A bipartisan group of Capitol Hill staffers were in Silicon Valley last week to gain an immersion into the complex world of cybersecurity. The range of experts they heard from included tech industry leaders, scholars representing a range of disciplines and former government officials.
Trump’s plan of mass deportations en masse is unworkable, but that’s not an argument against weeding out criminals and those without work histories in the U.S.
Amid a campaign of terror that has included beheadings and suicide bombings, recent reports from the Middle East that Islamic State extremists may now have stolen enough material for a radioactive “dirty bomb” are chilling — but should not be shocking.
In a post earlier this morning, in which I responded to Kurt Schlichter, I quoted the following from Schlichter: Number One: We Americans have an absolute right to decide who does and doesn't come into our country and the conditions under which they may do so.
The United States is blessed to have many excellent schools, including hundreds of fantastic high schools, such as those that recently received recognition from Newsweek. And our high schools as a whole deserve credit for helping to push America’s graduation rate to all-time highs.
I try to reread 3 books ever 10 years or so: To Kill a Mockingbird, Lucky Jim, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This summer, the second book I read was Huck Finn.
This is completely alarming. From Wired a few weeks ago: PUT A COMPUTER on a sniper rifle, and it can turn the most amateur shooter into a world-class marksman.
The Brookings Financial and Digital Inclusion Project (FDIP) evaluates access to and usage of affordable financial services by underserved people across 21 countries.
Even many very pro-free-market economists, noting that there is imperfect information in the marketplace, advocate that government provide information or require private firms to provide information.
UPDATE: I was wrong. Alex Tabarrok has provided the data from FRED. I should have done so. Median family income was $56,447 in 1984, down slightly from $56,585 in 1980.
Robert Tetlow has published a fascinating research paper in the International Journal of Central Banking on policy robustness with the Fed’s FRB/US model. Perhaps the most important part of the paper is his careful documentation of the enormous shifts in the coefficients and the equations of FRB/US over time.
Chester E. Finn Jr. has three very bright granddaughters. He thinks they "have considerable academic potential and are not always being challenged by their schools."
Outsiders have seldom been the real thing. Donald Trump has bragged about using government influence to get rich. Sanders’s policies would concentrate more power and resources in the nation’s capital.
As Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces took over Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in early 2014, the interim Ukrainian government was debating whether or not to fight back against the “little green men” Russia had deployed.
Meanwhile, Daoud Shihab, the spokesperson of the Islamic Jihad, said the Israeli regime seeks to pave the ground for a new aggression by making such allegations against Damascus and the Palestinian resistance movement.
As economist David Henderson points out, even many free market advocates believe that government-mandated warnings are a largely harmless way to protect the public against various risks
We can learn a lot from the adventure on the high-speed French train between Amsterdam and Paris. First of all, many – indeed most – of the early reports were wrong. Almost all early reports about violent events are mistaken, and this was no exception.
