27 | August | 2012

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Citi: U.S. labor markets have recovered 4 million of the nearly 9 million net job losses from the early 2008 peak. … Yet looking at the overall labor market, millions of unemployed individuals appear to fall in between these extremes. … read more >

Carpe Diem

Energy updates: Marcellus shale gas production doubles in 2012 and the shale boom spreads to Russia

Mark J. Perry | August 27, 2012, 3:18 pm

1. The shale gas boom continues in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale region, with output doubling this year during the January-June period compared to the same period in 2011, and energy industry jobs in Pennsylvania increasing by 150% from 2009 to 2011. … read more >

Pethokoukis, Politics and Public Opinion

Newt: Don’t shorten the GOP convention further

James Pethokoukis | August 27, 2012, 3:04 pm

Republican National Convention – Tampa, Florida Just bumped into Newt Gingrich, and I asked him whether the convention should be shortened any further because of the ongoing hurricane threat to the Gulf coast. His answer: “No, we should just relax … read more >

Pethokoukis, Politics and Public Opinion

What a non-gloomy (even optimistic) GOP guru just told me in Tampa

James Pethokoukis | August 27, 2012, 2:33 pm

Republican National Convention – Tampa, Florida Earlier I posted my sobering, at least for Republicans, chat with a top GOP operative, someone I nicknamed the Gloomy Guru. I got a much different take from Tony Fratto, a partner at white-hot … read more >

Foreign and Defense Policy, Terrorism

Gitmo terrorist gets a kitten (not from the Onion)

Marc Thiessen | August 27, 2012, 2:06 pm

Did the Obama administration just give a top KSM lieutenant at Guantanamo Bay a kitten? Majid Khan is a senior al Qaeda operative who was directly subordinate to KSM and was selected by the 9/11 mastermind to conduct terrorist operations … read more >

Economics, Taxes and Spending

Helping farmers doesn’t mean guaranteeing their success

Vincent Smith | August 27, 2012, 1:19 pm

This article was put out by CNN on Sunday. It is the sort of stuff the dairy lobby will use to justify the Peterson diary program in the house bill that Speaker Boehner described as Soviet agriculture redux. While we … read more >

Society and Culture, Education

Why we should fine chronically-late students

Michael McShane | August 27, 2012, 1:04 pm

I was on Fox and Friends last Saturday for a lively debate with Cynthia Dunbar on the merits of fining chronically truant students. A school district in Connecticut is hoping to curb its attendance problems by levying fines of up … read more >

Pethokoukis, Politics and Public Opinion

Google at the RNC in Tampa

James Pethokoukis | August 27, 2012, 12:58 pm

Right next the non-glorious workspace for your AEIdeas team is the much cooler Google workspace. And here is where we are located. Fancy, eh?

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