By Veronique de Rugy
In his latest budget request, President Obama added roughly $1.6 trillion in spending over the next ten years on top of what he requested last year. Can President Obama blame that extra $1.6 trillion on former President Bush?
For the first time by any administration in memory, the Obama budget forecast rejects the Medicare Trustees’ ...
The Obama administration’s fiscal year 2011 budget continues a pattern of ignoring independent analysis and rigging economic assumptions to meet political goals. For the first time by any ...
How ironic that during the ‘drill, baby, drill’ demonstrations as gasoline prices spiked in 2007 and 2008, a silent ...
The 20th century was the century of oil. Wars were fought over it, and the outcomes of the century’s biggest conflicts hinged on the stuff. In World War I, for instance, Churchill’s ...
Recent events and trends within Asia may well portend a stepped up pace for Asian regionalism—and heightened danger ...
In December, my American Enterprise Institute colleague Philip Levy and I published an International Economic Outlook, entitled “Tales of the South Pacific: President Obama and the Transpacific ...
The false idea that our bodies have become ‘toxic waste dumps’ is not just wrong but counterproductive.
Chemophobia is not a new phenomenon in our culture. Since the 1960s, much of the public has been afraid of exposure to chemicals. This is not surprising considering environmental disaster stories ...
The German government has slowly begun to accept the reality that, to save Afghanistan from the return of Taliban rule, ...
At last Thursday’s Afghanistan conference in London, Guido Westerwelle, the foreign minister in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s new government, presented Germany’s proposal for a revised ...
The National Security Council has ordered that the intelligence community downgrade China from a first to a second ...
The Obama National Security Council has ordered the U.S. intelligence community to downgrade China as an intelligence collection priority. Though the president has made no secret of his desire to ...
The proposed budget freeze is akin to skipping dessert after binging at an all-you-can-eat buffet, and still hoping to ...
The president announced in his State of the Union address last night that he will put the federal government on a diet. The centerpiece of this diet, he explained, rests on a three-year freeze of ...
Americans understand that federal spending policies that waste money, trickle into the economy too slowly, and lead to ...
A year ago, Congress enacted a massive bill intended to jolt the economy out of recession. With an official ten-year price tag of $787 billion (recently revised upwards to $862 billion by the ...
The administration might be settling for superficial progress on financial reform to avoid being on the wrong side of ...
President Obama was flanked by his top economic advisers when he outlined a vision for financial reform Thursday morning. The economics team is filled with professionals of the first order, including ...
Factory and mill town Massachusetts responded very differently to last week’s Senate election than ‘educated class’ ...
Republican Scott Brown’s 52%–47% victory in Massachusetts’s special Senate election on January 19 has shaken the political firmament. It’s a stunning achievement for a ...
Most Americans favor allowing openly gay men and women to serve in the military.