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This photograph crushes the carefully cultivated image of a benign and wise Chinese state, offering its people jobs, rising living standards, and eventual happiness...
June 17, 2012 | Forbes.com
Greek, French and Egyptian voters went to the polls Sunday...
June 12, 2012 | Forbes.com
The protest movement remains badly divided between liberals, communists, and nationalists, each with their own agenda. They have not even united on the most important demand – the removal of Putin from office...
June 10, 2012 | Forbes.com
If America is exceptional, why must we fundamentally transform it as Obama promises? Instead, we need a steady-hand Mitt to restore America’s greatness...
June 6, 2012 | Forbes
Epidemics provide fodder for the news media, especially on slow news days...
June 4, 2012 | Forbes.com
The disability program is not the creation of the Obama administration, but Obama appointees have set and interpreted its policies for more than three years. Let’s examine their record...
May 27, 2012 | Forbes.com
Democrat strategists know that the American electorate reacts strongly negative to “socialism” and are doing their best to discredit any and all who call Obama a socialist...
May 23, 2012 | Forbes.com
We will never know what deals Carlos Slim made to gain the Telmex monopoly. But we know this was crony capitalism in its most destructive form...
May 20, 2012 | Forbes.com
As pundits parse words like austerity, growth, and “we want to keep Greece in the Euro zone,” it becomes increasingly clear that Camp David platitudes mean nothing and make no difference...
May 13, 2012 | Forbes.com
The parallels between the Swedish Social Democrats and their labor allies of the 1970s and the Obama administration are striking...
May 7, 2012 | Forbes.com
Were it not for the French, Greece, and Schleswig-Holstein elections on Sunday, Putin’s inauguration for his third term would have been the top news...
May 6, 2012 | Forbes.com
Hollande’s election leaves the European Union with three stark choices, none of which are good...
May 2, 2012 | Forbes.com
We have sacrificed a fundamental moral issue for commercial and political gain...
April 29, 2012 | Forbes.com
In the past four months, the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) has experienced four shocks that could materially affect, if not eventually end, its “leading role” in Chinese society...
April 15, 2012 | Forbes
The Left considers Steve Jobs, the charismatic PC pioneer, a self-centered individualist, who did not conform to elite etiquette...
April 10, 2012 | Forbes.com
The removal of Chongqing party boss Bo Xilai from the Politburo and the announcement that his wife is under investigation for murder are a political tsunami...
April 8, 2012 | Forbes.com
According to my arithmetic, the unanticipated Republican November 2010 sweep of the House with victories of fiscally-conservative freshmen saved or will save taxpayers at least $300 billion dollars for the two-year period 2011 and 2012 alone...
April 1, 2012 | Forbes.com
As a writer on Soviet planning, I am struck by its parallels with Obama Care...
March 25, 2012 | Forbes.com
Do We Have Socialist or Individualistic Genes?...
March 22, 2012 | Forbes.com
As someone who favors cutting government spending on clean energy and eliminating government subsidies in general, I was particularly distressed to learn (in Carney’s words) that “I am “aggressively and deliberately ignorant of the world economy..."
March 18, 2012 | Forbes
Times columnist Paul Krugman’s continuous railing against austerity reached a crescendo with Greece’s default...
March 11, 2012 | Forbes.com
As long as we believe the big lie that March 4 was a real presidential election, Putin can triumphantly declare (with tears in his eyes?) democracy alive and well...
March 7, 2012 | Forbes.com
After viewing Ms. Fluke’s testimony on her right to free access to contraception, I wish to bring to your attention that I am also being denied free access to vital preventive health care...
February 26, 2012 | Forbes
President Obama calls for “social justice...
February 19, 2012 | Forbes.com
If Obama’s constituents are indexed for inflation, Martha’s capital gains should be too. Fair is fair. Let Obama deliver for all the people...
