Better to Be Bearish
Is this the Romney-Ryan rally? Since Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan to be his running mate, the stock market has moved to highs not seen since George W. Bush was ...
Paul Krugman: The Prophet of Socialism
Editor’s Note: This article is excerpted from Donald Luskin’s new book, I Am John Galt.
Christiane Amanpour’s eyes darted back and forth in fear, and her mouth twisted in disgust, because ...
In Search of Certainty at the Fed
The Federal Reserve is increasingly becoming a costly source of uncertainty for an economy that already has more than enough to worry about. Things get worse every time the Fed ...
Weak Dollar, Oblivious Treasury?
Many conservative commentators have expressed concern over the recent sharp decline of the U.S. dollar on world currency markets. On the face, there is cause for alarm. When pit against ...
TARP Looking More Criminal by the Minute
Is TARP a criminal enterprise? When a CNBC producer called me on Wednesday to see if I’d debate that question on the Kudlow Report that evening, I thought the allegation ...
Krugman’s Posthumous Nobel
Prior to 2008 the Nobel Prize had never been awarded posthumously. So great minds such as John Maynard Keynes and Fischer Black never received the coveted award. But all that ...
Of Interventions and Conservative Principles
What’s a principled conservative to think of the Bush administration’s proposed $700 billion authority to allow the U.S. Treasury buy illiquid securities? On the one hand it would appear to ...
The Paulonomics Factor
Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul sounds radical when he advocates the elimination of the individual income tax, a return to a gold standard, the wholesale downsizing of the federal government, ...
What Your AARP Card Buys You
If you’re of a certain age, you probably carry in your wallet the little red-and-white card of the AARP — the association for older Americans. You pay twelve and a ...
Isolationist Ignorance in Action
The advocates of free trade have on their side over 200 years of settled science in economics, going all the way back to Adam Smith. The advocates of protectionism have ...