Opinion
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The Adverse Effects of Monetary Stimulation
Opinion -A number of people have asked me to expand on how the rapid expansion of money supply leads to an effect the opposite of that intended: a fall in economic activity. -
A Message for Susan: Dynamic Markets Make Predictions Hazardous
Opinion -I was thinking of Susan and her book again this weekend. Yep, that would be Professor Susan Crawford of Benjamin Cardozo School of Law and her book Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age. -
Advocates Discuss How to Stop Charters from Cannibalizing Private Schools
Opinion -Charter and private school advocates met recently to discuss research and anecdotal evidence on whether charter schools reduce school choice by siphoning off private school students. -
Companies Can’t Lose, but Can Illinois Taxpayers Win With Incentives?
Opinion -Illinois lawmakers are determined to lower the state’s 9.2 percent unemployment rate, even it that means paying big companies to do business there. -
Is It Morally Evil to Question Climate Alarmism?
Opinion -Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, citing her 10 years in which she was president of the Chicago Theological Seminary, wrote a bizarre article in Tuesday’s Washington Post claiming Typhoon Haiyan was “evil” and the typhoon was caused by the “moral evil” of -
Moody’s Warns of Bankruptcy in Scranton, Pennsylvania
Opinion -Scranton, Pennsylvania could be headed toward another fiscal crisis like the one that resulted in city workers having their pay cut to minimum wage in 2012, according to a major credit ratings agency. -
What Really Triggers a Resource Crisis?
Opinion -During a symposium held recently at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, Yale historian Tim Snyder told the attendees: “Climate change acts as a “multiplier of other resource crises leading to “the ecological panic that I’m afraid will lead to mass killings -
Driving Alone Increases Its Domination of Commuting
Opinion -New data from the American Community Survey make it possible to review the trend in mode of access to employment in the United States over the past five years. 2012 represents the fifth annual installment of complete American Community Survey data. -
Climate Realists Address Huge Polish Independence Day Rally
Opinion -Climate realists addressed more than 50,000 people turning out for a Polish Independence Day rally in Warsaw yesterday, reminding people that United Nations programs to restrict energy options in the name of fighting global warming impoverish people and -
$15 An Hour Minimum Wage at Seattle-Tacoma Squeaks to Victory
Opinion -It took three weeks of ballot counting before the people of SeaTac, Wash., learned voters there had approved a new minimum wage of $15 an hour. SeaTac Proposition 1 received 3,040 votes in favor versus 2,963 against to win by a 77-vote margin. -
Pullman National Park? You’ve Gotta be Kidding
Opinion -But apparently you're not. Crain's recently published“Pullman inching closer to national park status,” an article detailing plans by Illinois Sens. Dick Durbin and Mark Kirk and Rep. -
A Message for Susan: Dynamic Markets Make Predictions Hazardous
Opinion -I was thinking of Susan and her book again this weekend. Yep, that would be Professor Susan Crawford of Benjamin Cardozo School of Law and her book Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age. -
America’s New Energy Abundance Can Revive Our Economy
Opinion -Review of Comeback: America’s New Economic Boom, by Charles R. -
California Pensions for Teachers Fall Farther Behind
Opinion -Saddled with a massive debt on what is needed to meet its pension obligations the California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) added more than $4.0 billion to that debt in 2012 because it chose to underfund its so-called “catch-up” payment. -
Energy Freedom Made Simple
Opinion -Review of Energy Freedom, by Marita Littauer Noon (Intermedia Publishing Group 2011), 177 pages, ISBN- 978-1937654054If you are looking for a book that will fully explain why affordable, reliable energy is absolutely crucial to our social and economic -
Heartland Experts Reject Obama’s Climate Action At Chicago EPA Hearing
Opinion -Why the concern over President Obama's Executive Orders? It is human nature that desensitization will creep in as related to frequency, making felt outrage over each successive mandate seem less intense or serious. -
Lawsuit Attacks Oklahoma Special-Needs Scholarships
Opinion -OKLAHOMA CITY — A lawsuit filed in Oklahoma County District Court seeks to have a special-needs scholarship program declared unconstitutional. The case, Oliver et al. vs. -
California Public Utilities Commission Reports High Costs for ‘Net Metering’
Opinion -An initiative to stimulate rooftop solar power in California is raising electricity bills throughout the state, according to a report from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). -
Obamacare Yet Again Shows: More Government Means a Worse Private Sector
Opinion -The lies about ObamaCare from the Administration and the Democrats are now being revealed in a fast and furious fashion. The most famous of course is: “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan. -
Obamacare Needs a Solution Beyond “Sorry”
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #396Presidential apologies are a rare thing, but last week brought us an apology for the failed rollout of Obama’s signature policy. -
I Wish Elizabeth Warren Was The Democratic Party’s Future, But She Isn’t
Opinion -Noam Scheiber’s big piece on Elizabeth Warren is out at TNR, and he starts with the frame of a party divided between her natural political backers and Hillary Clinton’s machine. -
24 Hours of Reality Forgot About People: Climate Change Efforts Should Focus on Adaptation
Opinion -Every year since the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change came into force in 1994, the UN has held massive international conferences of representatives from countries that are Parties to the Convention. -
Florida Special-Needs School Opens, Thanks to Vouchers
Opinion -A new school for special-needs children opened its doors last month in Sarasota, Florida, in part thanks to vouchers. The Selby School is a private kindergarten and high school for students with disabilities. -
Report: ObamaCare Discourages Marriage
Opinion -Should you get married? The Affordable Care Act says no, according to a new study from the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA).