February 12, 2012 | Forbes.com
Rick Santorum’s sweep of three nominating contests in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri on February 6 shows that Mitt Romney has not convinced the base that he is conservative...
February 6, 2012 | Forbes.com
The American Airlines bankruptcy reveals the scope of President Obama’s political payback to the UAW...Who needs China to destroy American jobs when we have Obama...?
February 4, 2012 | Forbes.com
[Putin's] counter-demonstration reveals how scared he is of mass demonstrations...
February 2, 2012 | Forbes.com
If the CBO employed a non-Keynesian approach, its conclusions would be quite different...
January 29, 2012 | Forbes
Russia’s “Moscow Winter” is eating away at Vladimir Putin’s KGB state, but it will survive...
January 25, 2012 | Forbes.com
I have nothing against Debbie Bosanke earning a half million or even more...At her income, however, she is scarcely the symbol of injustice that Obama wishes her to project...
January 22, 2012 | Forbes.com
By “socialist,” I do not mean a Lenin, Castro, or Mao, but whether Obama falls within the mainstream of contemporary socialism as represented, for example, by Germany’s Social Democrats, French Socialists, or Spain’s socialist-workers party...?
January 15, 2012 | Forbes.com
The Fed’s “intelligence failure” serves as a lesson for those calling for government to foresee systemic risk...
January 10, 2012 | Forbes.com
The alignment of public opinion with conservative principles offers Republican candidates a unique opportunity in 2012 as the party that opposes big government, special interests, and state intervention...
January 8, 2012 | Forbes.com
The facts suggest that China’s military power will equal our own in a relatively brief period of time thanks to Obama’s downgrading of U.S. military power...
January 2, 2012 | Forbes.com
Finding a way to get its economic message across should be a top priority of the Republican Party...
December 12, 2011 | Forbes
Fifty thousand demonstrators are shouting “Russia without Putin!” as I write this post...
December 6, 2011 | Forbes.com
The new face of the Russian opposition is a young whistle-blowing, shareholder activist, muckraking blogger by the name of Alexei Navalny...
December 5, 2011 | Forbes.com
Vladimir Putin has become Russia’s Mubarak – an unpopular head of state constrained in his ability to repress those who stand against him. This is an explosive combination...
November 27, 2011 | Forbes.com
Sino-Forest is one of the most transparent and one might even say “best” companies operating in China. I shudder to think what horrors less well-run companies conceal...
November 20, 2011 | Forbes.com
Advocacy groups repeat over and over that 16.2 million children (one in five) “struggle with hunger in the United States”...Where does the one-in-five figure come from and what does it really measure...?
November 16, 2011 | Forbes.com
As long as Russia’s insecure crony capitalists choose profit diversion over value creation, Russia will remain a backward country, reliant on its energy resources to fund its activities and its oligarchs’ and politicians’ insatiable appetites...
November 7, 2011 | Forbes.com
The consequences of state capitalism will eventually show through, and we will be surprised to learn that Chinese and Russian state capitalism were houses of cards...
October 30, 2011 | Forbes.com
Joseph Stalin wrote the playbook for dictators...
October 20, 2011 | Forbes.com
Despite high hopes, this weekend’s summit of EU finance ministers and heads of state will find no magic silver bullet...
October 20, 2011 | Daily Caller (DC)
Obamacare has brought adverse selection to the forefront. It explains and will continue to explain why Obamacare will not work...
October 11, 2011 | Forbes.com
The Nobel Committee has again awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics to an economist who helped shatter the Keynesian consensus...
October 9, 2011 | Forbes.com
I see from the New York Times article “Market Risks Are Seen in Energy Innovations” that you could benefit from my over thirty years of experience with Gosplan (The USSR State Planning Commission)...
October 2, 2011 | Forbes.com
Domestic critics bemoan the pathologies of unfettered markets and political stalemate and point to China as a model for us. I’d like to ask: Who is living off of whom...?
