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- The Dawn of a New Age In the United States - March 29, 2010
- Snatching victory from the jaws of defeat, after a tumultuous year of political theater, the Age of Obama has dawned. With legislative success however tarnished by...
- Will Systems Biology Survive Healthcare Reform? - March 8, 2010
- If you ever find yourself munching a sandwich at your desk and want to enliven your lunch break with a fascinating lecture about the future of medicine, tune in to a...
- Pin the Bogeyman On the Tea Party - February 22, 2010
- Have you watched with amusement as various political commentators have tried to demonize the amorphous Tea Party movement by outing behind-the-scenes bogeymen allegedly...
- Why Washington Can't Reform Healthcare - February 15, 2010
- It's not for lack of will. It's not for lack of power. It's not even for lack of money. Washington can never effectively "reform" healthcare for one simple reason. The...
- SEC to Force Politician Disclosure Risk - February 8, 2010
- This amazing story flashed briefly across the pages of the business press last week. If you blinked, you missed it. Initial news reports indicated that the SEC had taken...
- Can Common-Sense Economics Found a New Party? - January 25, 2010
- Now that the runaway train of one-party profligacy has flown off the tracks in Massachusetts, is there any chance We the People might seize this opportunity to...
- Go East Young Man. Far East - January 11, 2010
- One of the compensations for the scar tissue accumulated over three decades in the technology business is a chance to interact with young students and entrepreneurs...
- Avatar: A Revealing Cultural Mirror - January 4, 2010
- If you haven't seen Avatar, the 3D special effects extravaganza of the season, treat yourself to some fun. Never before have live actors and computer animation been so...
- The Perverse Economics of Climate Modeling - December 21, 2009
- As the dust continues swirling around emails purloined from the climate research unit at the University of East Anglia, global warming activists keep insisting that...
- The Hypocritical College Football Plantation - December 14, 2009
- Quick, can you name a business in which young men, disproportionately black, take weekly beatings working for no pay while their masters make millions off their backs? A...
- Hypocrisy Is the NCAA Football Plantation - RealClearMarkets - December 14, 2009
- Quick, can you name a business in which young men, disproportionately black, take weekly beatings working for no pay while their masters make millions off their...
- Watching Social Security Eat the Young Alive - December 7, 2009
- My 26 year old son got the most extraordinary letter from the Social Security Administration last week. In plain English it admitted that the system was a Ponzi scheme...
- Social Justice: Who Gives, Gets, Decides? - November 23, 2009
- Do you have friends and colleagues who invoke the principle of "Social Justice" to justify new entitlement programs like the trillion dollar health care bill? Do their...
- The Economics of Taxpayer Funded Abortion - November 16, 2009
- If you like the spectacle of irresistible forces crashing into immovable objects, you must love the game of chicken being played by pro and anti-abortion forces as each...
- How to Shake Off a H1N1 Pandemic - November 9, 2009
- In a practice run for The Big One, the H1N1 flu pandemic is working its way around the world disrupting schools, workplaces, and the economy. As public health officials...
- Junk Science Returns to the White House - November 2, 2009
- Regardless of your tribal affiliations, were you cautiously optimistic when our new president promised to "restore science to its rightful place" in the formulation of...
- Are You Ready to Subsidize Reporters? - October 26, 2009
- Have you ever stumbled on an oxymoron so stunning that it takes your breath away? Try coupling this with a case of chutzpah so revealing that the lack of shame on the...
- The Moral Basis for a National Transaction Tax - October 19, 2009
- Have you been tracking Congress's frantic search for the hundreds of billions of dollars in new tax revenues it needs to fund its spending orgy? The latest Willie-Sutton...
- The Multilateral Peace Path to War - October 12, 2009
- Last week the Wall Street Journal published an extraordinary editorial titled "How Israel was Disarmed." It decried a UN resolution calling for a nuclear free zone in...
- The Scary Permanence of Congressional Power - October 5, 2009
- Everyone no doubt remembers the proverbial recipe for boiling a frog. As our federal government confronts the catalogue of "crises" roiling the country, who is keeping...
- Uncle Sam Takes Over the VC Business - September 28, 2009
- Last week I had yet another lunch with yet another former venture capitalist from yet another imploding VC firm. Like a slow motion train wreck, the business of backing...
- Net Neutrality Is Another Equality Mandate - September 21, 2009
- The Federal Communications Commission(FCC) announced that it plans to force internet providers to treat all web traffic equally, neither favoring their own services over...
- Saving A Million Jobs at $787,000 Per Job - September 14, 2009
- The White House Council of Economic Advisers said Thursday the $787 billion stimulus plan kept one million people working who would otherwise not have had jobs. You...
- An Economic Dialogue Between Head and Heart - September 7, 2009
- with apologies to Thomas Jefferson My Dear Uncle Sam, Watching in dismay the bankruptcy of your ailing fisc, the debauchery of your expansive currency, the shame of your...
- Biofuels Are Dead. Long Live Biofuels! - August 31, 2009
- Are you concerned about the environment? Do you worry about our country's dependence on foreign oil? Welcome to the club. Do you believe in magic? Have you got a...
- What Is the Foundation Of Your Economic Beliefs? - August 24, 2009
- What is the moral foundation of your economic beliefs? Do economic beliefs even require a moral foundation? Do you find it natural to accept the varied religious beliefs...
- What's So Bad About Death Panels Anyway? - August 17, 2009
- As the public debate over pending healthcare legislation veers into the surreal with angry voters who have never read the bill shouting at cowering Congressmen who have...
- Congress's Business Model Makes Me Cry - August 10, 2009
- Have you ever examined the business model that drives Congressional action? Business models are collections of functions linked across disparate organizations forming a...
- Is Economic Equality Worth the Loss of Prosperity? - August 3, 2009
- As our nation remakes itself into a European social democracy, bidding farewell to American Exceptionalism, we hear constant calls for "sacrifice." Have you wondered...
- Translating ObamaCare Into Plain English - July 27, 2009
- Forget for a moment whether you believe healthcare is an inalienable right like freedom of speech or a service one purchases like auto repair. Do you prefer honestly...
- Clean Coal: An Unsustainable Political Myth - July 20, 2009
- "The laws of physics stop at the doors of Congress." Does this old chestnut, attributed to the late Representative Tom Moorehead, sound as fresh today as when it was...
- Church and State Link to Ban Capitalism - July 13, 2009
- In a moment of moral clarity rare in modern times, his holiness Pope Benedict XVI planted himself firmly athwart the tide of history, raised his hand, and loudly said to...
- California Prints Its Own Currency - A Satire? - July 6, 2009
- Following the lead of the Federal Government, California this week began issuing its own currency, which it plans to use to stave off bankruptcy. "As our state staggers...
- 2013: Cap 'N Trade Bill Clogs Congress - June 29, 2009
- June 29, 2013 - As the first six months of the second Obama administration draws to a close, dozens of competing bills are making their way through Congress seeking to...
- When the Old Bad Becomes the New Good - February 2, 2009
- What do you call it when investors are paid with cash taken in from other investors, rather than from investment returns? OK, now what do you call it when investors are...
- It's All In the Economic Family - January 26, 2009
- What is a "family," economically speaking, and who defines its boundaries of reciprocal entitlements and responsibilities?Is the family human nature’s building block,...
- Fueling Up the Next Bubble - December 1, 2008
- The market normally dispatches the grim reaper to punish foolish entrepreneurs and credulous investors on a slay-as-you-go basis, returning talent and salvageable assets...
- Soros Wants to Abrogate the Constitution - RealClearMarkets - November 3, 2008