Last February, President Barack Obama appointed the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (Bowles-Simpson Commission)...To balance the budget in 2015, the commission needs to find $1.2 trillion in savings ($240 billion a year)...
The fate of [Juan] Williams reminds us that Americans have developed two personas — one public and politically correct, the other private. Mix the two and big trouble ensues...
Life has been so dull since the nation’s major banks had their last existential crisis a year or so ago. Right now, it’s like watching a beloved rerun...
...I just returned from the International Criminal Court in The Hague where the Palestinians are apparently attempting an end-run around the Middle East peace process to get international institutions such as the ICC to recognize a Palestinian state, with no negotiation or compromise at all...
A year and a half ago when the Fed’s extraordinary quantitative easing (QE) was shifting from emergency liquidity programs to large scale asset purchases, we convened a conference at Stanford’s Hoover Institution to discuss the shift...
The most interesting observation of the electoral season is from Michael Barone of the American Enterprise Institute. He notes that during bad economic times over the last 50 years, the upper-Midwest states tend to swing toward Dems...
Following her chat with Glenn Hutchins at the Quebec City Conference about how globalization is changing corporate strategy, Chrystia interviewed NYU Economics Professor A. Michael Spence about how globalization is bringing about structural change in the world’s leading economies...
GUESTS: Co-hosts Jeff Bliss, The Bliss Index and Gordon Chang, Forbes.com; Rick Outzen, Pensacola Independent; John Avlon, The Daily Beast; Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA); Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution...
At a London news conference, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was joined by Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers almost 40 years ago. Ellsberg called Assange "the most dangerous man in the world..."
