March 19, 2012 Archives

Week of March 19, 2012 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, March 19

Introducing the New Republican Budget

Paul Ryan, Wall Street Journal

Why Has Food Stamp Use Exploded?

T. Taylor, Conversable Economist

Paul Ryan Would Cut Food Stamps, and Jobs

Travis Waldron, CAP

Facts Don't Slow Down Fracking Opponents

Kevin Williamson, NR

Either Way, the Individual Mandate Is Doomed

Jed Graham, IBD

Court Has No Precedent for Health Care Case

Adam White, TWS

Oppressive Land Use Regulations

Richard Epstein, Defining Ideas

The GOP Has Flip-Flopped Away From Fiscal Sanity

Don Taylor

About That Mortgage Settlement...

Cora Currier, ProPublica

Capital Gains Rate Hike? No Problem

Len Burman, TaxVox

The Feds Choke Off Energy Production

Rob Bluey, Heritage

President Obama's Promised Deficits

Keith Hennessey

Tuesday, March 20

New Jersey Is Proof the Mandate Is Essential

Jonathan Cohn, KHN

Affirmative Action Harms Diversity

Edward Blum, Austin Statesman

Iran Threatens the Global Economy

Nouriel Roubini, Project Syndicate

Is the GOP Really Prepared to Vote on Medicare?

Ross Douthat, NYT

Atlanta Won't Be the Last Town to Dry Up

Peter Orszag, Bloomberg

Enough Paul Ryan, Time for Ways and Means

Don Taylor, FreeforAll

Will President Obama Match Paul Ryan's Budget?

Keith Hennessey

In Praise of Paul Ryan's Vagueness

Reihan Salam, National Review

Gas Prices Too High? Blame Lack of Alternatives

Josh Freed, NJ

Tear Out Inequality by the Roots

David Grusky, Boston Review

Romney's Blatant Gas Price Pander

Ben Adler, The Nation

In Defense of the GOP Budget

Isabel Sawhill, Brookings

Wednesday, March 21

Will Health Care Costs Defeat Paul Ryan?

Joseph Lawler, RealClearPolicy

Paul Krugman's Health Care Falsehood

Christopher Conover, Enterprise

Break Up the College Cartel

Vince Fried & Reihan Salam, National Review

Look to the Supply Side for Recovery

John Cochrane, Grumpy Economist

The Mandate Is Bad Law and Bad Economics

Holtz-Eakin & Smith, WSJ

House Budget Relies on Massive Safety Net Cuts

James Horney, CBPP

California High Speed Rail: The Biggest Boondoggle

Chris Reed, CJ

Why I Worked With Paul Ryan on Medicare

Sen. Ron Wyden, HuffPo

Simple Fix to Inequality: Tax the Rich

Piketty & Saez, Boston Review

How to Fix the Winner-Takes-All Economy

Wehner & Beschel, e21

What's Good for Apple Isn't Good for the U.S.

Josh Bivens, EPI

The Tantalizing Promise of CO2 Capture

The Economist

Thursday, March 22

The One Man Blocking the Recovery

Katrina vanden Heuvel, WaPo

Here's How to Replace Obamacare

Capretta & Moffett, National Affairs

How Obamacare's Architect Got It Badly Wrong

Avik Roy, Apothecary

Bernanke's Huge Monetary History Mistake

George Selgin, Free Banking

The Counterintuitive Solution to Inequality

Neal McCluskey, Boston Rev.

Student Debt Crosses a Scary Threshold

Jordan Weissmann, Atlantic

All About the Obamacare Case

Philip Klein & Conn Carroll, Examiner

Paul Ryan Proves Need for Tax Hikes

Howard Gleckman, TaxVox

Don't Let College Slip Out of Reach

Jared Polis, National Journal

The Fatal Flaw in the Health Care Law

David Frum, Daily Beast

The Man Experts Say Will Save Obamacare

Ian Millhiser, CAP

Republicans Are Altering the Deal

Richard Kogan, CBPP

Friday, March 23

The Bad Housing News No One Wants to Hear

Anthony Randazzo, Reason

The Report That Says New Jersey Isn't Corrupt

Jonathan Weil, Bloomberg

'Dignity' for Poor Nowhere in GOP Budget

Greg Kaufmann, The Nation

Uncle Sam Gets Stuck With the Defense Tab

Chris Preble, Downsizing

Don't Condescend to Parents Over Schools

RiShawn Biddle, NY Times

How to Get Americans to Save for Retirement

A.C.S., The Economist

A Very Unhappy Birthday to Obamacare

Yuval Levin, National Review

Liberals' Secret Fear About Obamacare Case

Philip Klein, Examiner

Republicans Against Budget Cuts

Noah Kristula-Green, Daily Beast

Income Tax Cuts Mean Property Tax Hikes

Erica Williams, CBPP

Is It Right to Lock Up a 14 Year-Old Forever?

Garrett Epps, TAP

Don't Call It a Recovery

Mohamed El-Erian, Project Syndicate

Sunday, March 25

Without Obamacare, GOP Lacks Plan for Uninsured

R. Brownstein, NJ

Republicans Draw a Contrast with Obama

Yuval Levin, Weekly Standard

Good News for Fans of Tax Cuts for the Rich

Howard Gleckman, TaxVox

Obamacare Case Hearkens Back to New Deal Era

Editors, New York Sun

The Most Surprising Legal Challenge to Obamacare

Robert Kuttner, TAP

The One Man Stopping Another Bailout

Gretchen Morgenson, NY Times

How Republicans Would Raise Seniors' Premiums

Topher Spiro, CAP

How to Prevent Cartelization of the Web

Timothy Lee, National Affairs

The Bike Lane That Will Cost $400 Million

Felix Salmon, Reuters

Fannie and Freddie Plan Is Just TARP 2.0

Staff, Economics21

Constitutional Adventurism

Richard Epstein, Defining Ideas

Obamacare Fails Its Easiest Test

Alyene Senger, Heritage