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The Truth About Bain Capital and the Kansas City Steel Mill
The Obama campaign has put out a two minute television add depicting Bain Capital as a predatory company bent on destroying jobs for profit. Kimberly Strassel sets the record straight in today’s Wall Street Journal.
Gay Marriage: Empathy, Rights and Federalism
In today’s Oregonian, Charles Krauthammer says there are two arguments for gay marriage — empathy and rights. President Obama started with the case from empathy and moved quickly to rights. But he also says it should be up to the states. Krauthammer argues that he can’t have it both ways. If it’s a right, it [...]
Lawyers, Lawyers Everywhere
Originally published in The Oregonian — May 17, 2012 – Primary 2012 aftermath: Lawyers and judges steal the show this election You know it’s an unusual election when the most interesting statewide races are those in which only lawyers and judges are running. Despite indications from a recent SurveyUSA poll, the magnitude of Ellen Rosenblum’s [...]
J.P. Morgan Redux
Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley writes in today’s Oregonian that the J.P. Morgan trading loss provides 2 billion reasons for more regulation of the banking and financial industries. On the same page, Washington Post columnist Robert J. Samuelson explains why — in “four propositions that defy conventional wisdom” –,Merkley is wrong.
Changing Colors
The mini-flap over U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren’s one-time claim to American Indian heritage just won’t stop flapping. As Alana Goodman writes in Commentary, both Warren and Harvard University have some explaining to do.
Where Are the Green Jobs?
AEI scholar Kenneth P. Green says it is not surprising that, though governments have spent billions on green technologies, there are few jobs to show for it. Green calls it a “green conceit” drawing on Fiederich Hayek’s description of the “fatal conceit” that government planners can know enough to pick tomorrow’s technologies today. Read Green’s [...]
Sometimes, People Invest and Lose Money
$2 billion is a lot of money. Enough to get the regulator’s juices pumping. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the J.P. Morgan $2 billion trading loss is evidence of the need for more regulation of banks and the financial sector. Jonathan Macey, writing in the Wall Street Journal, and Peter J. Wallison, writing in USA [...]
Austerity in Name Only
Most commentators and pundits explain the defeat of Nicolas Sarkozy in France and the rise of far left Syriza in Greece as popular rejections of austerity policies as the solution to escalating government debt. Writing in today’s Washington Examiner, Veronique de Rugy points out that government spending on social services and welfare in most European [...]
Is It Really Guns or Butter?
In this piece from the May 13, 2012, Weekly Standard (reproduced here at aei.org), Thomas Donnelly and Gary Schmitt explain why the choice facing Congress with looming automatic defense cuts is not really between defense and services for the poor.
Understanding the Student Loan Problem
The following editorial by editorial page editor Thomas G. Donlan appeared in Barrons here. The Power of Credit The much-lamented “student loan crisis” has deep bipartisan roots, tapping a lode of sentiment and misunderstanding. Though the problems of student debtors today are relatively trivial in fiscal terms, they are instructive in political terms. Inserting federal-government [...]
Coming Lessons from the Greek Election
In this week’s elections Greek voters gave significant support to the far left parties opposing any real reform of the Greek entitlement state. As a consequence, Greeks future in the European Union is in serious doubt, as is the country’s economic future. While some of the Greek parties are far left of the American Democratic [...]
Making the Moral Case for Free Enterprise
Originally published at aei.org — May 7, 2012 – by Arthur C. Brooks – First, make the moral case for free enterprise – Ready for the battle in November? You probably think I’m talking about the election. No, I’m talking about the battle around your Thanksgiving table. The dinner conversation will turn to politics [...]
Probably Unwelcome Advice for Class of 2012
Bret Stephens offers some advice to the college class of 2012 in today’s Wall Street Journal. Most of them won’t like it, but they should pay attention.
