When the nature of a just society is discussed, those who defend big government solutions to problems tend to start with orphaned children and catastrophes, claiming that only by means of massive government intervention can a society cope...
Washington Post staff writers Alec Klein and Zach Goldfarb were online Monday, June 16 at 12:30 p.m. ET with guest John Taylor, Stanford economics professor, to discuss their three-part narrative series about the U.S. housing bust...
I would ask if it is possible for federal energy policy to become any more backward and senseless than it now is, but I fear as soon as I do, Washington will outdo itself and make matters worse...
What do the farm bill, the cap-and-trade global warming bill, the clean water bill, the housing bailout bill, and the school construction bill all have in common?...
Members of the California State Assembly's no-amount-of-regulation-is-ever- enough Democratic caucus recently announced forthcoming legislation to address oil spills...
In the mid-1990s, Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, then a proud Democrat, dropped by the Republican-American's offices for a rare visit with the editorial board...
Deplore as he must the current minor Internet buzz about abolishing the Federal Reserve Board or impeaching its leaders, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke must have a grudging historical sense that 75 years ago, such chastisement might have been appropriate...
As of now anyone who follows commodity markets, international affairs, or the global food situation has heard about the Argentina export tax hike on grains; more specifically soybeans...
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