The Federal Reserve chairman’s tenure has been checkered at best. There must be other candidates who could be expected ...
Speculation that Ben Bernanke might be appointed for a second term as Federal Reserve chairman after his first term expires in January 2010 has to remind one of Washington’s Alice in ...
Tyler Cowen has written one of the most stimulating defenses of Internet information culture.
I liken my information consumption patterns to eating at a churrascaria restaurant, the Brazilian style steakhouse where passadors (meat waiters) circle your table with knives and a skewer and offer ...
The Ensign and Sanford scandals are beside the point. The Republican Party is going to have a hard time coming up with ...
The conventional wisdom, as recorded in the New York Times, is that the Republican party is in terrible trouble because of the confessions in the past two weeks of adultery by two possible ...
There’s much chatter that the Chinese renminbi will eventually replace the U.S. dollar as the world’s preeminent ...
There has been much chatter of late in the media about the inevitability of the Chinese renminbi eventually replacing the U.S. dollar as the world’s preeminent international reserve currency. ...
A cap-and-trade system with freely allocated permits is equivalent to a carbon tax in which the tax revenue is given to ...
The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, a bill co-authored by Congressmen Henry A. Waxman and Edward J. Markey, may soon come to the House floor for a vote. The bill details an expansive ...
Although the Supreme Court dodged the constitutionality question of Section 5, most Court observers believe that the ...
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court swung the first chop on the log of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. In an 8–1 decision in Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One v. Holder, ...
The Supreme Court’s examination of Bilski this summer will not be quite as big a blockbuster as “Transformers,” but in ...
The “Transformers” sequel hits theaters today, expecting to break all sorts of opening-weekend box office records. The metamorphosing robots have now captured the attention—and ...
The House of Representatives recently received a painful lesson in the pitfalls of carbon offsets. Despite this, it has ...
In 2007, the House of Representatives launched its “Green the Capitol” initiative, which took on the goal of making House offices carbon neutral. After purchasing compact fluorescent ...
The focus of the Federal Open Market Committee’s meeting will be on how recent financial market developments, mainly in ...
Financial markets are eagerly anticipating the Federal Open Market Committee’s next meeting on June 23 and 24 for additional clarification as to how the Fed is to implement the unorthodox ...
Will the government taking over responsibility for healthcare reduce the total cost of it?
Much is made of the way in which the government taking over responsibility for healthcare is going to reduce the total cost of it. Of course this would be possible if, having taken over the financing, ...