In a comment on a recent post of mine on worker safety, in which I highlighted the "Job Safety" entry by W. Kip Viscusi in The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, MikeDC wrote: If you've got an impoverished and hungry subsistence or near subsistence level population, you don't have much have to worry about their safety. You just replace them if they get hurt or die.
With Hillary Clinton's multiple misdeeds coming to light and causing her political problems, reflected in her declining support in the polls, both she and the Democratic Party have reason to be concerned. But both of them may yet be rescued by "The Donald," who can turn out to be their Trump card.
There has been a lot of excitement recently over what many people call the "sharing economy," in which new firms such as Uber, Lyft, Airbnb and other website businesses are increasing the value of capital assets.
When the first monthly Social Security checks were mailed in 1940, male and female life expectancy was 61 and 65, respectively; life expectancy of men and women is now 76 and 81.
Most of the Republicans attacking Donald Trump are missing the real significance of the Donald and his popularity. A lot of Republicans and independents don’t like establishment Republicans.
The Obama administration likes to say that the only alternative to its nuclear deal with Iran would be a military confrontation. But there is a much better alternative: facilitate the prompt and peaceful replacement of Iran’s Islamist regime.
The Hoover Institution Press released A Memoir of the Missile Age: One Man’s Journey, a firsthand account of the emerging nuclear arms race between the Soviet Union and the United States.
Hoover Institution fellow Stephen Kotkin presents his New York Times critically acclaimed biography Stalin: Volume 1: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 at Strand.
Banks are discriminatory in handing out loans to minorities. Women earn less money than men due to employer discrimination. There are wide disparities in wealth and income because the rich steal from the poor.
Austerity, diet of our lives, girder of our loins. At the moment, the word brings to mind the continuing crisis in Greece and, by extension, the power of the Germans holding the purse strings.
In a thoughtful consideration of the state of the conservative movement, Peter Berkowitz writes of fellow conservatives: “They should distinguish among what they can alter, what they must accept and what they should embrace.
As my wife and I waited to see a screening of "Best of Enemies," a new documentary focusing on the debates between the conservative publisher William Buckley Jr. and the liberal author Gore Vidal in the summer 1968, I overheard another guest say, "It will be nice to see a movie about a time when television was so much better at the news than it is today."
"Faute de mieux." That means "for want of something better" in Secretary of State John Kerry's second language. It's also the best case made by its journalistic defenders for approval of the nuclear weapons deal Kerry negotiated with Iran.
Remember when growth was the norm? No, really. Not too long ago, Americans could expect good job growth no matter which party was in the White House — Clinton and Reagan created almost 40 million jobs between them.
While the world’s attention has been firmly fixed on Greece’s debt crisis and the “Grexit” threat, there is trouble brewing much closer to home. Staying largely in the Greek shadow, Puerto Rico is on the brink of defaulting on its debts.
