March 12, 2012 Archives

Week of March 12, 2012 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, March 12

How We Know That Welfare Reform Failed

Greg Kaufmann, The Nation

Why Doubling Our Renewables Use Is Not Impressive

Keith Hennessey

Black Youths Need Moms and Dads

Heather Mac Donald, New York Times

Romney Opts Out of Medicare, Most Can't

Jonathan Cohn, New Republic

Obama's Stimulus Gave Us Debt, Not Jobs

Ramesh Ponnuru, Bloomberg

Leave Carbon Regulation Up to the Feds

David Murray, New Atlantis

Businesswomen Spurn Bureaucratic Saviors

Richard Epstein, Hoover

Highways to Hell: Cities Worse Off With Them

Greg Hanscom, Grist

The Post Office Is Headed for a Bailout

Rick Geddes, Enterprise Blog

Here Are 13 Reasons Obama's a Success

Kevin Drum, Mother Jones

Get Used to the Recovery: It's Real

James Surowiecki, New Yorker

School Choice Means Safer Kids

Evan Walter, Heritage

Tuesday, March 13

Degrees Don't Go as Far for Women

Bryce Covert, The Nation

Why the Stress Tests Aren't Helping

The Editors, Bloomberg View

How Eliminating Regulations Could Fix Banking

P.E. Gobry, Atlantic

Say It Out Loud: Gas Prices Should Go Up

Howard Gleckman, TaxVox

How to Solve Old Folks' Problems: Vouchers

Lind & Damme, Democracy

The One Officeholder Who Actually Gets Gas Prices

David Roberts, Grist

De-Deregulate the Airlines

Phillip Longman & Lina Khan, Wash. Monthly

How Many Jobs Has Apple Created?

Joshua Wright, New Geography

I'm Not Leaving Goldman. Goldman Left Me

Greg Smith, NY Times

Unsung Housing Hero: Ed DeMarco

Mark Calabria, Cato @ Liberty

Just Get Rid of All Energy Subsidies

Phil Kerpen, National Journal

The Private Donors Running Our Schools

Abby Rapoport, TAP

Wednesday, March 14

Welcome to RealClearPolicy

The Editors, RealClearPolicy

A Terrible Week for Obamacare

Grace-Marie Turner, Forbes

Another Badly Frayed Spot in the Safety Net

LaDonna Pavetti, CBPP

Time for the CFPB to Go After Payday Lending

Hannah Emple, NAF

Three Huge Banking Problems That Remain

Chris Papagianis, Reuters

The Study That Proves Envy Caused the Crisis

R. Rajan, Project Syndicate

The Ultimate Inflation Test: 1963 Sears Catalog

Ed Dolan, Economonitor

Has Rural America Hijacked the GOP?

Joel Kotkin, New Geography

An Idea for QE3: Pay Off Students' Debts

Ben Mabie, New Deal 2.0

We're All Wrong About Ben Bernanke

Roger Lowenstein, Atlantic

Hypocrisy Makes Medicare Reform Impossible

Avik Roy, Forbes

This British Bank Regulator Actually Gets It

Justin Fox, HBR

Thursday, March 15

The New Crisis: Public Worker Health Care

Steven Greenhut, Bloomberg

The JOBS Act Would Be a Boon for Fraud

Travis Waldron, Think Progress

The App That Could Save the Government

Porter & Kendall, Democracy

What You Didn't Know About Immigrant Workers

A. Singer, Brookings

Trial Lawyers Are Coming After Your Pool

Walter Olson, Cato @ Liberty

The True Cost of Obamacare Comes Out

Philip Klein, Wash. Examiner

Reminder: People in China Are Poor

Robert Scott, Working Economics

No, the Cost of Obamacare Didn't Just Double

Jonathan Cohn, TNR

James Q. Wilson Made Indy Safer

Ryan Streeter, Indianapolis Star

Our Health Care System Wasn't Broken

Christopher Conover, AEI

First They Came for Cato, and I Said Nothing

Tevi Troy, WaPo

It's Not Bernanke's Fault. It's Ours

Ryan Avent, Free Exchange

Friday, March 16

Blame Education, Not Taxes, for Inequality

Scott Hodge, Tax Foundation

The Evolution of Top Marginal Tax Rates

Tim. Taylor, Conversable Econ

How North Carolina Replaced Manufacturing Jobs

Edward Alden, CFR

Santorum Offers Wrong Fix for Rural U.S.

Joel Kotkin, New Geography

Prices Are Going Up, Thanks to Obamacare

Sally Pipes, S.F. Chronicle

The GOP's Blueprint for Busting Unions

Nicole Pasulka, Mother Jones

Export-Import Bank: Great for Boeing, Not for Us

George Will, WaPo

Obamacare Supporters Forced into Concession

David Hogberg, IBD

Don't Thank Obama for Increased Oil Production

Keith Hennessey

Rhode Island's Medicaid Reform Is Phony

Jesse Cross-Call, CBPP

The GOP Plot Against Exports

Pat Garofalo, Think Progress

Housing Markets Still Aren't Improving

Jason Gold, PPI

Sunday, March 18

The Study That Dispels the Supply-Side Myth

Christina Romer, NYT

Koch vs. Cato: No There There

Skip Oliva, Under Penalty of Catapult

We're Headed Toward a January Fiscal Reckoning

Alan Blinder, WSJ

Why All the Immigration Scare Stories?

W.R. Mead, American Interest

Obama's Policies Mean Higher Gas Prices

William O'Keefe, Nat. Journal

JOBS Bill Is Dangerous Deregulation

Simon Johnson, Baseline Scenario

The False Promise of Hosting March Madness

Travis Waldron, CAP

Obama's 'Religious Accommodation' Fails

Grace-Marie Turner, NR

The Counterintuitive Case for Sprawl

John Muscat, The New City

Income Inequality Doesn't Always Cause Crises

The Economist

A Year After Wisconsin Union Reforms, No Jobs

Doug Hall, EPI

We Can't Punish Savers Forever

Gregory Mills, Urban Institute