September 25, 2011 | Forbes.com
Four years of non-suspense ended Saturday. Vladimir Putin will return as president of Russia in March. This decision does not bode well for Russia, the West, or for those who wish to do business in Russia...
September 18, 2011 | Forbes.com
False claims of consensus and inconvertible truth reveal a political or ideological agenda wrapped in the guise of science...
September 7, 2011 | Forbes.com
My Fellow Americans: Despite valiant efforts by my administration and the Federal Reserve, the economy is faltering and jobs are not being created. We must respond with decisive measures...
September 2, 2011 | Forbes.com
I surveyed a large number of Tea Party sites to distill what I consider to be its “core” platform. I then studied public opinion polls to determine whether the American people agree with the Tea Party’s core principles. Here is what I found...
August 28, 2011 | Forbes.com
Obama cannot propose a real jobs program. His constituents would rebel. A real jobs program attacks too many of the core beliefs of his party, such as minimum wages and higher taxes on the better off...
August 11, 2011 | Forbes.com
Liberal commentators and comedians appear to accept Keynesian economics as such an evident truth that non-believers must be stupid. Keynesian economics has become a liberal dogma...
August 1, 2011 | Forbes.com
The debt-ceiling brouhaha diverts attention from the most fundamental economic issue we face: Do we want a European-style welfare state? If we do, how in the world are we going to pay for it...?
July 24, 2011 | Forbes.com
In democracies, leaders who make bad and even disastrous decisions are punished at the ballot box...
July 12, 2011 | Forbes.com
None of the common arguments for labor unions hold water...
June 21, 2011 | Forbes.com
Obama Didn't Save Union Jobs, He Saved Union Pay...
June 10, 2011 | Townhall
It is a shame to have to “relitigate” issues that have been laid to rest. For Thomas Friedman, the message is that it is treacherous for non-economists to write economics...
May 23, 2011 | National Review Online
If we think our 2012 election will offer a stark choice, it’s nothing compared to Russia’s...
May 6, 2011 | WND - World Net Daily
Our tax code would be a joke if this were not such serious business...
March 23, 2011 | Daily Caller (DC)
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin posted this statement on his official website on March 21...
October 15, 2010 | Daily Caller (DC)
China is the world’s fastest growing economy. It is now second only to the United States in GDP...Yet China is throwing a temper tantrum unworthy of a great country over the Nobel Committee’s decision to award its 2010 peace prize to [Liu Xiaobo]...
July 19, 2010 | History News Network
The Soviet state and party archives, which began to be released for scholarly use in the early 1990s, offer a rare opportunity to write history using the very words of those who made history...
January 20, 2009 | Moscow Times
Russian and foreign scholars took on Stalin at the International Conference on Stalinism held last month in Moscow...
October 12, 2008 | Washington Times
The Soviet Union did not change and failed; China changed with remarkable success...
September 7, 2008 | Washington Times
Can the United States and the West punish Vladimir Putin for his hot war on Georgia in a way that catches his attention?...
October 15, 2007 | Washington Times
Just when we thought we had things figured out, Russian President Vladimir Putin did the unexpected...
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Now we have another category: People who take early social security (and sacrifice higher pensions from later retirement) due to the fact that they cannot find jobs...
May 24, 2012 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Imagine the reaction if some higher authority told Texas to pay for the shortfall in California’s budget? This is exactly what the Californias of Europe and European Union bureaucrats are demanding of Germany...
May 9, 2012 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
The only reason to consider buying shares of Russian state companies is to wager that the corruption and mismanagement have been more than fully discounted. Investors cannot invest for value considerations...
May 6, 2012 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
The Sunday talk shows and the New York Times are attacking Romney for calling the handling of the Chen case a "shame for America." Romney, they say, spoke too soon...
May 2, 2012 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Under ObamaCare, non-partisan technocrats decide which medical services should be expanded and which cut back. Such decisions are not to be left to families who have to “think twice” about how they spend their money...
