by Charles Blahousvia e21, Economic Policies for the 21st Century
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Recent statements from key policy personnel of AARP, the powerful lobby for the elderly, expressed a willingness to consider reductions in future Social Security benefit growth...I do not see their recent comments as significant or new...
For the last 235 years, on the Fourth of July, Americans have celebrated the birth of the United States, and the founding ideas that have made it the most powerful, wealthiest and freest nation in the history of civilization. But as another Fourth of July approaches, there has never been more uncertainty about the future of America...
President Obama spoke in Iowa the other day about the economy. In a sense, it was the launching of the re-election campaign. I thought it might be interesting to evaluate the economics and see what he thinks is going to be effective politically...
Some Jews - including this one - have indeed made the transition to the GOP, in part because it has actively courted us and in part because many see the Democrats as the party of the redistribution of wealth...
Several things are disturbing about the media’s completely uncritical, credulous coverage of [a recent study of the regulatory approvals of cancer drugs]...
Today, with a statue in the appropriately named Freedom Square in Budapest, Hungarians will honor the man who helped secure their freedom at last from Communist rule...