February 4, 2013 Archives

Week of February 4, 2013 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, February 4

Sports Betting Is Too Profitable Not to Legalize

J. Surowiecki, New Yorker

Washington Is Booming, and That's Not a Good Thing

Aaron Renn, CJ

Our Mental Health Care System Is a Disaster

E. Fuller Torrey, WSJ

Big Banks Aren't As Special As They Think

Admati & Hellwig, Bloomberg

Family Breakdown Is Now Biracial

Isabel Sawhill, The Washington Monthly

GOP State Tax Reforms Make Little Sense

T. Gordon, RealClearMarkets

America Has Reached a Disturbing 'New Normal'

J. Pethokoukis, AEI

Conventional Wisdom Is Wrong on Manufacturing

Edward Alden, CFR

Obamacare: Not as Universal as You Thought

Jonathan Cohn, TNR

Don't Put All the Blame on the Fed for the Crisis

K. Rogoff, ProSyn

Gov't Spending Isn't Working, So More of It Isn't the Answer

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Real Homeownership Is in Long-Run Decline

Mark Calabria, Cato

Tuesday, February 5

Things Get Gross When Plastic Bags Are Banned

R. Ponnuru, Bloomberg

GOP Is Wrong About the Consumer Finance Regulator

M. Konczal, NND

Deficit of Trust Impedes Real Immigration Reform

Steven Malanga, RCM

Where to Start on Obamacare Reform

Gottlieb, Troy, & Howard, Forbes

Super Bowl Blackout Shows We Need a Smart Grid

J. Avlon, Daily Beast

Failure of 401(k)s Means Poverty for Near-Retirees

D. Black, USA Today

Mortgage Deduction Creates More Debt, Not Wealth

Doyle McManus, LAT

Congress Is Risking 1 Million Jobs with Sequester

David Firestone, NYT

Why Unions Are Rooting for the Marijuana Industry

Molly Redden, TNR

Employers Should Love Paid Sick Leave

David Callahan, Policy Shop

Forget 'the Children' -- Lower the Debt for Us

Meghan Clyne, TWS

The Dangers of Quasi-Capitalism

Howard Husock, National Affairs

Wednesday, February 6

CBO Settles Budget Debate in Conservatives' Favor

P. Klein, Examiner

If Obamacare Isn't Fixed by 2014, We're Done

C. Blahous, Defining Ideas

The Caribbean Island at War with U.S. Copyright

J. Villasenor, Brookings

Government Workers Should Get Regular Pay Cuts

A. Kling, American

The Best Case for a Balanced Budget Amendment

George Will, WaPo

The Senate Immigration Plan Has Been Tried Before

Jim Antle, TAC

Refuting 3 Common Arguments For Keystone XL

David Roberts, Grist

Government Layoffs Are Holding Back Recovery

Josh Bivens, NYT

Elizabeth Warren's First Big Move as Senator

David Dayen, TAP

A Transaction Tax Would Be All Upside

Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica

The Myth of 'Saudi America'

Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, Slate

Is Nuclear Power Done For?

David Biello, Scientific American

Thursday, February 7

5 Reasons to Grant Amnesty to Illegal Immigrants

Ed Krayewski, Reason

Illinois Must Solve Its Own Pension Problems

D. Liljenquist, Deseret News

GOP Should Call Obama's Sequester Bluff

Charles Krauthammer, WaPo

When It Comes to Patents, Congress Needs to Act

C. Sheppard, Wired

A Carbon Tax is Pro-Growth Environmentalism

Adele Morris, Brookings

Don't Worry, There's No Fertility Crisis

Ruy Teixeira, The New Republic

States' "Sophie's Choice" on Medicaid Expansion

Chris Conover, Forbes

10 Lessons for the Budget from the Latest CBO Report

C. Blahous, e21

Obama's Nominee for Interior Secretary Is a Radical

K. Strassel, WSJ

Billionaires Are Turning Detroit into a Playground

Mark Binelli, NYT

Higher Oil Taxes Would Lift the Economy

Levi & Ahn, Bloomberg

Is Your 401(k) Obsolete?

Anne Kim, Progressive Policy Institute

Friday, February 8

The President Disguises Tax & Spend as 'Reform'

Gordon Gray, RCPolicy

Obamacare's Shell Games vs. Our Consciences

Ilya Shapiro, Cato@Liberty

How Big Beer Is Trying to Stop a Craft Beer Revolution

E. Flock, US News

Obama Has Delivered for Blacks

Simon van Zuylen-Wood, Wash. Monthly

Governor Smackdown: Wisconsin vs. Minnesota

Louis Johnston, MinnPost

'Baby Boxes' vs. the Right to Know Your Origins

C. Witt, Boston Review

The GOP Plan for an Immigrant Underclass

Aviva Shen, ThinkProgress

There's No Good News on the Budget

Joseph Minarik, Back in the Black

The Private Bridge Slowing Down Detroit

A. Robinson, Car&Driver

Big Coal's Days Are Numbered

Brooke Jarvis, Rolling Stone

Ohio's Medicaid Expansion Is a Mistake

Avik Roy, Forbes

Mother Nature Doesn't Do Bailouts

Julie Fox Gorte, HBR

Sunday, February 10

Texas' Economic Growth Is No Mirage

Wendell Cox, City Journal

Obama's Gun Agenda vs. the Constitution

Rivkin & Grossman, WSJ

The Case for Privatizing Pennsylvania's Liquor Laws

M. Daniels, Reason

Do We Really Have to to Stabilize the Debt?

J. Bernstein, On the Economy

America's Unwise Turn Toward Austerity

John Cassidy, The New Yorker

States Struggle to Deal With Teacher Pensions

R. Biddle, Dropout Nation

The Neglected Cost of Government Spending

Jeff Dorfman, RCMarkets

Avoiding Hospitalization: Private-Sector Reform

A. Wolfberg, Atlantic

While US Stagnates, Sweden Reforms

J. Pethokoukis, National Review

2011 Budget Cuts Were Mostly an Illusion

David Fahrenthold, WaPo

It's Time to Harp Benefits of Vocational Schools

Walt Gardner, TWT

A Tax to Pay for War

R. Russell Rumbaugh, New York Times