Week of February 18, 2013 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, February 18
No More Nostalgia for the 1950s Economy
Scott Winship, Breakthrough
Obamacare's ACOs Won't Work
Christensen, Flier & Vijayaraghavan, WSJ
Time to WARN Federal Employees of Layoffs
Diana Furchtgott-Roth, RCM
The Steep Costs of High Worker Turnover
Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism
Where Is the Republican Obamacare Alternative?
John Goodman, NCPA
Opposing Keystone XL Won't Save the Environment
Joe Nocera, NYT
Apprenticeships Deserve More Credibility
Timothy Taylor, Conver. Econ.
Nations Should Build Up Asset Portfolios
M. Spence, Project Syndicate
Paying for Universal Pre-K Wouldn't Be That Hard
Jonathan Cohn, TNR
Obama Wildly Oversells Universal Pre-K
Rich Lowry, New York Post
Obama Must Be Willing to Pay for His Agenda
Robert Kuttner, TAP
Deficit Reduction Is a Solution, Not a Distraction
Economics21
Tuesday, February 19
Long Prison Sentences: A Cause of Poverty
John Tierney, NYT
Planning for When Robots Take Our Jobs
R. Skidelsky, Project Syndicate
More Immigrants Are Much Needed, Not More Babies
Isabel Sawhill, RCM
The Minimum Wage Is a Distraction
John Cochrane, Grumpy Economist
Public Transit Fails Those Who Need It Most
A. Dean, Boston Review
Who Bears the Burden of Corporate Taxes?
Bruce Bartlett, Economix
The Top 10 Anti-Obamacare Bills
James Capretta, National Review
Is Fracking Boom a Bubble Waiting to Burst?
Philip Bump, Grist
The GOP's Minimum Wage Opportunity
Ed Glaeser, Bloomberg
Business Depends on the Rule of Law
Myron Brilliant, Heritage
Obamacare vs. Children's Health
Scott Gottlieb, New York Post
10 Things to Know About Welfare
Greg Kaufmann, The Nation
Wednesday, February 20
The Government Will Grow. Deal With It
Jonathan Cohn, New Republic
Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us
Steven Brill, Time
Dependence On the Government Keeps Growing
Nicholas Eberstadt, RCM
After Chicago Knocked Down the Projects
K. Williamson, National Review
Now Is Right Time for an Infrastructure Bank
G. Levenson Keohane, NND
Our Surgeon General Is Missing in Action
Mark Bittman, New York Times
Should Solitary Confinement Be Considered Torture?
George Will, WaPo
The Science Isn't There for Obama's Pre-K Plan
C. Murray, Bloomberg
Why Clarence Thomas Uses Simple Words
Conor Friedersdorf, Atlantic
A Case for Eliminating the Minimum Wage
James Dorn, Cato Institute
Five Things to Know About Immigration
Aura Bogado, The Nation
The Minimum Wage Gamble
Michael Kinsley, Los Angeles Times
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Thursday, February 21
Create Jobs with Stability, Not the Safety Net
Jason Stverak, RCPolicy
The Case for Raising the Gasoline Tax
Valerie Karplus, New York Times
Congress Doesn't Really Believe in the Minimum Wage
Dwight Lee, WSJ
The Ratings Agencies Are Part of a Corrupt System
David Dayen, TAP
How Unions Undermine Prison Reform
Ridgeway & Casella, Mother Jones
More Inflation Is the Cure for the Fed's Weakness
R. Avent, Bloomberg
All Your Impressions of Detroit Are Wrong
A. Renn, Christianity Today
Rubio's Immigration Plan Is Lesser Evil
Charles Krauthammer, WaPo
The Surprising Success Story of Iceland
Tracey Greenstein, Forbes
12 Reasons Not to Expand Medicaid
Roy & Turner, National Review
Don't Forget About Full-Day Kindergarten
Laura Bornfreund, NAF
The High-Tech Future of Medicine
Henry Miller, Defining Ideas
Friday, February 22
Obama's Sequester Scaremongering Doesn't Work
George Will, WaPo
Obama Risks Real Tax Reform for Hikes
Jacob Sullum, New York Post
Time to Fix Unemployment Insurance
T. Taylor, Conversable Economist
America's Biggest Problem Is Housing, Not D.C.
Derek Thompson, Atlantic
Get Ready for the Fed to Start Losing Money
Annalyn Kurtz, CNNMoney
Minimum Wage: Which Side Are You On?
J. Minarik, Back in the Black
Immigration Reform Winners: Red States
Joel Kotkin, New Geography
Jane Jacobs Was Wrong About Crime
M. Bevilacqua, Next American City
Photos: EPA's Idea of Transparency
William Yeatman, Global Warming
Citigroup Gets Its Man in the Treasury
Jonathan Weil, Bloomberg
Krugman vs. Our Growing Debt
Steve Stein, Policy Review
The Top 5 Lies About Biotech Crops
Ronald Bailey, Reason
Sunday, February 24
Why the $100 Million Central Park Gift Makes Sense
H. Husock, Forbes
Here's Obama's Secret Debt Strategy
James Pethokoukis, National Review
Turn Down the City Lights, and Increase Safety
Paul Bogard, Bloomberg
The Dangers of Mutant Mosquitoes
Maggie Koerth-Baker, NYT Magazine
Why Does the U.S. Bar Mexican Tomatoes?
C. Barfield, RealClearPolicy
Obama on Chicago Gun Violence: So Close
Heather Mac Donald, TWS
The Pentagon Has Embraced Green Energy
Julia Whitty, Mother Jones
The Myth of the Student-Loan Crisis
Allan and Thompson, Atlantic
How California Was Crushed By Pensions
Steven Malanga, LAT
Immigration Is Killing the Tech Economy
John Feinblatt, Wired
Put NASA to Work on Asteroid Defense
The Economist
The Miracle on Guns
E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
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