Week of January 7, 2013 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, January 7
Middle Class Taxes Will Have to Rise
Cliff Asness, The American
We're Not Finished Debating Taxes
Jonathan Cohn, The New Republic
Why California's Economic Outlook Is Bleak
Joel Kotkin, New Geography
Will U.S. Make Europe's Austerity Mistake?
Wolfgang Münchau, FT
GOP Doesn't Need Debt Ceiling for Govt Shutdown
Suzy Khimm, WaPo
Obama Should Call McConnell's Bluff
Robert Kuttner, American Prospect
Obama Shouldn't Play $1 Trillion Coin Toss
Felix Salmon, Reuters
The Benefits of Uncertainty
Binyamin Appelbaum, New York Times
Wind Industry's Tax Credits Are a Joke
Charles Ebinger, Brookings
Gradualism on Climate Change Is Pointless
Bill McKibben, Grist
Stop Disenfranchising Criminals
Pamela Karlan, Boston Review
We Need Roads, Not Keynesianism
Noah Smith, Noahpinion
Tuesday, January 8
Robots Will Help Solve the Entitlements Crisis
Holman Jenkins, WSJ
The Tax Deal Mostly Helped the Rich
Harold Meyerson, Washington Post
States Cut Taxes Even as Washington Raises Them
Steven Malanga, RCM
Keystone XL Pipeline Is Low-Risk, High-Reward
Paul Knappenberger, Cato
The Economics of the Trillion-Dollar Platinum Coin
G.I., The Economist
Matt Damon's Wrong: Fracking Is Worthwhile
Ronald Bailey, Reason
A Constitutional Case for the Flat Tax
Richard Epstein, Defining Ideas
Should We Tax Annoying People?
Adam Davidson, New York Times
In Praise of Teach for America
Naomi Schaefer Riley, New York Post
7 Ways to Reform Failed Banking Regulation
C. Calomiris, VoxEU
Don't Assume Slowed Health Care Costs Indicate a Trend
CRFB
Let's Crowdsource a Greener, Better Economy
Van Jones, CNN
Wednesday, January 9
Here's How the GOP Can Win the Debt Ceiling Fight
Karl Rove, WSJ
Why Does the FDA Keep Doctors in the Dark?
Howard & Copland, IBD
Section 8 Housing Subsidies Create Dependency
John Stossel, Reason
A Minimum Wage Hike Would Boost Entire Economy
E. Gerson, Atlantic
Ending NYC Stop-and-Frisk a Civil Liberties Victory
Justin Peters, Slate
Don't Scrap the Debt Ceiling, Just Tweak It
Caroline Baum, Bloomberg
Obama's Debt Ceiling Trump Card
Edward Kleinbard, New York Times
We're Not Close to Resolving Our Fiscal Problems
Yuval Levin, TWS
Gun Control Will Require Republican Buy-In
E.J. Dionne, Wash. Post
Why Are Murders Spiking in Some Cities?
Jake Blumgart, Next City
Does Public Health Insurance Cost Less?
J. Goodman, Health Policy
How the Government Ruined My Start-Up
Mark Lewyn, AllThingsD
Thursday, January 10
Why the Unemployment Rate Is So High
Laura D'Andrea Tyson, Economix
Disease, Biodiversity, and the Wealth of Nations
Alex Berezow, RCScience
What Solving Climate Change Will Take
David Biello, Scientific American
Debt Limit Workaroud: Tap Social Security Trust Fund
Jed Graham, IBD
Can India Defeat Poverty with Cash Handouts?
Glassman & Birdsall, FP
Jack Lew Nomination Signals Obama's Centrism
Robert Kuttner, TAP
Why Not Reinstate Glass-Steagall?
Barry Eichengreen, Project Syndicate
The U.S. Is Now Ready for Spending Cuts
Edward Glaeser, Bloomberg
It Costs $10,000 to Nab One Illegal Immigrant
Boak & Pianin, TFT
Americans Are Unhealthier Than You Think
Edward Alden, CFR
Young People Are Out of Luck
Bryan Goldberg, PandoDaily
Starving U.S. Cities to Feed the Suburbs
Ben Adler, Grist
Friday, January 11
Reminder: We Need More Affordable Housing
Anne Kim, RealClearPolicy
Americans Are Defined by Place
Rich Danker & Xixi Chen, Public Discourse
Climate Change Is Scarier Than We Thought
T. McDonnell, Mother Jones
Why CEOS Get Paid So Much
R. Fisman & T. Sullivan, Wall Street Journal
The Bailouts Didn't Succeed. They Utterly Failed
M. Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Lew Nomination Offically Ends Financial Reform
Heidi Moore, Guardian
Civil Society, Not Government, Fixes Poverty
S. Butler, National Affairs
Climate Change Doesn't Have to Be All Bad News
Z. Karabell, Reuters
The Genius Who Thought Up the $1T Platinum Coin
Ryan Tate, Wired
The U.S. Is Not Going to Default on Its Debt
Caroline Baum, NY Post
Courts vs. Cops in New York City
Heather Mac Donald, City Journal
America Flunks Its Health Exam
Aaron Carroll, CNN
Sunday, January 13
Obamacare Means Skyrocketing Premiums
Matthews & Litow, WSJ
The Entitlements Era Is Winding Down
Michael Barone, D.C. Examiner
Here's Why Obama Said No to the Platinum Coin
Jonathan Cohn, TNR
California's Demographics Are Getting Ugly
Joel Kotkin, New Geography
Make Farmers Focus on Crop Diversity, Not Quantity
Tom Philpott, MoJo
Rising Debt Is Devaluing the Dollar
Davies and Harrigan, Mercatus Center
Justice Scalia Is Way Too Sure of Himself
Akhil Reed Amar, Democracy
Texas Shows Risks of Defunding Planned Parenthood
M. Redden, TNR
Hiring More Cops Isn't the Solution to Crime
Steven Greenhut, Reason
Geithner Deserves More Credit Than He's Given
M. O'Brien, Atlantic
Stagnant Wages Are America's Big Problem
Steven Greenhouse, NYT
How Technology Can Help Fight Gun Crimes
Maureen Mackey, TFT
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