October 15, 2012 Archives

Week of October 15, 2012 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, October 15

Texas Tries to Make College Cheap

Thomas Lindsay, RealClearPolicy

Cost-Benefit is Wrong Way to Look At Climate Change

D. Roberts, Grist

Education Must Improve to Close Job Skills Gap

L. Tyson, Proj. Syndicate

Urban Americans Not Getting the Help They Need

I. Novick, Policy Shop

Biden Fibbed: Green Cronyism Is Alive & Well

D. Furchtgott-Roth, RCM

Obama is Creating More "Too Big to Fail" Institutions

P. Wallison, AEI

Auto Bailout More Good Luck Than Good Policy

H. Bader, Open Market

Better Projects for Poor Neighborhoods

Kingsley & Franks, MetroTrends

About Romney Raising Medicare Premiums

J. Lawler, RealClearPolicy

High Unemployment Hurts the Employed, Too

Jared Bernstein

Green Energy vs. the Little Guy

Charles Lane, Washington Post

Why Has Medicare Spending Continued to Rise?

Economist

Tuesday, October 16

Obama's Very Good Night

Jonathan Cohn, The New Republic

Romney Lost. So Did America

Josh Barro, Bloomberg View

Both Candidates Peddle Bad Ideas

Matthew Yglesias, Slate

Romney Pushes His Plan

Yuval Levin, National Review

Romney's Plans, Obama's Record

Joseph Lawler, RealClearPolicy

Obama's Missing Ingredient: Jobs

Eduardo Porter, New York Times

The White House Is Already Full of Lobbyists

Tim Carney, Examiner

The Recession Was Hardest on the Poor

Matthew O'Brien, The Atlantic

Social Security's War On Working Wives

Sita Nataraj Slavov, RCMarkets

Students Misled About Financial Aid Fall Into Debt

M. Wang, ProPublica

Comparing the Candidates on Matters of Science

Scientific American

The Better Solution for Pre-Existing Conditions

John Goodman, WSJ

How Should We Look Back on the Bush Deficits?

R.A., Free Exchange

Slower Health Care Cost Growth Is Helping

Peter Orszag, Bloomberg

Please Talk About the Climate, Mr. President

Sarah Laskow, TAP

The Future of Catholic Education

Sean Kennedy, City Journal

Why Private Medicare Plans Don't Save Money

Economix

Wednesday, October 17

Can Obama Win Without an Agenda?

Ed Morrissey, Fiscal Times

Charts Showing That Consumerism is Rallying

Joe Weisenthal, BI

The World Must Embrace GMOs

Alex Berezow, Wall Street Journal

Manufacturing Is Never Coming Back

Jacob Goldstein, Planet Money

Want to Fix K-12? Forget Charters & Vouchers

C. Bolick, Defining Ideas

Did QE3 Fix the Housing Market?

Michael Derby, Real Time Economics

Media Misrepresents Arizona's Immigration Laws

Kevin Mooney, TAS

Public Land, Private Donors, Great Parks

Evan Sparks, Philanthropy

Even With Sequestration, Pentagon Will Be Fine

Gordon Adams, FP

Obama's Budget Math Doesn't Add Up

Peter Suderman, Reason

Great Britain Is Beating Us at Job Creation

Stephen Bronars

The Fed's Mission Creep

George Will, Washington Post

Thursday, October 18

Obama's Nation of Singles

Joel Kotkin, New Geography

Will Rising Inequality Hurt the U.S.?

Scott Winship, Reuters

Heartless Red States vs. Caring Blue States

Jonathan Cohn, TNR

Central Banks Are Out of Bullets

Raghuram Rajan, Project Syndicate

Forget Districts: Charters Are the Future

A. Smarick, Education Gadfly

A Tax Plan Economists Love & Politicians Hate

R. Smith, Planet Money

Microsoft Can't Find Qualified Workers

Brad Smith, Wall Street Journal

Here's Too Much Detail About Mitt's Newest Tax Idea

Joseph Minarik

No Way Obama or Romney Can Keep His Promises

Gene Steuerle

Five Points About Taxes and the Poor

Chuck Marr, Off the Charts

Forgotten Climate Change

Eugene Robinson, Washington Post

Democrats Against Dodd-Frank

John Berlau, National Review

Friday, October 19

Obamacare's Heavy Toll on the Middle Class

Capretta & Miller, e21

Time to End the Bailout of Fannie & Freddie

Swagel & Millstein, WaPo

Stadium Subsidies: Dumb Idea, or Dumbest?

Andrew Moylan, R Street

The Judicial Branch Is Way Too Politicized

J. Hawley, National Affairs

Jon Stewart Asks Obama the Tough Questions

D. Dayen, Firedoglake

Where's the Evidence Inequality Hurts Growth?

Scott Winship, NYT

Massachusetts' Horrible New Foreclosure Law

A. Randazzo, Reason

Leave Food Labeling to the Market

Jonathan Adler, The New Atlantis

Kids Need Shelter

Barbara Sard, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Can an Online Degree Help You Get a Job?

Kayla Webley, Time

11 Ways the Economy Still Isn't Fixed

James Pethokoukis, AEI

Minnesota Outlaws Online Education

Will Oremus, Slate

Sunday, October 21

No Secret Why the Economy Is Weak

Paul Krugman, NYT

The Mormons' Private, Effective Welfare System

N.S. Riley, Philanthropy

The U.S. Doesn't Understand Marriage Anymore

Reihan Salam, Reuters

Comparing Voter ID Laws to Gun Control Laws

Stephanie Jones, Salon

Can a Carbon Tax Succeed Where Cap & Trade Failed?

Robert Stavins

What the Public Doesn't Understand About Deficits

R. Cooper, WaMo

Your Unpaid Public Pensions Bill: $1,385

Novy-Marx & Rauh, WaPo

On the Economy, Obama Passes, Romney Fails

Austan Goolsbee

George McGovern: Touchstone of Liberalism

John Nichols, Nation

George McGovern, Libertarian Hero

Nick Gillespie, Bloomberg

The Tragic Demise of Fannie Mae

Alex Pollock, American

Notes on Riding Amtrak

Clark Whelton, City Journal