The real unemployment is much higher and most Americans know it
by By Ken Braun • Michigan Live Just one third of Americans know the official unemployment rate is around six percent, according to the latest Pew Research Center News IQ…
ObamaCare: The Bad News Continues to Mount
by Robert E. Moffit • National Interest On November 15, open enrollment in the Obamacare exchanges begins again. Before the second act of our national healthcare…
Obama’s super slow, trickle-up economy
by New York Daily News Happy days are not yet here again for American workers, regardless of the cheering generated by the government’s latest report on job creation. The number…
Obamacare’s website still faces hurdles as year two approaches
by The Washington Examiner A year ago this week, Healthcare.gov launched and set a new standard for costly technological disasters. The portal for obtaining private insurance under Obamacare proved completely…
Wind Farms Getting a Pass on Killing Endangered Species?
by Tom Steward • Daily Signal Nothing strikes fear into developers and property owners more than a new critter on the federal list of endangered species. Case in point:…
Tax dollars blowing in the wind-energy production credit
by Ernest Istook • Washington Times Crony capitalism plans are so lucrative for a select few that they are hard to kill. Those who get rich make generous…
Targeting the Constitution
by Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz • Washington Post It is now well known that the IRS targeted tea party organizations. What is less well known, but perhaps…
Time for Solar Subsidies to Sunset
by Peter Roff • The Hill Some of solar energy’s more persuasive advocates have some people believing the age of free, homegrown electricity is just around the…
Unemployed by ObamaCare
Three new Fed surveys highlight damage to the labor market. Wall Street Journal Editorial Most of the political class seems to have decided that ObamaCare is working well enough, the…
How to Transition from Obamacare to Real Health Care Reform
by James C. Capretta and Yuval Levin • Weekly Standard Obamacare—or at least the version of it that the president and his advisers currently think they…
Mob Rule Economics
by Thomas Sowell • Pittsburgh Tribune-Review While we talk about democracy and equal rights, we seem increasingly to let both private and government decisions be determined by mob…
Large Government out of Place in a Society based on Small Technology
by Michael Barone • Washington Examiner “Twentieth-century technology,” writes economic historian Joel Mokyr in the Manhattan Institute’s excellent City Journal, “was primarily about ‘large’ things.” Large in physical size,…
Harry Reid’s Peculiar Priorities
by Mark Pfeifle • RealClearPolitics The United States Senate should have a busy schedule when it comes back into session this week. Atrocities in the Middle…
The Myth of ObamaCare’s Affordability
The law’s perverse incentives will have the nation working fewer hours, and working those hours less productively. By Casey B. Mulligan • Wall Street Journal Whether…
America’s New Class System
“Clerisy” class does the bidding of tech oligarchs to detriment of the middle class. by Glenn Harlan Reynolds • USAToday We’ve heard a lot of election-year…