If it is true, as often reported, that 2,000–3,000 residents are leaving California per week, and that many of them are top earners, will the additional taxes entice them back, or do we simply wish them, and many of the jobs they create, good riddance...?
Rebuilding strong neighborhood schools is certainly part of the solution to the problem...But replicating high-performing charter schools, and expanding the city’s private-school-scholarship program, could help too...
Was Hayek an important macroeconomist? I would argue that the macroeconomic skepticism of the later Hayek is more valuable than the macroeconomic theorizing of the early Hayek...
If there’s a Teddy Roosevelt in 2012 America, it would be...not Barack Obama...April 1912 is the 100th anniversary of the Titanic’s voyage. Is there a better occasion for this President to talk about his handling of the economy...?
Charles Blahous, whom Obama appointed last year to be one of the six trustees of Social Security and Medicare, thinks it's a far greater danger than most people anticipate...