Week of April 9, 2012 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, April 9
The Real Federal Debt: $50 Trillion
Timothy Taylor, Conversable Econ
Net Undocumented Mexican Immigration Hits Zero
Amanda Beadle, CAP
How Congress Will Evade 'Taxmageddon'
Joseph Minarik, Back in Black
It's the Recession That Was Bad, Not the Recovery
Heidi Shierholz, EPI
It's Good to Be Warren Buffett's Neighbor
Susanne Trimbath, New Geo.
What to Do About High-Cost Hospitals
Arpit Gupta, National Review
Lassez-Faire Is Not Social Darwinism
Richard Epstein, Defining Ideas
2012 Will Be the Year of the Urban Fiscal Crisis
Daniel DiSalvo, PSI
Controversial Beliefs All Economists Share
Adam Ozimek, Atlantic
Here's the Tea Party's Obamacare Replacement
Avik Roy, Forbes
How Many Tax Loopholes Are There?
Donald Marron, Musings
The Textbook Bubble Is Bursting
Mark Perry, Carpe Diem
Tuesday, April 10
The Reason Obamacare's a Fiscal Bomb
Charles Blahous, e21
Obamacare's Fiscal Critics Wrong Again
Paul Van de Water, CBPP
The Buffett Rule Is Just the Beginning for Obama
J. Pethokoukis, AEI
Why Taxes Have to Go Up - Way Up
D. Callahan & R. Hiltonsmith, TAP
Obama Betrays the 99 Percent with JOBS Act
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Wait a Second, We Are the 99.9999%
Scott Winship, RealClearMarkets
Start Worrying About Consumption Inequality
K. Drum, Mother Jones
A Key Regulator Mulls Mortgage Writedowns
George Zornick, Nation
An Ultra-Simple Fix to Our Tax Woes
Bruce Bartlett, New York Times
Get Rid of the Fed's Dual Mandate
Clive Crook, Bloomberg View
Are Our Views Determined From Birth?
Jonathan Haidt, Reason
Bankruptcy Is Too Expensive
Jialan Wang, VoxEU
Wednesday, April 11
Bad News About the Declining Teen Birth Rate
Rachel Sheffield, Heritage
Why I Don't Care About the Buffett Rule
Derek Thompson, The Atlantic
Why Food Stamps Work Better than Medicaid
J. Goodman, Health Policy
How UC Davis Students Advertise Actual Skills
Kevin Carey, Edu. Sector
It's a Good Time to Be a Big Business
Tim Carney, Washington Examiner
Yes, Obamacare Expands the Deficit
Charles Blahous, The Apothecary
Growth in Inequality Worse Under Obama than Bush
Matt Stoller, NC
About Romney's "War on Women" Claim
Jared Bernstein, On the Econ.
Why We Will Never Get Rid of the One-Cent Coin
Dan Mitchell, CNN
Our Overcrowded Juvenile Corrections Facilities
Pete Brook, Wired
Rob Portman: Working Class Wonk
Robert Costa, National Review
Reminder: Illinois Is a Fiscal Disaster
Josh Barro, Bloomberg View
Thursday, April 12
GOP Settled on Repeal, But Still Not Replace
Joseph Lawler, RCPolicy
The Excuses of Education Reformers
Rick Hess & W. Downs, Atlantic
Why Bankers Hate Rep. Maxine Waters
Matt Stoller, Naked Capitalism
The Top 10 Companies That Pay No Taxes
Gavin Aronsen, Mother Jones
Why Libertarian Paternalism Fails
Raghuram Rajan, Project Syndicate
One Republican Alternative to Obamacare
Uwe Reinhardt, NY Times
Defining 'Food Deserts' Down
Ethan Epstein, Washington Examiner
Which Age Groups Earn the Minimum Wage?
Political Calculations
Guess Whose Taxes Paul Ryan Would Raise?
Chuck Marr, CBPP
Obama Has No Coherent Answer to Paul Ryan
Ryan Streeter
Keep Failing Students Back
Marcus Winters, USA Today
Krugman's Terrible Track Record
John Lott, FOX News
Friday, April 13
A Look at the Life of James Q. Wilson
James Piereson, The New Criterion
Left & Right Agree: The Buffett Rule's Dumb
Howard Gleckman, TaxVox
Pres. Obama Isn't Motivating Educators
Paul Peterson, EducationNext
Here's Why the Middle Class Is Doing OK
Matthew Weinschenk, WSD
How Much Do Higher Tax Rates Reduce Income?
Timothy Taylor, CE
Should the U.S. Legalize Hard Drugs?
George Will, Washington Post
Some Bad News for State Finances
Steve Malanga, Public Sector Inc.
Corporate Taxes: Lower Rates, Raise Revenues
Jack Temple, TAP
Gov. Brewer's Odd School Choice Veto
Adam Emerson, Fordham
Obama's Recovery Is Just as Good as Bush's
Arin Karimian, EPI
Obamacare's Defenders Abuse the Term 'Insurance'
E21
Why You Can't Get a Taxi
Megan McArdle, The Atlantic
Sunday, April 15
Using the Four Horsemen to Cut the Deficit
Gary Shapiro, RealClearPolicy
U.S. Taxes Are Getting Less Progressive
Greenstone & Looney, Brookings
Get Ready for Free Trade in Medical Care
James Surowiecki, New Yorker
The Secretive Group Behind Pro-Business Bills
B. Greeley, BusinessWeek
Pres. Romney Would Be Tough on Moms
Jonathan Cohn, New Republic
Time for the NRA to Declare Victory and Move On
Editors, Bloomberg
There's No Secret Behind Gas Prices
Mark Perry, Washington Examiner
This Congress Is Too Gridlocked to Name Post Offices
Anne Kim, PPI
Why School Vouchers Are Controversial
Chester Finn, Education Next
Lessons From Poor Countries' Health Care
V. Govindarajan, HBR
'Redistribution' Goes Both Ways
Dean Baker, Beat the Press
Save a Life: Cut Taxes
Christopher Conover, AEI
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