Austan Goolsbee Is Obamas New Top Economic Adviser
Few were surprised when President Obama replaced Christina Romer, chair of his Council of Economic Advisers, with another statist economist, Austan Goolsbee. Goolsbee...
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NFL Means No Free Lunch for Taxpayers
When the 82,566 fans of the New York Giants cheer their team at the home opener of the season this Sunday at the...
Finally, a Sensible Solution to Unemployment
When Kevin Hassett, director of economic-policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, wrote in Bloomberg.com that “the biggest problem with the labor market...
Why Reich Is Wrong
When former Labor Secretary Robert Reich offered his solutions for ending the Great Recession in the New York Times, he repeated the same...
Will the U.S. Bail Out Kabul Bank?
The bank run at Afghanistan’s largest bank, Kabul Bank, was precipitated by the takeover of the bank by Da Afghanistan Bank, the country’s...
Fed’s Bernanke Running Out of Options
When Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks on Friday at the Fed’s annual meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Fed-watchers from around the world will...
Obama Needs Your 401(k) to Balance His Budget
The Obama administration is “taking the first steps to confiscate retirement dollars,” according to Dr. Jerome Corsi who predicts that the end result...
SEC Charges NJ With Cooking the Books
Notable in the statement from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last week that it was charging the State of New Jersey with...
Gun-control Laws Challenged After Supreme Court Ruling
On June 28, the day the Supreme Court ruled in McDonald v. Chicago that individuals have the right to keep and bear arms,...
Truth About 9/11 Revisited
When Alexander Zaitchik’s article, “Top 10 Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories,” was published, it went viral, with the article being available online immediately here and...
Fiscal Challenges: A Way Out
Economist Niall Ferguson of Harvard wrote an article entitled “Complexity and Collapse” for the March/April issue of Foreign Affairs, a publication of the...
How Relevant Is Ayn Rand Today?
It was news to many when Scott Powell announced that an obscure novel published in 1957, Atlas Shrugged, “may be second to the...
Mortgage Summit: No New Ideas
When Kevin Hall, writing for McClatchy Newspapers, said “the Obama administration got what it was looking for at its summit on the future...
Conjuring Magic To Cover States’ Debts: Fiscal Reality Sets In
The first warning about the possible bankruptcy of the town of Vallejo, California, was reported by the Associated Press on February 28, 2008,...
Congressional Ethics an Oxymoron?
USA Today seems surprised at the number of ethics cases making headlines recently, referring to the trials being faced by Representatives Charles Rangel...