Tyler Cowen and co-blogger Arnold Kling have commented on what they see as the main failings of left-wing and market-oriented economists...But here's one failing, that neither Tyler nor Arnold mentions...
The National Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, under the tight control of a politically sophisticated White House, is still trying to raise funds by supporting the desertion from legislative duty taking place in Wisconsin and Indiana...
Was the decision not to rescue Lehman the precipitating cause of the crisis? Or was it the decision months before to rescue the creditors of Bear Stearns via the marriage to JP Morgan Chase...?
House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon lost no time in introducing legislation in response to the President’s Executive Order yesterday. Here is a quick and dirty analysis...
This therapeutic generation of Americans loves to talk and worry about problems and then assumes that either someone else will solve them or they will go away on their own...
Victor Davis Hanson, from the Hoover Institution, Stanford University and a contributor at Pajama's Media discussed the historical decline of countries in the past through monetary collapse...
Today marks the 235th anniversary of Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, otherwise known as The Wealth of Nations. I chatted with GMU economics professor Russ Roberts on the book and its enduring impact...
GUESTS: Co-hosts Gordon Chang, Forbes.com and Jeff Bliss, The Bliss Index; Sharon LaFrontiere, NYT; Christopher Tan, Straits Times; Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution; Jon Decker, Reuters...