NY TIMES (Jan. 7, 2009) — This is what life in one American city looks like after an industrial collapse: Unemployment is far below the national average (see chart above, data through April 2009). While housing prices sank nearly everywhere … read more
(Washington, D.C.) — The outlook for the restaurant industry grew more optimistic in April, as the National Restaurant Association’s comprehensive index of restaurant activity registered its fourth consecutive monthly gain. The Association’s Restaurant Performance Index (RPI) – a monthly composite … read more
“The status quo is no longer acceptable,” President Obama declared, announcing that the results of the White House’s 60-day cyberspace policy review, a 38-page report that dismally concludes that the federal government is not properly set up to handle the … read more
Jonathan Cohn has a wonderfully revealing piece of reporting in the recent New Republic. Apparently Obama’s healthcare reformers are worried about forthcoming Congressional Budget Office scoring. It looks like the price tag for Obama’s healthcare plan might come in at … read more
Ed Morrissey reviews in the Wall Street Journal my recent book on compensating kidney donors, along with another book by Daniel Asa Rose on traveling to China to obtain a kidney for his cousin. Morrissey rightly points out the moral … read more
With the successful underground test of a Hiroshima-sized nuclear bomb, it is now apparent that North Korea’s top priority was not its civilian energy needs, although Pyongyang was quite happy to accept over $2 billion in free shipments of heavy … read more
Nicholas Kristof has one of the most widely emailed New York Times columns of the last few days, talking about the non-rational differences between liberals and conservatives. Kristof tries to be fair, but he has the same problem as so … read more
