Cato’s Alan Reynolds writes in yesterday’s IBD: “A front-page Wall Street Journal feature, titled “Housing Recovery Stalls,” worries that “a new bout of declining home prices is threatening to hamper the U.S. recovery.” A dip in the Case-Shiller moving average … read more
Geneva — “The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced international scheduled traffic results for November showing 8.2% year-on-year passenger traffic growth and a 5.4% increase for freight. November saw traffic growth slow from the 10% increase recorded in the passenger … read more
Yesterday, my wife forwarded a chain email to me that made a lot of sense. It proposed an amendment to the Constitution that would read as follows: Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United … read more
As I wrote just a few days ago, the electric/plug-in hybrid follies continue, wherein Jack and Jane taxpayer subsidize the eco-chic who buy overpriced (think $100,000) electric and plug-in hybrid cars. Today, the Washington Post must have the greatest quote … read more
Over on his Ed Week blog, Rick Hess unveiled the first annual Public Presence metric for university-based education scholars, an initial attempt to gauge a scholar’s influence on education policy discussions in the public square. To readers of the Enterprise … read more
Last year was the (multi)centenary anniversary of a stellar field of those whose names are still known to all. 2010 marks the birth anniversaries of a smaller crop of those who changed their world or ours, or at least made … read more
Pete Wehner is the co-author two excellent new books, City of Man, written with Mike Gerson, and Wealth and Justice: The Morality of Democratic Capitalism, written with Arthur Brooks. Here we discuss these new offerings as well as Pete’s experience … read more
