October 29, 2012 Archives

Week of October 29, 2012 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, October 29

No, Romney Doesn't Want to Kill FEMA

Jordan Weissmann, Atlantic

Frankenstorm Shows Taxes Are Worth It

James Kwak, Baseline Scenario

How Romney Will Fix the Obama Economy

John Taylor, Defining Ideas

Both Parties Want to Cut Medicare

Gene Steuerle, Government We Deserve

No Direct Correlation Between Growth and Education

G. Jones, Econlog

Romney vs. George W. Bush on the Auto Bailouts

J. Lawler, RCPolicy

Science Spending Doesn't Drive Economic Growth

K. Kakaes, Slate

Elect Obama to Improve the Economy

Lawrence Summers, Reuters

What Each Candidate's Cabinet Could Look Like

National Journal

Obamacare: More Unpopular Than Ever

Jeffrey Anderson, TWS

Beware the "Grand Bargain"

John Goodman, Health Policy Blog

The Details of Romney's Tax Plan

Howard Gleckman, TaxVox

Tuesday, October 30

Sandy and the Beachfront Bailout

Matthew Stevenson, New Geography

Don't Expect Climate Progress after Sandy

Bill McKibben, New Republic

Sandy Brings Back the Broken Windows Fallacy

Joe Carter, PowerBlog

How Elizabeth Warren Saved Taxpayers $1 Billion

Matt Stoller, Salon

Obamacare's Costs to the Working Class

David Gamage, WS Journal

CEOs Want to Cut the Debt, But We Shouldn't

Robert Kuttner, TAP

The Buffett Rule Is a Cheap Trick

Thomas Hazlett, RealClearMarkets

NASA Warned New York About Sandy

Chris Mooney, Mother Jones

Democrats Ended Medicare As We Know It

Gail Wilensky, JAMA

George Romney Understood Housing Aid

Freemark & Vale, NYT

Class Warfare by the Upper Class

Katrina vanden Heuvel, WaPo

The Gender Pay Gap Is a Media Myth

Andrew Biggs, AEI

Wednesday, October 31

History Should Remember Obama as a Great President

J. Chait, NY Mag

10 Possible Replacements for Bernanke

Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

Maybe New York Shouldn't Rebuild Its Subways

R. O'Toole, Antiplanner

Can We Do Anything to Prevent Hurricanes Soon?

Michael Levi, CFR

Romney's Free Trade Rhetoric May Be Just That

Simon Lester, Cato

Obama's Horrible 'Secretary of Business' Idea

D. Kreutzer, Heritage

Obama Didn't Ruin Housing -- Or Fix It

Nicole Gelinas, Boston Globe

The Bailouts Didn't Have to Be So Unfair

M.C.K., The Economist

Obama's Record Is Good, But Not Sterling

M. Yglesias, Slate

Krugman's Keynesian Blind Spot

Casey Mulligan, Economix

The Amazing Benefits of Driverless Cars

Timothy Taylor

Paul Ryan's Future Is Bright

Reihan Salam, Reuters

Thursday, November 1

Face It: Global Warming Was Behind Sandy

Paul Barrett, Bloomberg

Problem: Voters Just Don't Care About the Climate

Eli Lehrer, HuffPo

Guess Which States Use the Most Food Stamps

Julia Isaacs, MetroTrends

Experts Agree: The Feds Are Wrong About Loan Costs

Jason Delisle, e21

The Farm Bill Matters More Than Anyone Realizes

Daniel Imhoff, Slate

The U.S. Has Stopped Being the Land of Opportunity

Lane Kenworthy

Obama's Shamefully Botched Housing Bailout

M.C.K., The Economist

Our Best Entrepreneurs Are Immigrants

Thomas McCraw, NY Times

California Won't Fix Education with a Tax Hike

RiShawn Biddle, DN

Lucas Sold Star Wars to Avoid Taxes

Quentin Fottrell, MarketWatch

Housing Recovery: Getting Stronger or Weaker?

Jason Gold, PPI

Obama vs. Romney on Education

Education Week

Friday, November 2

Clinton Helps Obama Undermine Welfare Reform

Adam Selig, RCPolicy

Why a Romney Loss Could Save the GOP

Bruce Bartlett, The Fiscal Times

Here's How Obama's Debt Will Crush the Economy

M. Boskin, Reuters

The Blog That Got Bernanke to Go Big

Brendan Greeley, BusinessWeek

This Jobs Report Indicates a Real Recovery

Derek Thompson, Atlantic

Washington Needs a Romney-Style Turnaround

Capretta & Scott, e21

How FEMA Is Warping Climate Change Politics

Matthew Kahn, HBR

Romney's Plan Would Have Also Saved Detroit

E. Niedermeyer, WSJ

Eight Facts About the Candidates' Tax Plans

Alex Brill, The American

Despite Good Jobs News, Wages Keep Falling

C. Rampell, Economix

The Other Financial Crisis

Mohamed El-Erian, Project Syndicate

Obama's Biggest Education Mistakes

Laitinen & Burd, NAF

Sunday, November 4

Obamanomics Means We'll Never Fill the Jobs Gap

J. Pethokoukis, NYP

How to Lower the Debt Without Hurting Growth

A. Alesina, City Journal

Repealing ACA Would Hurt Minorities Most

D. Houry and S. Heron, CNN

Americans Still Don't Get Obamacare

Stephanie Mencimer, Mother Jones

The Female Wage Gap Is a Massive Economic Myth

Dean Kalahar, RCM

Obama Placed Politics Before Science

Berezow & Campbell, American

Lessons from Gay Marriage in Canada

Bradley Miller, Public Discourse

Black America Is in a Depression

Walter Russell Mead, Via Meadia

Recovery Jobs Numbers Worst Since 1960's

Rob Bluey, Foundry

Technology Can't Save Us from Another Sandy

Nik Janos, Grist

Romney Woud Restrict Abortion Access

K. Sheppard, MoJo

The Risks of Going Over the Fiscal Cliff

Econbrowser