Harvard Professor Calls OWS Protesters “Inchoate”
After being asked about the walkout of a few of his students from his Economics 10 class on November 2, Harvard professor Greg Mankiw (left) responded with an open...
About: Bob Adelmann
Posts by Bob Adelmann
The Story Behind the Best- and Worst-Run States
In its second annual survey of the best- and worst-run states, 24/7 Wall St. noted some significant changes but the same message: “States can do a great deal to...
Trump: Will Moderate Presidential Debate; May Run Himself; Doesn’t Want To
Donald Trump told Bret Baier on Fox News’ "Special Report” last Friday that he might still run for President this election cycle. "If I endorse somebody, I’m with that...
Two-tier Wage Pacts Bringing Jobs Back to Detroit
Last week’s announcement that the auto industry could add as many as 167,000 jobs by 2015 merely confirmed what some economists were saying: that lower wages allow car manufacturers...
Newsmax Media’s Cozy Relationship With the Insiders
When Brandon Burgess, CEO of ION Television, named the producers of the upcoming Republican presidential debate being cosponsored by Newsmax, in Iowa on December 27, he was ebullient in...
Paul Keeps His Honor, Rejects Trump’s Debate Invitation
When Christopher Ruddy, CEO of Newsmax Media, decided to team up with Donald Trump by asking him to moderate Newsmax’s upcoming Republican presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa, on...
Institute for Justice Celebrates 20 Years of “Litigating for Liberty”
Economist and conservative commentator Don Boudreaux attended the opening of the Institute for Justice (IJ) on September 10, 1991, and thought to himself at that time that “it sounded...
Central Bank Easing Misses the Point
Economist and TV personality Larry Kudlow explained that the decision on Wednesday by many of the world’s central banks made it easier for European banks to borrow dollars from...
Forbes: Rich Nations Go Broke by Overpromising and Overspending
Cato Institute senior fellow Jim Powell wrote in Forbes magazine about the inevitable and predictable decline of rich nations that debauched their currencies in order to pay their bills....
Cornell Professor Wants to End Black Friday Madness by Taxing It
On the lookout for perceived injustices in the marketplace, Cornell University professor Robert Frank decided that Black Friday needed his attention and wrote in the New York Times about...
Eurozone Ministers Meet to Force Integration
As the finance ministers from each of the 17 members of the eurozone meet in Brussels today, the main topic is “integration.” It’s a race against the clock. ...
Price Controls, Hugo Chavez, and Venezuelan Poverty
When Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced last Tuesday the imposition of new price controls on a long list of consumer items, he expressed optimism that they would help curb...
“Green” Jobs and Real Jobs
The Wall Street Journal virtually called the Obama administration’s efforts to create “green” jobs a joke, decrying the President’s efforts to jump-start the economy with them as mere “conjuring”...
Euro’s Failure Imminent, Says “The Economist”
In its attempt to quell rising uneasiness in the wake of the failed German bond sale last week, the establishment magazine The Economist rushed in over the weekend with...
Latest Economic Surveys Show Little Optimism
The Republican Small Business Committee reported on November 8 that small-business optimism “remains extremely low,” and that business owners “simply are not hiring because they are pessimistic about consumer...