April 27, 2012 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
The trap Republicans face is that Obama can promise to have the government pay for any meritorious good – green cars, condoms, books, laptops, free public transportation, virtually anything – and paint those who oppose as miserly ogres who do not want to help...
April 22, 2012 | What Paul Gregory Is Thinking About (Blog)
The French election previews the U.S. November election contest between incumbent Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney in the following four ways...
April 17, 2012 | What Paul Gregory Is Thinking About (Blog)
One of the greatest Latin American success stories was the privatization of Argentina's YPF in July of 1993 against enormous political and labor opposition...
April 5, 2012 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
With its table “The Cost of Higher Fuel Economy,” the Times has blown the cover of the electric or hybrid car. They do not make economic sense even at much higher gas prices...
April 3, 2012 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Imagine that the two major Greek parties lose to the nationalists, communists, and other splinter parties, the Spanish conservative government dilutes austerity, and the stimulus-inclined socialists win in France. Those saying the crisis is over would be proven fools...
March 30, 2012 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
All tax preferences, even beloved ones such as the home interest deduction, distort economic decision making. So let’s get rid of all of them and place all economic activity on a level playing field...
March 13, 2012 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
What appears to liberals as mean spirited capitalism actually shortens the period of pain and accelerates the recovery. I guess they will never learn this elementary lesson...
March 4, 2012 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Here is an account of the sights and sounds of today’s Russian Presidential election. As expected, Putin sailed to an easy victory with over 60 percent of the vote...
March 1, 2012 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Greece’s long term problem is that lenders do not trust it to meet its obligations...
February 21, 2012 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
With an election coming up (and the public vehemently against outside intervention and austerity), Greece cannot meet its end of the bargain...
February 19, 2012 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
...[T]he President who threatened to ruin the project on which Boeing’s fate depends, stood before cheering crowds in Washington state to praise Boeing and its new 787, as "the perfect example of American ingenuity"...
February 15, 2012 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
The extension of the payroll tax holiday is bad economics. It may be good politics, or avoids a bad political outcome...
February 14, 2012 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Even if our gas prices rose to European levels, it still would not make economic sense to buy the Volt...
February 13, 2012 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Greece has held on so long by making promises it cannot keep, which its European neighbors pretend to believe. This farce is coming to an end...
February 12, 2012 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Most of us interpret “free to choose” in Milton Friedman’s sense...Obama, apparently, understands “free to choose” differently...
February 9, 2012 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Most “good deeds” of the Obama administration carry with them unanticipated consequences...By the time we see this, we are stuck with another four years...
February 1, 2012 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
So far I have counted about 25 announcements that the Euro crisis has been resolved or is about to be. I guess these headlines are wishful thinking...
January 28, 2012 | What Paul Gregory Is Thinking About (Blog)
If Mitt Romney wishes to become President of the United States, he must cease any and all defense of Massachusetts-Care. Rick Santorum told him that in so many words in Thursday's debate, and Santorum is right...
January 21, 2012 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
ABC, CNN and Juan Williams May Have Made Gingrich President...
January 11, 2012 | What Paul Gregory Is Thinking About (Blog)
If Mitt Romney is the Republican nominee, he will somehow have to explain to American voters what venture capital is and its positive contribution to growth and prosperity...
January 9, 2012 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Putin shut down political opposition, free press, and uncooperative oligarchs, but he elevated the Russian Orthodox Church to a core societal institution...A hostile Russian Orthodox Church poses a huge danger for Putin and his KGB state...
January 3, 2012 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
If we get upset by Putin’s dashing of the vestiges of Russian democracy, we should recognize that Yanukovich’s actions are even more blatant and reprehensible...
December 1, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Moral hazard and lenders of last resort are addictions. We realize their costs only after the fact, and then we must agree to yet another bailout. Otherwise the costs are too high...
November 30, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
The corrosive effect of the repression of one in four adults, most innocent of any real crime, can in no way be compensated for by the so-called economic achievements of the Stalin rule...
