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Diana Furchtgott-Roth

Diana Furchtgott-Roth is a contributing editor of RealClearMarkets and an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
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  • 'Sick Leave' Mandates We Can Ill Afford - November 19, 2009
    • "Never let a good crisis go to waste," said President Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanual. For Democrats, the H1N1 pandemic is as good a crisis as they come.Congress...
  • Health Reform and Job Destruction - November 12, 2009
    • WASHINGTON-As the Senate turns to passage of its version of health care "reform," members must consider how to avoid the misguided job-killing provisions of the House's...
  • The Public Option Opt-Out Is No Panacea - October 29, 2009
    • WASHINGTON-Pity poor Harry Reid. The Senate Majority Leader has been grappling with the challenge of combining the two Senate health care plans into one, legislation...
  • Higher Education and Economic Mobility - October 22, 2009
    • WASHINGTON--With the national unemployment rate at 9.8% and over 15 million Americans out of work, students about to leave high school are wondering if they will be able...
  • Health Reform Won't Benefit Women - October 15, 2009
    • WASHINGTON-The Senate's Health Committee holds a hearing today, Thursday, to spotlight the effect on women of pending "health reform" legislation. Some witnesses,...
  • The Baucus Bill: An October Trick - October 8, 2009
    • WASHINGTON--It's October, the month of trick or treat, and Congress is trying to come up with a trick. The Congressional Budget Office's estimate of Senate Finance...
  • Weekly Economic Report - Hudson Institute - October 5, 2009
  • Job Creation Bills Will Kill Them - October 1, 2009
    • WASHINGTON--Congressional Democratic leaders assert that several major pieces of pending legislation will create jobs. In fact, the bills are more likely to increase...
  • The Truth About Income Inequality - September 24, 2009
    • Ask almost any Democratic politician the most important economic facts about income distribution in America, and you are almost certain to hear the following three...
  • The True Cost of the Baucus Bill - September 18, 2009
    • The health care proposal released by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has received criticism from Republicans and Democrats alike. Only the Congressional...
  • Don't Buy Specter's EFCA "Compromise" - September 17, 2009
    • In Pittsburgh on Tuesday at the AFL-CIO convention, Senator Arlen Specter, the Pennsylvania Democrat who left the Republican Party last spring, produced a new version of...
  • Nothing New With Obama's Health Plan - September 10, 2009
    • Last night President Obama finally presented his own health care proposal to a joint session of Congress. Those who were hoping for something new were disappointed....
  • Union Bigs Get Best Deals - New York Daily News - September 7, 2009
  • How Safe Are Workers' Retirements? - Hudson Inst. - September 4, 2009
  • Don't Buy Unions' Labor Day Bluster - September 3, 2009
    • Next Monday, Labor Day, is the occasion for labor unions to celebrate the contributions their members have made to American prosperity. With union membership down to 8%...
  • Obama's Excessively Optimistic Deficit Projections - August 27, 2009
    • WASHINGTON-Much in America has changed since Woodstock, the pot-smoking outdoors pop concert that took place in New York State 40 years ago this month. The Soviet Union...
  • Uncle Sam Becomes Peeping Tom - National Review - August 20, 2009
    • Buried in the 1,017 pages of the House Democrats’ health-care bill is a little-noticed provision that for the first time could give the government access to the...
  • Obama's Health Care Bogeyman Is Obama - August 13, 2009
    • WASHINGTON--In a health-care town hall meeting in Portsmouth , New Hampshire this week , President Obama declared: "Because the way politics works sometimes is that...
  • The High Cost of Medical Malpractice - August 6, 2009
    • The next time you visit your doctor, scrutinize the bill carefully. What it won't tell you is that about ten cents of every dollar paid for health care goes to the...
  • The Healthcare Bankruptcy Myth - July 30, 2009
    • Few figures in American life have suffered as publicly as Elizabeth Edwards, a cancer survivor whose son was killed in a car accident, the betrayed wife of presidential...
