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June 23, 2009 | Creators Syndicate

Another “Good Thing”

Even if the "stimulus" package doesn't seem to be doing much to stimulate the economy, it is certainly stimulating many potential recipients of government money to start lining up at the trough...

June 16, 2009 | Forbes

Steering Clear Of The Executive Compensation Bog

It's hardly news to anyone that deregulation has become a dirty word in the Obama administration...

June 9, 2009 | Forbes

Why The Taylor Act Must Go

On previous occasions, I have lamented about the manifest dangers of public unions...

June 5, 2009 | Financial Times (registration required)

Letters to the Editor: Insouciance about debt is dangerously misplaced

Sir, I am glad to have furnished grist to Martin Wolf’s mill (“Rising government bond rates prove policy is working”, June 3)...

June 5, 2009 | Forbes

The Roots Of Liberalism

A near quadrupling of the federal deficit in 2009 alone. The nationalization of the Detroit automakers...

June 3, 2009 | Guardian (UK)

Twenty years after a victory and a defeat, time for a progress report

Someone should institute an annual 4 June review of the Chinese, European and American models...

May 30, 2009 | Financial Times (registration required)

A history lesson for economists in thrall to Keynes

On Wednesday last week, yields on 10-year US Treasuries - generally seen as the benchmark for long-term interest rates - rose above 3.73 per cent...

June 2, 2009 | New York Times (registration required)

Europe’s Advantage

California — the state in which I reside — has many advantages...

June 1, 2009 | Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News (NY)

Science and Technology Are Essential to Economic Recovery

In his weekly message on March 7, President Obama tried to reassure a nation jittery about the economy: “With every test, each generation has found the capacity to not only endure, but to prosper­to discover great opportunity in the midst of great crisis.”...

June 1, 2009 | Telegraph (UK)

The trillion dollar question: China or America?

Two years ago, economist Moritz Schularick and I coined the word "Chimerica" to describe what we saw as the key relationship in the then-booming global economy: China plus America...