November 27, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Vladimir Putin accepted his party’s nomination to be its presidential candidate. No surprise in this. But this time round, he goes before the voters without a claim to legitimacy...
November 17, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
The Occupy Wall Street crowd is criticized for not offering an alternative to the capitalism that it says has failed. Maybe they should take the platform of Germany’s Die Linke (The Leftist) Party. It seems to suit their protest signs...
November 14, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
We are about to enter Madison’s nightmare. Although class-warfare appeals are as old as the hills, we now have an income tax system in which soon a majority of the population will pay no income taxes...
November 9, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Over the past decade, I visited Moscow some twenty five times. But this visit to attend the International Conference on the Soviet Gulag was my first in three years...
October 31, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Thinking About (Blog)
I see great opportunities for Gosplan planners like myself in the administration of President Obama...
October 25, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
The Soviet leadership did not publish deliberately falsified statistics. They just dropped statistical reporting when things went bad...It seems as if Brussels bureaucrats have learned from Soviet practice...
October 23, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Let’s accept the fact that the Libyans made the right choice and leave them alone. Let’s be glad they began their building of a new state with a good decision...
October 10, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Poland and Germany show how easily our illegal immigration problem could be solved by dynamic growth south of the border...
October 6, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Thinking About (Blog)
One of several reasons why Germany has the lowest unemployment rate in Europe is the “minijob...
September 17, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
How are we to explain how a U.S. President can publicly back a company whose own auditors correctly conclude it will not survive? None of the possible explanations inspire confidence...
September 8, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
The President put himself in a bad position. He heralded his jobs speech for weeks, but he had nothing new to say. He repackaged old ideas the best he could. It is my guess that the voting public will see things as they are...
September 1, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
The extension of unemployment insurance beyond the current almost two years will be a major plank in Obama’s job program. His new top economic advisor should tell him to drop that provision if he really wants to lower the unemployment rate...
August 21, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Thinking About (Blog)
The BEA’s downward revision of GDP revealed that we have yet to recover back to pre-recession levels...
August 20, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Thinking About (Blog)
I was planning to return to Moscow on August 23, 1991...
August 18, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
I suggest that in general the World Economic Forum's rankings are questionable, putting it in the most favorable light. In some cases, it is better to ignore their results. I did find one comparison that made sense and whose results are interesting...
August 16, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Thinking About (Blog)
In its Sunday edition, the New York Times informed its readers that “a wide range of economists say the administration should call for a new round of stimulus spending...
August 12, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Thinking About (Blog)
In my introductory economics classes, I teach that a well-run bank spends its time getting to know it customers and then makes loans to those who are credit worthy...
August 11, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
If the UN wanted to make itself useful, it should have a protection program for dictators who negotiate to leave office...
August 9, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
The new GM reported a profit of $2.5 billion for the second quarter of 2011...There is one fact missing in this optimistic story. The $50 billion bailout wiped out $40 billion of GM debt. It is a lot easier to make a profit if you have no debt payments...
August 8, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Thinking About (Blog)
A new Rhode Island state law places bondholders before other creditors in the case of bankruptcies of municipalities...
August 7, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
The New York Times Sunday editorial reveals point blank the liberal agenda...
August 7, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Those who blame the kamikaze, hostage-taking tea party for ruining the U.S. credit rating do not see what the bond market sees...
August 3, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
President Obama took advantage of the signing of the debt limit increase to “pivot” to jobs...The problem is that, other than approving free trade deals, the President’s job programs will not create any jobs...
August 2, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Advancing age offers unusual perspectives. The frenzied countdown to “default on the full faith and credit of the United States” reminded me of two events of long ago...
July 29, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Just as your Commander in Chief is responsible for our national defense, so must he or she guarantee the full faith and credit of the United States of America...
