16 | November | 2012

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Saturday morning links

Mark J. Perry | November 16, 2012, 9:57 pm

1. Business Insider reports that: “According to the Energy Information Administration, the Monterrey Formation, which covers an enormous chunk of Southern California and terminates near Santa Barbara, has 15.4 billion barrels of recoverable crude — four times as much as … read more >

Carpe Diem

More reports on strong October home sales

Mark J. Perry | November 16, 2012, 4:16 pm

1. Kansas City new and existing home sales increased 24% in October from 2011, while the average price of existing homes rose 6%. 2. Iowa home sales increased 13.3% in October, and the median sales price increased 5.4%. 3. Orlando … read more >

Carpe Diem

Something to be thankful for: Real cost of a Thanksgiving dinner for ten this year is 1.4% cheaper than last year

Mark J. Perry | November 16, 2012, 3:06 pm

From the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF): The retail cost of menu items for a classic Thanksgiving dinner including turkey, stuffing, cranberries, pumpkin pie and all the basic trimmings increased less than 1 percent this year, according to the American … read more >

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Foreign and Defense Policy, Asia

China’s multipolar disorder

Daniel Blumenthal | November 16, 2012, 3:02 pm

For observers and practitioners of foreign policy, the big news coming out of China is the completion of Xi Jinping’s ascension to the top post of both the Chinese Communist Party and the military on Thursday. As Xi and his … read more >

Politics and Public Opinion

The future of conservatism

UPDATE: Video added

Henrik Temp | November 16, 2012, 2:13 pm

Earlier this morning, AEI welcomed a packed house to its panel discussing the future of the conservative coalition. read more >

Pethokoukis

By the way, Sandy or no Sandy, economy on a bad storm track

James Pethokoukis | November 16, 2012, 1:43 pm

Here is economist Michael Englund of Action Economics in a new research piece titled: “An Ominous Recession Signal from U.S. Industrial Production: The 0.4% U.S. October industrial production drop led by weakness in the manufacturing and business equipment components provided an … read more >

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Economics, Energy and the Environment

The ethanol madness continues

Kenneth P. Green | November 16, 2012, 1:13 pm

The fuel-ethanol saga must rank at or near the top for examples of well-intended policy run amok, wherein a policy is enacted that winds up causing harm to the very thing it was supposed to protect. read more >

Pethokoukis

Tax reform must be pro-family and pro-growth

James Pethokoukis | November 16, 2012, 12:33 pm

The family — first extended, now nuclear — has been considered the core building block of society throughout human history. But that is changing in high-income nations. More individuals are eschewing both marriage and children. This has been driven, says … read more >

Should most illegal immigrants in the US

Politics and Public Opinion, Polls

What you may have missed in the polls: More results from the exit polls

Karlyn Bowman and Andrew Rugg | November 16, 2012, 12:13 pm

A roundup of the week’s most interesting poll numbers. read more >

Foreign and Defense Policy

Best of the foreign policy blogs (11/10-11/16)

Marc Thiessen | November 16, 2012, 10:24 am

Here is the best of what AEI’s foreign and defense policy scholars are reading this week: Robert Kagan in the Washington Post reveals How the Fiscal Crisis Put National Security at Risk Gerald Steinberg at the Times of Israel on … read more >