Week of December 3, 2012 Archives

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Monday, December 3
The Left Flip-Flops on the Bush Tax Cuts
Steve Conover, The American
The Fiscal Cliff Is Better Than Boehner's Offer
Jonathan Cohn, TNR
Sweden Shows School Choice Works
Adam Ozimek, Modeled Behavior
Obamacare's Not Dead, But States Are Holding It Back
Greg Anrig, WaMo
Forget Fiscal Cliff; Focus On Debt Ceiling
Isabel Sawhill, RealClearMarkets
Norquist's Pledge Will Take Us Over Fiscal Cliff
Jim Cramer, MSN Money
Thank Markets, Not Policy, for Energy Miracle
D. Lachman, American
How Obamacare Incentives Part-Time Jobs
Robert Book, Apothecary
The Fed Is Making It Harder to Face the Debt
Charles Lane, WaPo
Americans Are Ready for Monetary Reform
Ralph Benko, Forbes
Tax the Wealthy...States
William Tucker, The American Spectator
Tax Free-Riding Carbon Polluters
Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker
What Bob Costas Doesn't Get About Guns
John Lott, FOXNews
Tuesday, December 4
No Surplus Means No More Tax Cuts
Ruth Marcus, Washington Post
Are We in a Long-Term Innovation Crisis?
K. Rogoff, Project Syndicate
Cities & States Turn to Fiscal Stunts to Stay Afloat
Steven Malanga, RCM
Fiscal Cliff Is Last Chance to Fix Tax Code
Stevenson & Wolfers, Bloomberg
Guess Which State Is Leading the Way on Preschool
Sharon Lerner, TAP
Obama Can Reduce Emissions -- Without Congress
David Roberts, Grist
Boehner Can Use the Constitution to Win Standoff
C. Dahlman, AEI
Bigotry Thwarts Louisiana School Reform
R. Biddle, Dropout Nation
Government Employees Are Underworked
Biggs & Richwine, WSJ
GOP Won't Admit Supply-Side Economics Failed
Mark Thoma, FT
Kill the Debt Ceiling Once and for All
Paul Waldman, Salon
The Blue-State Suicide Pact
Joel Kotkin, Forbes
Wednesday, December 5
Here's What's Really Holding Back the Midde Class
Jared Bernstein, NYT
Now Mexico Is Worried About Illegal Immigration
S. Rotella, ProPublica
Obamacare Faces Another Serious Legal Challenge
Rivkin & Casey, WSJ
Republicans Should Accept Higher Taxes for Millionaires
R. Salam, CNN
Savings Bonds: The Ultimate Stocking Stuffer
Anne Kim, RealClearPolicy
Less Poverty Right Now Means We Messed Up
Casey Mulligan, Economix
Six Charts Showing the Working Class Is Getting Crushed
J. Rauch, NJ
Get Ready for Huge Obamacare Rate Increases
Robert Laszewski, HCB
Did Brown v. Board of Education Ultimately Fail?
S. Garland, Atlantic
Eight Suggestions for Dealing with the Fiscal Cliff
Charles Blahous, e21
'Fairness' Isn't About Marginal Tax Rates
J. Minarik, Back in the Black
Time to End the Federal Housing Administration
A. Randazzo, RCM
Thursday, December 6
Tax Reform Is Dead
Robert Samuelson, Washington Post
Obama Should Focus on Just the Mega-Rich
Robert Kuttner, TAP
Liberals: Taxing Just the Rich Isn't Enough
David Callahan, Policy Shop
Why Can't We Even Talk About Guns in the U.S.?
Timothy Egan, NYT
Time to Talk About Death Panels Again
Robert McHenry, The American
Looks Like Big Oil Is Going to Keep Its Subsidies
A. Kroll, Mother Jones
Obama Replaces "Trickle-Down" with "Middle-Out"
H. Boushey, Atlantic
Six Reasons We Should Get Rid of the Debt Ceiling
Ethan Pollack, EPI
Is City Planning Just Pseudoscience?
Sarah Fecht, Scientific American
Let's Go Off the Cliff
Belt, Bernstein, Gale & Swagel , Bloomberg
A Nation of Singles
Jonathan Last, Weekly Standard
We're Also Facing a Dairy Cliff
The Economist
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Friday, December 7
Five Myths About the Unemployed
McGahey & Ghilarducci, Wash. Post
Fannie & Freddie Aren't Piggy banks
Griffith & Gordon, American Banker
A Carbon Tax Could Fix Climate, Economy
J. Romm, Energy Collective
Spending, Not a Lack of Taxes, Is the Real Problem
V. Davis Hanson, IBD
Can We Cope with Climate Change by Moving North?
The Economist
Obama's Choice: Growth, or Environmentalists
Joel Kotkin, Daily Beast
Rick Snyder: Michigan's Reluctant Union Buster
Alec MacGillis, TNR
Austerity Hasn't Worked for Britain
John Cassidy, The New Yorker
Time for the GOP to Beat a Strategic Retreat
Larry Kudlow, NRO
Stimulus: Eliminate Sports Salary Caps
Andrew Biggs, AEI
The November Jobs Report, in Graphs
Chad Stone, CBPP
Obama's Pot Dilemma
Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone
Sunday, December 9
Mass Mexican-U.S. Migration Is Over
Michael Barone, New York Post
A Tax the IRS Will Surely Abuse
Ilya Shapiro & Matt Gilliam, American
Time for Colleges to Get Rid of the Credit Hour
Kevin Carey, NY Times
Constitution Is Obama's Guide to Debt-Ceiling Win
Jack Balkin, Atlantic
Six Ways for the U.S. to Cut Spending
Robert Zoellick, Wall Street Journal
Fed Prisons Are Too Cruel for Their Own Good
Sadhbh Walshe, Guardian
Obamacare May Make Owning Your Pet More Costly
L. Markay, Foundry
We're Headed Toward Recession? Don't Believe It
Tim Duy, Fed Watch
The Economy Is Creating a Lost Generation
Robert Samuelson, WaPo
Can States Actually Secede?
Brion McClanahan, American Conservative
The Trillion Dollar Platinum Coin
James Hamilton, Econbrowser
Let's Get Rid of Social Studies
Michael Knox Beran, City Journal
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