July 24, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
The treasury secretary is fortunate that the GAO has done his work for him. Let him cut the areas of waste and duplication so that he can send out the social security checks on time...
July 21, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
This amusing tussle among the green elite offers revealing insights and raises a series of questions about the economics and political economy of green electricity...
July 14, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
I am taken aback, to say the least, that I have yet to see a “serious” jobs program offered for our widely proclaimed “jobs crisis...
July 10, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Nothing symbolizes Russia’s economic problems better than its creaky electricity network...
July 7, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
The failure of BP’s venture with Rosneft provides tantalizing hints about how Russia is governed and its 2012 Election...
July 4, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
The Obama administration proposes to raise fuel efficiency to an average of 56.2. miles per gallon by 2025, putting the U.S. on par with Europe...
June 28, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
The inevitable has occurred. Former Illinois Governor, Rod Blagojevich, has been convicted for his role in trying to personally benefit from selecting (selling) Barack Obama’s Senate seat...
June 23, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
In 2012, the Chinese Communist Party chooses a new Politburo. This once-in-a-decade event will set China’s course through 2025...
June 14, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
I do not need 90 days and millions of government money to give you my “Jobs Council” recommendations...
June 10, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Instead of rewarding success in business, Putin’s Russia offers entrepreneurs “deals” they cannot refuse. The “deal” is that powerful state and state-connected officials will take their share of your success...
June 8, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Neither has much concern abut the increased cost of energy to industry and the consumer, but the loss of desert tortoises is something they can worry about...
June 2, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
In a word, China’s era of unlimited supplies of labor has ended as is evidenced by the incredibly rapid wage inflation...
June 1, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Losses...Bad Mistakes...Unlikely Wins...Possible Wins...
May 31, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Medicare has a new success criterion for rewarding hospitals: “Medicare spending per beneficiary...”
May 27, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
The 2012 election may depend on whether voters understand that free lunches are not free...
May 24, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
The Russian Supreme Court today upheld former oil tycoon, Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s conviction to a second prison term. Khodorkovsky, now Russia’s most prominent political prisoner, will return to his Siberian jail cell...
May 22, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
If federal regulators base their actions on “motives,” they have assumed unlimited power...
May 22, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
If the New Theory of Unions holds any water, unions might be advised to turn their attention from politics to making their members more efficient and productive...
May 15, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
U.S. business may know something about China they are not telling us...
May 14, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
The New York Times outdid itself in media bias on Friday the 13th...
May 13, 2011
“Conservative” NYT columnist, David Brooks, has suddenly turned optimist...
May 11, 2011
Any conservative thinker, when confronted with the question of non-working adult males, would consider the incentives and human motivations underlying the “Missing Seventeen Percent”...
May 10, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Our tax code has become a blunt instrument for political mugging, shakedowns, and intimidation...
May 9, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
The Pentagon’s image makers have again displayed their skills (or was it the CIA?)...
May 8, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Strapped American families can rest easy. On Thursday April 21, Attorney General Eric Holder Attorney rode to our rescue with the following announcement...
May 7, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
In my March 4 posting, I wrote that BP was about to be rolled by Russia again. On Friday, the debacle took place...
May 4, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Academic specialists know a great deal, but they are not good at sharing their results with general readers...
April 28, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
It is not easy to overthrow a dictator, especially one who is willing to do anything and everything to stay in power...Here are the ingredients for the overthrow of a totalitarian regime...
April 28, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
There are three other 2012 elections that have greater long-run significance, if one can imagine that...
April 25, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Our diplomats and journalists must learn that dictatorships operate according to specific dynamics that do not depend on the education, background, or humanistic orientation of their leaders...
April 21, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Despite speculation of major changes, none were visible at Cuba’s first party congress in sixteen years...
April 21, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Wu Ying, a 29 year-old Chinese female entrepreneur, faces the death penalty for “illegal fund raising.” Her crime: raising and pooling funds outside of the official lending system...
