notes had to be backed by government bonds.

That requirement, designed to bolster the Union's finances while the war raged on, proved disastrous afterward, when government surpluses led to a halving of the federal debt, and to a corresponding shortage of bonds for securing bank notes. The resulting currency panics – in 1873, 1884, 1893, and 1907 – prompted the Fed's establishment.

But they didn't have to. Until 1907, prominent reformers favored simply abolishing Civil War-era restrictions on banks' freedom to issue notes and allowing all banks to branch nationwide to ease the mopping-up of unwanted paper money.

They drew inspiration from Canada, where a similar "asset currency" arrangement had been working smoothly for decades. Between the panic of 1893 and that of 1907, Congress considered more than a dozen "asset currency" measures. But none got anywhere, thanks to local bankers' determination to block any proposal for branch banking that would threaten their cozy monopolies.

It was only once these deregulatory efforts failed that reformers fell back on the plan of establishing a "central reserve bank." The resulting Federal Reserve Act was, in essence, merely a plan to allow 12 new banks to do what other banks were prevented from doing themselves, namely, establish branch networks and issue currency backed by commercial assets.

But the Federal Reserve plan proved to be a poor substitute for deregulation. By granting monopoly privileges to the Federal Reserve banks, it allowed them to inflate recklessly: By 1919, the US inflation rate, which had cleaved close to zero ever since the Civil War, was close to 20 percent! Yet the Fed was also capable of failing to supply enough money to avert crises. The first downturn over which it presided – that of 1921 – was among the sharpest in US history. Still it was nothing compared to the unprecedented monetary contraction of 1929-1933.

Would asset currency have been any better? Canada's was: Between 1929 and 1933, for instance, 6,000 US banks failed, and a third of the US money stock was wiped out. In contrast, and despite a fixed Canadian-US dollar exchange rate, Canada's money stock shrank by just 13 percent, and no Canadian bank failed.

Notwithstanding this superior outcome, the Canadian government itself abandoned asset currency in favor of central banking in 1935, to placate a growing Canadian movement for easy money.

So a call to end the Fed would have been anything but crazy in 1934. Three-quarters of a century and a dozen crises later, there are plenty of grounds for insisting that it hasn't gotten any crazier.

George Selgin is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a professor of economics at the University of Georgia.

7 août 2009

Sortie de crise Économie En Vidéos États-Unis Récession

Enfin un plan réaliste pour juguler le niveau d’endettement du gouvernement américain:


U.S. Government Stages Fake Coup To Wipe Out National Debt

Je suis convaincu qu’Octavius fera un meilleur président que Barack Obama. D’ailleurs, on devrait inviter Octavius à renverser Jean Charest pour régler les problèmes budgétaires du Québec.

7 août 2009

Certains sont plus égaux que d’autres Coup de gueule En Citations États-Unis Gauchistan Hétu Watch

Ezekiel J. Emanuel

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Pour certains, les systèmes de santé socialistes sont préférables aux régimes privés parce que dans un système universel de santé, tous les gens ont un accès équitable à des soins de qualité sans égard à leur condition. Vraiment ? Déclaration d’Ezekiel J. Emanuel (ici & ici), le conseiller du président Obama pour la réforme du système de santé américain:

« Services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia. [...]

Unlike allocation by sex or race, allocation by age is not invidious discrimination; every person lives through different life stages rather than being a single age. Treating 65-year-olds differently because of stereotypes or falsehoods would be ageist; treating them differently because they have already had more life-years is not.« 

7 août 2009

La gauche au pied d’argile Économie États-Unis Revue de presse

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Obama approval rating sinks to 50 per cent: poll
Sydney Morning Herald

US President Barack Obama’s approval rating has slumped to 50 per cent, the lowest since his inauguration, according to a poll released on the eve of his 200th day in office.

Pollsters at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut said Obama’s job approval rating dipped to 50-42 per cent, a reflection of growing unease over his handling of the economy.

The figure, released on Thursday, is a substantial drop from the 57-33 per cent approval rating he had on July 2, and far less than the glowing numbers he enjoyed in the honeymoon first 100 days of his tenure.

The national poll of 2409 registered voters was carried out between July 27 and August 3. It found voters disapproved 49-45 per cent of the way Obama was handling the economy, and disapproved 52-39 per cent on his handling of health care, but approved 52-38 per cent on his foreign policy.

On July 21, a USA Today/Gallup poll found Obama’s approval rating was 55 per cent six months into his presidency, one point lower than that of his predecessor George Bush at the same point in his tenure.

6 août 2009

The iPod economy Économie En Vidéos États-Unis International Mondialisation

Un vidéo sur l’incohérence (pour ne pas dire la stupidité) des protectionnistes et des altermondialistes:

Welcome to the iPod economy, where just about everything is made everywhere.

6 août 2009

Procrastination keynésienne Économie États-Unis Hétu Watch Récession

Keynésianisme

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Selon les médias gauchistes, la récession aux États-Unis toucherait à sa fin grâce au plan de relance de 787 milliards de dollars de Barack Obama.

Des 787 milliards de dépenses prévus par la Maison-Blanche, seulement 73,1 milliards ont été dépensés, soit moins de 10%. Si fin de la récession il y a, il faudrait plutôt conclure que, contrairement à ce qu’affirment les dogmes keynésiens, le plan de relance de Barack Obama aura été inutile.

Et si la récession se poursuit, on pourra aussi constater que les fameux plans de relance supposément salvateurs, adoptés en toute hâte par les politiciens sont inutiles pour juguler une récession, parce qu’ils sont trop longs à mettre en oeuvre.

6 août 2009

Big brother Coup de gueule États-Unis Gauchistan Hétu Watch

Obama

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Imaginez que le gouvernement Harper ait demandé aux citoyens canadiens de lui faire parvenir sur son site web les courriels et les adresses de sites internet des gens critiquant les politiques du gouvernement.

La population et les médias auraient, avec raison, été scandalisés par cette mesure liberticide s’inspirant des politiques de délation mises en place dans les pays communistes.

Grâce à l’Administration Obama, cette politique de délation est maintenant une réalité aux États-Unis. Mais parions que les médias n’oseront pas critiquer cette dérive autoritaire de leur messie.