THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Book Review: ‘The Map and the Territory,’ by Alan Greenspan Alan Greenspan argues that Wall Street didn’t predict the 2008 crisis because it paid scant attention to the insights of behavioral economics. Burton G. Malkiel Oct. 22, 2013 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Bubbles and crashes will always be characteristics of free-market […]
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) HUD’s Power Grab The Obama administration plots a wholesale federal intrusion into local housing policy Terry Eastland October 14, 2013, Vol. 19, No. 06 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Programs affecting neighborhoods must be “reoriented,” as Compton put it, in order to make them more integrated and also more livable—incubators
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April 28, 2013 Government as Entropy By Daniel Payne On May 15th, 1862, the thirty-seventh Congress passed into law the creation of the United States Department of Agriculture. Its purpose, as the law explained, was “to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general
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IBD Editorials Perspective Copying Democrats’ Identity Politics A Loser For GOP By PAUL SPERRY Posted 03/27/2013 05:14 PM ET Read More At Investor’s Business Daily: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-perspective/032713-649568-republican-makeover-looks-like-democrat-racial-politics.htm#ixzz2Oqs7j4N2 Follow us: @IBDinvestors on Twitter | InvestorsBusinessDaily on Facebook Republicans lost the election by failing to pin the Great Recession on Democratic housing policies mandating affirmative-action lending. They’ll lose
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES DECKER: 5 Questions with BB&T’s John Allison ‘It’s easier for government to control a few large institutions’ By Brett M. Decker– Brett M. Decker, former Editorial Page Editor for The Washington Times, was an editorial page writer and editor for the Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, Senior Vice President of
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Small Ball Why our fiscal debates amount to nothing Yuval Levin January 14, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 17 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: It is crucial to see that both of these approaches are basically defensive in nature: The left is trying to avoid a fundamental transformation of
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KUHNER: Bubba’s America Clinton’s endorsement befits Obama By Jeffrey T. Kuhner– The Washington Times Thursday, September 6, 2012 Former President Bill Clinton has emerged as a hero to many Americans, especially liberals. He has become a Democratic icon, a deeply beloved figure. This is why he was tapped to give the nomination speech for
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