April 19, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
The worst time to draw conclusions about the superiority of one economic and political system over another is at the end of an economic downturn...
April 18, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Thinking About (Blog)
One pleasure in reading the New York Times is its movie reviews...
April 15, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Thinking About (Blog)
The transition from street thug to state mafia took a decade in Russia...
April 11, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
It is a mistake to judge economic performance by glittery infrastructure projects...
April 9, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Simple economic analysis provides a tried-and-true guide for those who really want to understand the debate. Economics suggests the following points...
April 3, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Qadaffi is an experienced despot; otherwise he would not have held office for forty years. He knows how to calculate the best ways to stay in power. By my count, Qadaffi can be defeated in four ways...
April 1, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
In revising my Comparing Economic Systems in the 21st Century, I was struck by the relevance of the writings of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Adam Smith to our current political-economic debates...
March 26, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Friday and Saturday’s papers brought more news of BP’s travails in Russia,...[and] BP’s chances do not look good...
March 24, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Thinking About (Blog)
Russia has been downgraded by Freedom House from “partially free” to “unfree” with good reason: regional and municipal officials are no longer elected, but appointed by the Kremlin...
March 21, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
The collapse of the Soviet Union and its empire in Eastern Europe created a real-world laboratory for spawning democracy...
March 18, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Thinking About (Blog)
Republicans sometimes ask: “What would Reagan do? Christians ask: “What would Christ have done in this situation.” Dictators like Qadaffi, Saddam Hussein, and Kim Il Sung could ask the same question of their patron saint: Josif Stalin...
March 17, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
The current hysterical press and TV reports are indeed creating a “mental health impact” as large as or larger than that of Chernobyl...
March 16, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Russia’s regional and municipal elections on Sunday resulted in a shellacking of Putin’s United Russia that few noticed...
March 14, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
If history is a guide, the March 2011 earthquake will not have a large effect on Japan’s GDP. There is no denying it could not have come at a worse time for the Japanese economy...
March 11, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
As the Western powers dither and deliberate, Gaddafi has won. He will stay in power even if we establish no-fly zones or impose sanctions with sharp teeth...
March 4, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Even if these conversations never took place, they will be imagined by Western parties who know that the worst can happen to them in Russia...
March 2, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
These poll results are so out of line with conventional thinking that they require careful scrutiny. My own (admittedly non-expert) examination raises three red flags...
February 28, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Thinking About (Blog)
As Kaddafi machine guns demonstrators, we are told these are acts of an insane man...
February 26, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Thinking About (Blog)
The European welfare state is a boogeyman for conservatives and a panacea for the left...
February 22, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
The fact that Iraq has been spared a general popular uprising is proof that it has arrived as a democracy...
February 20, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Those caught up in the euphoria of democratic street demonstrations must confront the reality that the long-run outcome is likely to be bad...
February 18, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
At a much higher level, the Khodorkovsky verdict is having uncomfortable ramifications...
February 16, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Every now and then, acts of courage by ordinary citizens have big consequences...
February 15, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Our pleas for them to become “democrats” will go unheeded. From their perspective, this is very bad advice...
February 13, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
In countries with poor institution, wealth is accumulated either by the head of state or by his cronies by transferring assets from others or from society itself...
February 6, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
As a teacher of comparative economics and textbook author on the subject, I cannot refrain from commenting on President Obama’s unfortunate lack of understanding of business...
January 31, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
The hard reality is that this optimistic scenario rarely works out. A worse (or equally bad) dictator rises to the top, not a democracy or even a more benevolent dictator...
January 26, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
How Western investors accept the Medvedev-Putin invitation is yet another test for world capital markets...
January 16, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
The West has lectured Russia since 1991 on the importance of the rule of law...No matter how badly Western energy concerns are treated, they (like the hapless Charlie Brown) will take another kick at the disappearing football...
January 16, 2011 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Buried in the Wikileaks releases is an account of a rare meeting of Moscow Embassy officials in September of 2008 with the reclusive management of Russia’s largest company, Gazprom...
