by Charles Blahousvia e21, Economic Policies for the 21st Century
Monday, November 28, 2011
[H]ow is the Social Security issue surviving the 2012 Republican presidential contest so far? In the main, pretty well. Below I’ll describe the good, the truly impressive, the bad, and the ugly from the current election season...
The resignations of Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi have highlighted how Greece, Italy, and many other countries obscured for too long their bloated public sectors’ long-standing problems with unsustainable social-welfare ben
The point of the Establishment clause was to prevent the government from establishing state religions, not to remove God from the public square entirely...
The [EU] spent more than a half billion dollars to underwrite Congo's first nationwide election in 2006. That election was not perfect, but it led to economic and political progress. As the country goes to the polls today, however, those gains risk being squandered...
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...
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...
Another early November pile-up is headed California’s way in 2012. The bodies in motion: not automobiles, but ballot initiatives affecting California’s tax code...
Senator Mark Udall of Colorado is pushing an amendment to the NDAA to strip the bill of its detainee-affairs provisions and require further study of the relevant issues from both the executive branch and relevant congressional committees...
[A recent Defense Department report to Congress] aims to bolster U.S. deterrence against cyberthreats but, in fact, highlights weaknesses in our deterrence policy...
Nominating Mitt Romney is sort of like taking grandma's castor oil. Republicans are dreading the thought of downing their unpleasant-tasting medicine but worry that sooner or later they will have to...
If society is to derive the maximum benefit from personalized medicine – which will require companies to pursue it – regulators worldwide will need to adopt reasoned and reasonable policies...
So what do these 11 states want to do differently on the accountability front? Particularly when it comes to identifying schools that should be subject to some sort of sanctions or interventions...?
[ASU] President Michael Crow has suggested in a series of published commentaries that the [NIH], currently funded to the tune of $31 billion annually, has not served the nation well and should be reorganized. But his cure surely would be worse than the disease...
For the annual "Face the Nation" Thanksgiving weekend Books and Authors show, Bob Schieffer is joined by...Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, whose memoir No Higher Honor, tells of her days as George Bush's Secretary of State...