  • 'Rich' Taxes Cripple Small Towns - July 23, 2009
    • VEVAY, Indiana -Here in the heartland of America, residents of Vevay (population 1,700) are united against tax increases that congressional Democrats have proposed to...
  • A Very Unhealthy Health Bill - July 16, 2009
    • WASHINGTON-The same week as the federal budget deficit exceeded $1 trillion for the first time, three committees of the House of Representatives are considering a...
  • Obama, Title IX, and Academics? - July 9, 2009
    • WASHINGTON--The White House has quietly shot down an attempt by two senior officials, one a confidante of the president himself, to expand so-called gender parity beyond...
  • It's Time to Go Nuclear - July 2, 2009
    • WASHINGTON--With the Senate committees poised to consider versions of the expensive climate-change bill narrowly approved by the House of Representatives, it's time for...
  • What Will Climate Bill Do to Your Job? - Reuters - June 27, 2009
  • Socialized Medicine Through the Eyes of a Recipient - June 25, 2009
    • WASHINGTON--President Obama's public health plan, if passed by Congress, would drive America inevitably towards a single-payer system in which all health-care payments...
  • Starting a Trade War With 'Buy America' - Reuters - June 19, 2009
  • A VAT Tax Is Not the Answer - June 18, 2009
    • Perhaps he was only practicing legislative diplomacy, but chairman Charles Rangel (D-NY) of the Ways & Means Committee, where tax bills originate, refused to rule out a...
  • High-Speed Rail: A Big-Ticket Item That Drives Deficits - June 11, 2009
    • One such big-ticket item is high-speed rail, an expensive form of transportation that will reach only small segments of the country and that will not substitute for...
  • We Face Major Healthcare Choices - June 4, 2009
    • But the Democratic president now sounds willing to limit, and perhaps repeal, the existing exclusion from income tax for employer-paid premiums. When his Republican...
  • Obama Should Ditch Deadly CAFE Standards - May 28, 2009
    • Never mind that the 35 MPG CAFE standard, calculated by the Transportation Department, corresponds roughly to a 26 MPG Environmental Protection Agency standard, the...
  • Obama's Upside-Down Energy Logic - May 21, 2009
    • Days after Mr. Obama’s inauguration, the new president declared, “It will be the policy of my administration to reverse our dependence on foreign oil while building...
  • The Hidden Agenda Behind Card Check - May 15, 2009
    • Under binding arbitration, if firms and newly-organized unions cannot agree on their first collective bargaining contract within 120 days, the Federal Mediation and...
  • The Minimum Wage and Its Employment Impact - May 14, 2009
    • So, this summer, some of the 68,000 residents of this United States territory will celebrate the higher minimum wage. Their ranks are unlikely to include people who now...
  • After Card Check, Don't Forget Binding Arbitration - May 7, 2009
    • This legislation, entitled the Employee Free Choice Act, has been in the news for allowing workers to choose to join unions by checking a card circulated and retained by...
  • The Folly of 'Equal Pay' Laws - April 30, 2009
    • According to Mrs. Maloney, “we have considerable work left to do before women earn equal pay for equal work.” Yet a GAO report, released at the hearing, found only a...
  • Job Loss By Millions, Tax Hikes By Billions - April 23, 2009
    • The 648-page bill, cosponsored by Mr. Markey and fellow Democrat Henry Waxman, Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has been the subject committee...
  • Choose Tax Cuts for Economic Recovery - April 16, 2009
    • It includes income tax hikes for upper-income Americans and increases in prices of energy-intensive products, increases to be paid by all consumers. Fair Warning: tax...
  • Unequal Protection Under the Law - April 9, 2009
    • One symptom of the breakdown of the law is the rise in gang violence. The U.S. Department of Justice estimates that the number of gang members reached 1 million last...
  • Charity Begins At Home - April 2, 2009
    • The revenue gained would fund universal health care, Mr. Obama proposed in his March budget. He would make the 28 percent cap on the tax saving for contributions take...