By Scott Shane
There’s a politically correct explanation and a politically incorrect one. Only one of them is right.
Democrats are calling for a nationwide end to mortgage foreclosures. It’s hard to imagine a more shortsighted policy ...
The weekend’s newspapers were full of stories about Democrats—including the embattled Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) and Deputy Majority Whip Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz ...
For many in Latin America, the Chávez model is the greatest threat to economic and political liberalism since the armed ...
GUATEMALA CITY— One word is repeated to me by all the Guatemalan businessmen I'm meeting while here: Chávez. The Venezuelan strongman is the bete noire of Guatemala's economic leaders. What Hugo Chávez ...
Relying on a World Trade Organization filing to address China’s undervalued currency won’t get very far.
Last week the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill to allow new tariffs on Chinese goods. Those tariffs are meant to offset the “subsidy” provided by China’s ...
How the IMF increasingly exposes the global taxpayer to major sovereign debt risk.
A dangerous idea is making the rounds in Washington. It is International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn's proposal to increase the IMF's war chest by US$250 billion. If ...
Let’s compare the size of the tax cuts to the total amount of spending over the next ten years and see how ...
Here is President Obama, talking on September 29 in Richmond, Virginia: "Now, I'm not a math teacher. But I know a little bit about math. They're proposing about $4 trillion worth of tax cuts. ...
President Obama has a delicate balancing act to manage in the upcoming General Motors initial public stock offering.
Word recently leaked that China’s Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC or Shanghai Motors) was considering taking a stake in General Motors when it has an initial public stock ...
With more and more medicines or their ingredients sourced from foreign countries, informed patients should be concerned ...
Do you trust the medicines you buy? Until recently, few in America or Europe even thought about it, but several fatal incidents caused by bad drugs have changed many minds. A recent Pew poll shows ...
Since President Obama’s Cairo speech, his administration has been disturbingly quiet in word and deed about the Egyptian ...
For generations, America has been the world’s shining city on the hill for freedom and human rights. We have provided light, encouragement, and support for voiceless victims of human rights ...
The most worrisome element of the Dodd-Frank bill involves not what is in it, but what was intentionally left out ...
The 2,319-page Dodd-Frank Financial Regulatory Reform Bill touches almost every corner of the economy and creates massive new bureaucracies. The table of contents alone spans 15 pages. But the most ...
This year’s Republican success will likely prove to be no more permanent than the 2006–2008 Democratic successes were.
In my analyses of American politics since the 2006 elections, I have been making a distinction between periods of trench warfare politics and periods of open field politics. Periods of trench warfare ...
