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Monthly Archives: February 2012

Carpe Diem

Restaurant Performance Index Suggests Ongoing Improvements As Does Fed’s Beige Book Report

Mark J. Perry | February 29, 2012, 9:41 pm

From today’s report from the National Restaurant Association: “The outlook for the restaurant industry is positive for the coming months, as the National Restaurant Association’s Restaurant Performance Index (RPI) remained well above 100 in January. The RPI – a monthly … read more >

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Carpe Diem

Matt Ridley on How Expensive Green Energy Destroys Jobs, While Cheap Shale Gas Creates Jobs

Mark J. Perry | February 29, 2012, 8:54 pm

Matt Ridley masterfully applies Bastiat’s “broken-window fallacy” to green energy jobs, writing last December in City AM, a UK financial newspaper: “When is a job not a job? Answer: when it is a green job. Jobs in an industry that … read more >

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Foreign and Defense Policy

Hey North Korea! We won’t attack you, but it’s okay if you attack us. Love, Barack Obama

Danielle Pletka | February 29, 2012, 5:23 pm

Earlier today, I passed along the exciting news that senior State Department official Wendy Sherman had once again helped deliver the North Koreans to the negotiating table, a reprise of her Nork work of the Clinton years. And indeed, the … read more >

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Carpe Diem

Huge Gender Gap Persists in College Degrees, Do We Need White House Council on Boys and Men?

Mark J. Perry | February 29, 2012, 3:27 pm

From a BLS report released earlier this month, “America’s Young Adults at Age 24“: “At age 24, a clear gender gap in educational attainment persists. While nearly 28 percent of women had received a bachelor’s degree by the October when … read more >

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Economics

Information rules and regulations

Nick Schulz | February 29, 2012, 3:15 pm

Washington Post reporter Cecilia Kang is terrific at covering the myriad battles roiling tech-land, from patents to spectrum to anti-trust and more. But in a piece on the high “cost” of switching from Google to other information providers, she mischaracterizes … read more >

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Society and Culture, Education

A new breed of educational R&D?

Andrew P. Kelly | February 29, 2012, 3:03 pm

My colleague Rick Hess hosted a killer panel this morning on a proposal to create a version of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for education. You may remember DARPA from such things as, I don’t know, inventing the … read more >

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Society and Culture, Education

A (symbolic) win for innovation in higher education

Andrew P. Kelly | February 29, 2012, 3:02 pm

Over the past two years, the Obama administration has unveiled an expansive new package of “program integrity” regulations for higher education. Two of those provisions—one creating a federal definition of the “credit hour” and one requiring online postsecondary providers to … read more >

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Foreign and Defense Policy

Eun, two, three: Here we go again with North Korea

Danielle Pletka | February 29, 2012, 3:02 pm

Ah, the power of engagement. New North Korean leader Kim Jong Eun has reportedly agreed to a wide-ranging deal with the Obama administration. According to the State Department, the Norks will “… implement a moratorium on long-range missile launches, nuclear … read more >

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Economics, Taxes and Spending

Why doesn’t Romney propose eliminating the corporate income tax?

James Pethokoukis | February 29, 2012, 2:49 pm

If there’s one thing about Mitt Romney’s economic plan that drives conservatives crazy, it’s his take on investment taxes. He would a) maintain the current 15% tax rate on interest, dividends, and capital gains for taxpayers with AGI of $200,000 or … read more >

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Economics, U.S. Economy

America’s missing $800 billion

James Pethokoukis | February 29, 2012, 1:09 pm

Economist Mike Darda of MKM Partners: Wages and salaries advanced at a 5.4% annualized rate after rising at a 6.5% rate in Q3. After adjusting for prices, real wage and salary income rose 4.5% A.R. in Q4 after a 3.9% … read more >

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