Nicole Gelinas and E.J. McMahon, New York Post

Privatize Ground Zero - 2/08/12

The governors of New York and New Jersey should let real estate firms bear the risk of reconstruction and leasing the new towers, which are currently draining taxpayer monies.

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Avik Roy, Forbes

Conservatives and the Health Mandate - 2/08/12

The individual mandate’s provenance is more complicated than most people think.

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Arnold Kling, Wall Street Journal Europe

Who Creates Sustainable Jobs? - 2/06/12

I believe that the process of creating employment is explained not by the theories of Keynes, but rather by the theories of Adam Smith and David Ricardo. From the perspective of Smith and Ricardo, real jobs emerge in the context of patterns of sustainable specialization and trade.

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Naomi Schaefer Riley, Wall Street Journal

The University of Adam Smith - 2/06/12

In the scramble for money and prestige, colleges lose their focus on education. A business executive thinks he has a solution.

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Aaron Kuriloff and Darrell Preston, Bloomberg Markets

Super Bowl Tackles Taxpayers - 2/02/12

While Super Bowl fans are riding zip lines through downtown Indianapolis this week in the runup to the NFL's championship game, taxpayers are digging deeper in their pockets to pay for the stadium where the game will be played.

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Shikha Dalmia, Reason

Flawed Case for Insourcing - 2/02/12

Foreign-owned companies employ close to 5.5 million Americans and generate about $3.1 trillion in economic value. Does Obama want their CEOs to fold their businesses up and return home to do their patriotic duty?

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Campbell Harvey, TheStreet

Europe's Biggest Loser - 2/02/12

A massive amount of private savings in Germany is effectively "invested" in the ECB. We all know that the ECB's risk has mushroomed. The balance sheet has expanded to 22% of eurozone GDP; they have increased duration; they have lowered the quality of collateral; and they hold, by my estimates, three-quarters of a trillion euros of peripheral exposure. It is close to 1 trillion euros if we include the near-peripheral... More

Jason Zweig, Wall Street Journal

Pension Puffery - 1/30/12

If you were a better stock picker than Warren Buffett, would you be punching the clock every day as the faceless manager of a corporate pension plan?

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Diana Furchgott-Roth, Washington Examiner

Obama On Oil - 1/29/12

Has the President had a change of heart on oil exploration?

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Robert Bryce, City Journal

Get Dense - 1/29/12

It’s time to stop wasting land and resources in the name of environmentalism.

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