By Roger Bate and Karen Porter
The debate over patent breaking in Thailand comes to Capitol Hill.
Marketing-driven clinical trials intend to increase sales and profits—but also yield enormous benefits for patients.
The August 19th issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, one of the most widely read medical journals anywhere, featured an article by Kevin Hill and three co-authors with the mysterious title, ...
To understand the rise of China, study the Kaiser.
China's emergence over the past three decades as a global power has an eerie resemblance to the arrival of another global power a century ago. In the mid-1860s, the German nation was scattered among ...
A ban on new fast-food restaurants in south Los Angeles doesn’t address the real causes of obesity.
At a time when public officials across America are finding creative ways to combat the “obesity epidemic,” the Los Angeles City Council has decided to try a radical approach: it is ...
India is a center for drug counterfeiting—a deadly business that is spreading to the United States and Europe.
India is a center for drug counterfeiting—a profitable and deadly business that is spreading to the United States and Europe. Fake drugs are lethal and a growing global problem. As much ...
The Environmental Protection Agency has missed a golden opportunity to alleviate high global food prices.
Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rejected a request from the State of Texas to reduce the amount of biofuels that must be blended into gasoline over the next year. By ...
Your handy guide to America’s political conventions both past and present.
In September 1831, the Anti-Masonic Party held the nation’s first political convention in Baltimore. One hundred and sixteen delegates attended from 13 states. The Democrats held their first ...
C.V. Starr’s Hank Greenberg on Eliot Spitzer, Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the economy.
Maurice R. “Hank” Greenberg is CEO of C.V. Starr & Company, a private global investment firm headquartered in Manhattan. The company was named after its founder, Cornelius Vander ...
The most popular cars of all time share more than the road.
What’s the best-selling car of all time? I took an informal poll recently and made it a point to ask some people who are real car buffs. I got some interesting answers. One person said 1957 ...
The corporate tax-cut race; Wal-Mart to the rescue; the case for genetically modified foods; smoking bans; and more.
To Join the Tax-Cut Race? Reducing the corporate tax rate would be a simple way to boost U.S. competitiveness. Earlier this year we noted that the World Economic Forum had ranked America as the ...
By now, central bankers should have figured out that this is more than just a liquidity dilemma.
When asked in the 1960s for his assessment of the French Revolution, Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai famously observed that it was still too early to draw definitive conclusions. The same might be said of ...
Senator Obama’s proposed ‘tax cuts for the middle class’ are actually marginal rate hikes in disguise.
Senator Barack Obama declared recently that he wants to “reform our tax code so that it rewards work and not just wealth.” We think that is a great goal if it means a simple tax system ...
Minneapolis Fed President Gary Stern says that ‘the too-big-to-fail problem, with which I have long been concerned, has been exacerbated by actions taken over the past year to bolster financial stability’. . .
Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs has hired Todd Malan, ‘one of Washington’s top lobbyists for foreign investors’. . .
Tony Blair argues that the Beijing Olympics ‘mark a new epoch—an opening up of China that can never be reversed’. . .
Not all fans of the Yankees, Mets, Giants, and Jets are happy about their teams’ new stadiums. . .
How will Brazil manage its burgeoning oil wealth?
Faced with a 'perilous regulatory environment,' American social network sites are considering 'how far they are willing to go' to get Chinese customers. . .
Harvard Univesity professor Larry Summers argues that U.S. international economic policy is receiving too little attention in the presidential election. . .
A recent study suggests that money may make people 'less willing to seek or give help, or even to sit close to others'. . .
With population and food prices skyrocketing across the globe, rich countries are buying up land from poorer ones. . .
Does John McCain need 'a Joe of his own'?
Economists at the Federal Reserve's annual Jackson Hole retreat are predicting a 'very long' road to recovery for the U.S. economy. . .
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rules that Sarbanes-Oxley 'does not encroach upon' the separation of powers. . .
A new study finds that cash incentive programs increase the number of students earning high ACT and SAT scores. . .
While the price of gas is higher than last year, 'gasoline is more affordable than it was during the early 1960s'. . .
For more than two decades, college tuition has risen at a faster rate than any other major product or service. Is college still worth the cost?
A controversial new open-ended scoring system for gymnastics rewards ‘innovation and the breaking of existing barriers’. . .
‘Africa is going to be the big success story of the next half-century,’ says one columnist. . .
Global securities markets cannot ignore Russian aggression forever. . .
Was Malthus’s gloomy prediction ‘wrong or merely postponed’?
Government can ‘fix’ healthcare—by ‘getting out of the way and letting markets and consumers decide what works’. . .
In a effort to boost female enrollment, more business schools are launching part-time ‘morning M.B.A.s’. . .
The '2008 money race' between Barack Obama and John McCain is ‘closer than you think’. . .
‘Medical tourism’ may lower prices in the U.S. and improve standards for care in poorer countries. . .
What does the 'artificial perfection' of the Olympic Games reveal about China?