December 15, 2010 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
The reason for the delay is obvious: Western newsmen leave Moscow between Christmas and New Year. Few will be in the Moscow court room to hear the predictable guilty verdict and the new prison sentence...
December 5, 2010 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
It will take years for the United States to restore its image as a trustworthy diplomatic partner. U.S. diplomacy has suffered a severe set back and its national security has been damaged by the Wikileak dumps of classified documents...
November 24, 2010 | Advancing a Free Society
Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently said that North Korea remains predictable in its unpredictability. Mullen’s view is incorrect...
October 7, 2010 | What Paul Gregory Is Thinking About (Blog)
Michael Warren in his article “Why Germany’s Unemployment Rate is Lower” concludes that Germany’s practice of Kurzarbeit (“short work”) is a primary factor behind Germany’s shrinking unemployment rate...
Interviews
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Guests: Co-Host Mary Kissel, WSJ; Ilaria Maria Sala, La Stampa; Isaac Stone Fish, Foreign Policy; Paul Gregory, Hoover...
April 27, 2012 | John Batchelor Show
Guests: Co-Host Mary Kissel, WSJ; Henry Nau, Hoover; Gordon Chang, Forbes; Paul Gregory, Hoover; David Livingston, The Space Show...
December 5, 2011 | John Batchelor Show
Guests: Co-Host John Avlon, CNN; David Drucker, Roll Call; Lou Ann Hammond, Driving the Nation; Bill Roggio, Long War Journal; Arif Rafiq, Pakistan Policy Blog; Paul Gregory, author...
September 30, 2011 | John Batchelor Show
GUESTS: Reza Khalili, Time To Betray; Jeff Gerth, Pro Publica; Ray Jayawardhana, author; Paul Gregory, Hoover...
June 15, 2011 | John Batchelor Show
GUESTS: Joseph Sternberg, WSJ; Paul Gregory, Hoover; Matt Kaminsky, WSJ; Anne Jolis, WSJ...
May 26, 2011 | John Batchelor Show
March 15, 2011 | John Batchelor Show
GUESTS: Bret Stephens, WSJ; David Weidner, NYT; Robert Zimmerman, BehindTheBlack.com; Paul Gregory, Hoover...
March 6, 2011 | John Batchelor Show
Paul Gregory, Hoover, in re: the dictators like the madness. Stalin and other dictators, Aaron Klein, WABC, in re: Gaza and Ramallah report; Cairo, Amman, and Riyadh reports...
February 21, 2011 | John Batchelor Show
GUESTS: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com; Paul Gregory, Hoover; Marc Morano, ClimateDepot.com; Jim McTague, Barron's Magazine...
December 6, 2010 | John Batchelor Show
GUESTS: Paul Gregory, Hoover Institution; John Bolton, AEI; Steve Lohr, NYT; Kim Strassel, WSJ...
July 28, 2010 | Secure Freedom Radio
On today’s show, Frank visits with Paul Gregory of the Hoover Institution who will share his insights into the history of the Soviet Union/Russian state and how it seems that it is being reconstituted by Vladimir Putin as a KGB state...
July 12, 2010 | EconTalk
Paul Gregory of the University of Houston and a Research Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Nikolai Bukharin's power struggle with Stalin and Bukharin's romance with Anna Larina...
June 23, 2010 | KCBS (CA)
Dr. Paul Gregory, a research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, on Russian President Dimitry Medvedev’s visit to Silicon Valley high-tech companies, as he looks to bring more technological innovation to his country...
June 15, 2009 | What Paul Gregory Is Thinking About (Blog)
In the Hoover Institution Archives’s Volkogonov microfilm collection, there is a remarkable document dated March 23, 1923 from Joseph Stalin to the Politburo...
March 1, 2009 | What Paul Gregory Is Thinking About (Blog)
The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in December of 1979...
