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Who Will Watch The Watchmen?
Every time a terrorist tries to blow something up, newscasters and pundits across America holler about the failure to "connect the dots." But what happens when there are so many dots, no one knows...
View ArticleObama Embraces Nixonomics
Barack Obama has often modeled his policies on Franklin Roosevelt. Lately, though, he's been coming across more as Richard Nixon Lite.In 1971, fed up with the steady rise of wages and prices, Nixon had...
View ArticleWhose Body Is It?
People suffer and die because the government "protects" us. It should protect us less and respect our liberty more.The most basic questions are: Who owns you, and who should control what you put into...
View ArticleDetroit Public Schools To Privatize Bus Services
The Detroit News weighs in on the plans to privatize school bus services in that city (emphasis mine):The state-appointed emergency financial manager of the Detroit Public Schools will cut the cost by...
View ArticleParis to Rebuild Zoo through $181 Million Public-Private Partnership
The Los Angeles Times reports that Paris, France is entering a $181 million public-private partnership to rebuildâ??really, rescueâ??the city's zoo:Closed since 2008, and its animals mostly shipped...
View ArticleA Bipartisan Solution to ObamaCare
Forbes President Obama's televised health care summit has put Republicans in a tough spot. They can't accept any part of his latest trillion-dollar, Big Government overhaul, but if they reject it as a...
View ArticleChicago's Use of Asset Lease Proceeds: A Clarification
I was surprised to see myself quoted in a Medill Reports article today entitled, "Chicago is blowing its future on current spending, analysts say." It seems that there must have been some...
View ArticleNY Transit Should Consider Market Pricing for Fares
The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority is facing an $800 million gap as subsidies dry up from state and local governments and the recession dampens demand. To the fill the gap, the MTA is...
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Households Have Some Ground to Cover
Texas State economics professor David Beckworth has some disturbing information for households published on his blog yesterday:there has been some meaningful repair to banking system's balance sheet...
View ArticleWill We Have a LUV Recovery?
At the recent World Economic Forum policy-makers discussed what kind of recovery the global economy will be looking at. Some suggested the acronym LUV would be a good description: A conventional V...
View ArticleKill the Endowments
With the federal deficit touching an eye-popping $1.56 trillion dollars -- or 10.6% of the GDP -- one would have thought that President Obama would go into full gear to cut every bit of non-essential,...
View ArticleGetting the 14th Amendment Right
When the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on March 2, 2010 in the landmark gun rights case McDonald v. Chicago, the Second Amendment won’t be the only thing on the justices’ minds. That’s because...
View ArticleDressed for Success
When Steve Jobs appeared onstage at a press conference last month to unveil the iPad, he was wearing the exact same sartorial interface he’s been wearing for at least 15 years now: Levis 501s sans...
View ArticleAmtrak Line Earns Profit...NOT
It's always good news when an Amtrak intercity rail line makes money. That means taxpayers and other non-users don't have to pay for a service provided to a very narrow and usually higher income...
View ArticleNew Orleans Schools Creative Destruction
John O'Leary takes an insightful look at how the mess Katrina left behind became the best thing to happen to NOL schools in a long time. The outrage is that it took the natural disaster of Katrina to...
View ArticleWill Gun Rights Get a Big Boost?
The Supreme Court is poised to make the next big decision on gun rights. Damon Root breaks it down and some broader implications for economic liberty.In sum, the 14th Amendment was designed to protect...
View ArticleThe Myth of the Skyscraper and the End of an Era
National Public Radio recently noted the closing of a 52 floor office tower in downtown Dallas, and took this symbolic act to muse on the future of downtowns. More specifically, is the era of the...
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The Myth of the Recovery
Reason The economic headlines sure look better than they did a year ago. Gross domestic product (GDP) is finally growing again, rising by 2.2 percent in the third quarter of 2009, with an early...
View ArticleMore Numbers Support Fauxcovery Thesis
More numbers came out last week that support the thesis that the GDP growth at the end of 2009 is really a fauxcovery that won't be sustainable or a solid foundation to build on.Sales of existing homes...
View ArticleSafe Toyotas, and Other Surprises
Last week, facing a congressional committee acutely dissatisfied with his company's safety record, the head of Toyota, Akio Toyoda, was asked what he would tell President Barack Obama if he had the...
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