Business

Jeff Poor | January 19, 2009

File this one under the “I can’t believe he just said that on television."

Controversial filmmaker Spike Lee revealed he thought the economic difficulties that are presently plaguing the country were ordained by God to help get Barack…

Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D. | January 19, 2009

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Dear Editor:

Re: James Q. Wilson's review of Robert Kaiser's "So Damn Much Money" ("Is Washington for Sale?" Jan. 18): Why are people…

Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D. | January 19, 2009

Editor, The New York Times

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To the Editor:

You suggest that it might have been "a coincidence" that U.S. Airways' stock price shot up by 13 percent immediately after Cap't.…

Jeff Poor | January 17, 2009

The controversy over Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ health could have legal implications for the company’s board of directors including former Vice President Al Gore.

On Jan. 14, Jobs, in a statement released through Apple’s press division,…

Jeff Poor | January 16, 2009

Here’s an environmental impact story you’re not likely to see in the mainstream media. Neither NBC’s chief environmental affair correspondent Anne Thompson, nor ABC correspondent Bill Blakemore nor CBS “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley –…

Jeff Poor | January 15, 2009

He’s reviled by the left for carrying the water in the U.S. Senate for those who are skeptical of manmade global warming – and that may have been enough to put him over the top for MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann’s “Worst Person in the World” award.…

Jeff Poor | January 15, 2009

If you’re fortunate enough to have it – don’t sell that oceanfront property for fear that the icecaps will melt, and rising seas swamping your property. A segment on CNN’s Jan. 13 “Lou Dobbs Tonight” explored the possibility that earth isn’t…

Julia A. Seymour | January 14, 2009

A new, New Deal may very well be on its way, but one of FDR’s own New Deal creations, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), is in big trouble.

Federally-owned TVA, the nation’s largest utility, recently made headlines for spilling more than…

BMI Staff | January 14, 2009
Tennessee Sludge Spill: Government Disaster 30 Times Worse than Exxon-Valdez The nations largest utility, TVA, is responsible for spilling roughly a billion gallons of toxic…
Dan Gainor | January 14, 2009

 A few years ago, the Securities and Exchange Commission looked at Bernie Madoff’s operation and said it was doing things just fine. Madoff then allegedly went on to scam $50 billion from unknowing investors. Congress instituted the Alternative…

Jeff Poor | January 14, 2009

Call this a case of liberalism via central planning gone wild.

 

In one of the most politically left-of-center cities east of Berkeley, Calif., ideas put forth at city hall in Madison, Wis. would dramatically limit free…

Dan Kennedy | January 14, 2009

In December alone, 640,000 jobs reportedly disappeared. This number only slightly inflated by all the elves laid off at North Pole Enterprises on the 26th. There’s a secret reason for these losses, never mentioned in the media.

When I…

Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D. | January 14, 2009

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To the Editor:

Reporting on the recent fall in America's trade deficit, you quote Barclay's Capital economist Julia Coronado's claim that "It's…

Jeff Poor | January 13, 2009

Change we can all believe in? How about the same song and dance, but just a different day?

In opening remarks at her confirmation hearing on Jan. 13, President-elect Barack Obama’s Secretary of State designate Hillary Clinton told the…

Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D. | January 13, 2009

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To the Editor:

Bob Herbert endorses a tax on financial transactions because, in his view, that's where the money is ("Where the Money Is," Jan. 12…

Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D. | January 13, 2009

Editor, The New York Times

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To the Editor:

Bob Herbert endorses a tax on financial transactions ("Where the Money Is," Jan. 12). Specifically, he wants a very small tax ("say…

Lauren O'Reilly | January 12, 2009

In 1981, Ronald Reagan announced in his first inaugural address “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”

President-elect Barack Obama announced just the opposite on Jan. 8.…

Dan Gainor | January 12, 2009

Economists have been worried that all the bailout spending might lead to inflation. That hasn’t happened yet, but President-Elect Obama’s job predictions have increased 64 percent in a few short weeks.

The media have been reluctant to…

Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D. | January 12, 2009

Editor, The Washington Times

Dear Editor:

Joseph P. Carrigan is understandably disturbed that President-elect Obama predicts doom if a new "stimulus" plan isn't enacted (Letters, January 11). Alas, Mr. Obama is simply following…

Tom Blumer | January 9, 2009
Nobel laureate on arcane trade matters, former Enron adviser, and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is at it again.

In his latest Times column ("The Obama Gap"), he chides President-elect Barack Obama for not being ambitious enough in his…