A LOT has been written recently, pro and con, about the Fed’s new round of quantitative easing, dubbed QE2. But, frankly, much of the discussion on both sides lacks a coherent analytical framework for thinking about the key issues. I try here to provide such a framework...
To deter North Korea, we should now express and follow through on the sort of solidarity that is unquestioned, a kind of solidarity that has been sorely lacking in the last two years...And, in a larger sense, the commander-in-chief needs to stop his contextualizing and apologizing...
America’s only realistic reply to North Korea’s nuclear-arming and peace-disturbing attacks is action from China. The road to stability on the KoreanPeninsula runs through Beijing...
The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is quite clear in its language, at least to me. Perhaps litigation will halt or modify TSA search procedures currently in place at airports. Perhaps not...
In a speech in Washington last week I made a proposal to restore the legislative requirement that the Fed report and be accountable for its strategy for monetary policy...
...Steve has written a thoughtful objection to Jack and my oped and series of posts arguing against bringing Guantanamo detainees to trial...[he]makes several thematically-related points that I wish to address specifically...
by Charles Blahousvia e21, Economic Policies for the 21st Century
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
The BPC proposal is a serious plan, backed up with an impressive amount of analysis and documentation. It’s also a plan under which Social Security, just as under current law, would grow much more expensive to taxpayers in the future than it is now...
These are troubled times for language programs in the United States, which have been battered by irresponsible cutbacks at all levels...leaders in government and policy circles continue to live in a bubble of their own making...
Education Next’s Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk about how the Republican landslide will affect education policymaking at the state and local levels. Will state and local governments figure out how to downsize? Can they accomplish reform through reallocation...?
