October 22, 2012 Archives

Week of October 22, 2012 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, October 22

Obama Doesn't Deserve Another Term

Ramesh Ponnuru, Bloomberg

Time to Get Serious About Driverless Cars

Schumpeter, The Economist

We're Repeating the Mistakes That Caused the Recession

C. Sen, Atlantic

Minus Health Care Spending, Deficit Would Be Zero

Incidental Economist

Lack of Health Insurance Isn't a Death Sentence

John Goodman, NCPA

Romney's Right: Dodd-Frank's a Gift to Big Banks

Gray & White, TWS

Obama's Rose-Tinted View of Energy

D. Furchtgott-Roth, RCMarkets

Bad News, Romney: The Economy's Up

J. Bernstein, Maddow Blog

Exam Schools: Education's Best Bargain

C. Finn, Education Gadfly

The Problem with Exam Schools

Rachel Brown, The New Republic

How Romney Can Fulfill His Tax Promises

Michael Strain, AEI

Obamacare vs. Women

Scott Gottlieb, New York Post

Third Presidential Debate Coverage: RealClearWorld.

Tuesday, October 23

Tricks of the Fiscal Conservative Trade

Jeff Frankel, Project Syndicate

Obama vs. Romney on the Auto Bailouts

Joseph Lawler, RealClearPolicy

"Economic Gardening" May Be Answer for Job Creation

A. Leonard, Salon

Flatter Tax Rates Would Boost Inequality, Deficit

A. Fieldhouse, EPI

Why Raising the Retirement Age Is Regressive

Gary Burtless, RCM

Obama Says No Sequestration, But Has No Plan

Pianin & Elhey, FT

Get Rid of 12th Grade, and Start School at Age 3

Linus Wright, CHE

A Cloward-Piven Strategy for Today

Frase & Sunkara, In These Times

10 Ways Romney & Obama Tax Plans Differ

H. Gleckman, TaxVox

Keep Education Regulation at the State Level

A. Coulson, Cato

Would Romney's Fed Keep Hard Money?

M. Yglesias, Slate

Neither Candidate Has a Plan for Jobs

Jim Tankersley, NJ

Wednesday, October 24

U.S. Is Recovering, Thanks to Obama and the Fed

F. Zakaria, WaPo

America Is Wasting Its Youth's Talents

Jeffrey Sachs, Project Syndicate

We Need to Clamp Down on Banks With Dodd-Frank

C. Morris, Reuters

Tuition Subsidies Are the Problem, Not the Solution

Jason Bedrick, Cato

Romney's Budget Math Exposed by...Paul Ryan

David Rogers, Politico

Team Obama's Wrong About the Stimulus

Casey Mulligan, Economix

How Rainy Day Funds Hurt States

E. Washington, NeighborEffects

How Romney Would Reform K-12

Frederick Hess, Education Week

Rent Control Damages Housing Markets

Timothy Taylor, TCE

The Third Industrial Revolution Has Just Begun

Eli Dourado

We Need Another Reagan

James Pethokoukis, New York Post

Yes, We Can Afford Higher Taxes

James Kwak, The Atlantic

Thursday, October 25

Romney's Plan Is a Sham

Paul Krugman, New York Times

Obama's Home State Is Failing

Walter Russell Mead, Via Meadia

Got a Problem? Blame Free Trade

Jeffrey Snider, RealClearMarkets

Will Climate Change Cause Violent Conflict?

Alex Berezow, RCScience

A Real Debt Deal Is Possible -- If Obama's Elected

Ruth Marcus, WaPo

Why the Auto Bailout Should Decide the Election

Jonathan Cohn, TNR

Romney-Ryan's Real Plan: Soak the Poor

Kevin Drum, Mother Jones

Medicare vs. Private Insurance

Robert Moffit & Alyene Senger, NRO

Fixing U.S. Finances Requires a Compromiser

Cox & Indiviglio, Slate

Obama Forgets About Economic Growth

James Pethokoukis, AEI

Thomas Friedman Loves Race to the Top: Should You?

Rick Hess

Moderate Mitt Wouldn't Last a Day

Jonathan Alter, Bloomberg

Friday, October 26

The Economy Isn't Growing. It's Stagnant

Tino Sanandaji, Super-Economy

We're Not Going to Avoid the Fiscal Cliff

Martin Feldstein, Financial Times

It's Time for Nevada to Legalize Weed

J. Patrick Cooligan, Las Vegas Sun

The Real Reason Food Prices Have Spiked

Bar-Yam & Lindsay, Reuters

Public School Employment Has Outpaced Enrollment

Huffington Post

Save the University of California

Mark Kleiman, Washington Monthly

Who Gets Credit for the Economic Recovery?

David Leonhardt, NYT

Parent Trigger Laws Are a Civil Rights Issue

Michelle Rhee, US News

Parent Trigger Laws Hurt Schoolkids

Randi Weingarten, US News

10 Super Easy Ways to Cut Local Spending

Lewis Andrews, WSJ

Why Medicare Must Be Reformed

Donald Schneider, Heritage

$1.1 Trillion in Tax Expenditures: A Primer

Ryan Streeter

Sunday, October 28

Which Does Ohio Care About More: Cars or Coal?

Economist

The Lame Duck Congress Must Fix the Fiscal Cliff

S. Forbes, WSJ

Romney's Desperate Auto Bailout Distortion

Jonathan Cohn, TNR

How Canada Balanced Its Budget

Brian Lee Crowley, Washington Post

Companies Shift to Part-Time Labor

Steven Greenhouse, New York Times

Geoengineering: Risky for the Climate

Wagner & Weitzman, Foreign Policy

I Sent 1,000 Nonviolent Drug Offenders to Prison

M. Bennett, Nation

California Needs to Keep the Death Penalty

James Ardaiz, L.A. Times

An Avalanche of Obamacare Rules in January

G.M. Turner, Forbes

If Obama Wins, Obamacare Takes Effect

Avik Roy, Apothecary

CEOs Favor Obama's Deficit Plan

John Avlon, CNN

The Gulf Coast Is Booming

Joel Kotkin, City Journal