by Charles Blahousvia e21, Economic Policies for the 21st Century
Friday, September 23, 2011
As policy makers wrestle with our current multiple fiscal and economic challenges, we should avoid making false analogies between conditions in 2001 and those in evidence now...
Behind the new regulatory state are millions of academics, lawyers, bureaucrats, organizers, and freelance consultants who first create a new need for the rules, and then magically step in armed with their rare expertise...
Although [Rep. Michelle Bachmann’s (R-MN) stunning gaffes over Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s 2007 executive order] will become merely a footnote to history, it raises a critical, broader issue: the importance of politicians’ judgement and insight – or lack thereof...
Debate winners: (1) Romney came prepared for Perry’s barbs; (2) Johnson, for best one-liner...Debate losers: Bachmann, for once again winding up as a debate wallflower; Google’s “time’s-up” sound-effect...
As the world grants an audience to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, we would be better served to look upon Samiye Tohidlou...
Europeans, both debtors and creditors, must address the banking problem forthrightly, and simultaneously with the euro, sovereign-debt, and fiscal-adjustment issues...
The question is whether [Ban Ki-moon] has the fortitude and simple decency to act boldly and to save the lives of these unarmed men, women and children of Ashraf...
NYU Professor and Nobel Laureate Michael Spence says the speed and composition of a U.S. recovery will be determined by Washington and the delicate balance between investment and spending cuts...
Round after round of education reform has failed in recent decades, and one major reason is our anachronistic and deeply flawed system for organizing and operating public schools...
