• We're engaged in a neverending battle between those who are happy telling others what to do and those who would rather take a chance on human potential. Margaret Thatcher's death this week is a reminder that it takes intellectual and political warriors to keep rolling back the never-ending drift toward more encroachment by the state.
  
  
• The President released a budget this week that assumes economic growth rates we haven't seen in decades -- after-inflation rates of 2.5% to 4% for the next five or six years. That's happening at the same time as the personal savings rate is back down to near-zero. Discouraging savings and investment is no way to get an economy to grow twice as fast as it did in the last decade.

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• The government is using negative interest rates to get free money. In the short run, I guess it's keeping down the cost of the huge Federal debt we've built up. But in the long run, it's just enabling government to keep overspending.
  
  
• State Auditor David Vaudt is leaving office to oversee a national government-accounting board. It's a real loss for Iowa. I think of Vaudt as a "good government" Republican, which is exactly the model I think the party should be following more often.
  
  
• The government is pushing high-risk mortgages again. It's like we just refuse to learn our lessons.
  
  
• The rest of my show notes are on my personal site.

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A couple of links from tonight's show:

• Is the natural-gas boom the beginning of the end of "Made in China"? Maybe.
• The awful set of car accidents in Virginia today is yet another example of why we need self-driving cars (and laws to govern them) as soon as possible.
• We need to recognize good intentions from good decisions when making decisions that affect the labor market.

Thanks for listening tonight, and happy Easter!

- Brian Gongol / mail@gongol.com / brian@whoradio.com