So what did you think?
So what did you think?
Whatever the legislature decides about the Wall Street bailout, it is evident that most of the American people oppose it. This seems to be true of both liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans. The conventional wisdom among our rulers, of course, is that these matters
The satirist P. J. O’Rourke, usually a wild man, learned that he has cancer. He has written a remarkable column in the L. A. Times, reflecting in a humorous yet thoughtful way on death, morphing into a confession of faith in Christ. Read it all,
Gwen Ifill, who is moderating the Vice Presidential Debate, is the author of a pro-Obama book that she plans to release around the time of his inauguration. She is that confident. And the sponsors of the debate are that brazen in abandoning the very appearance
The Senate passed a sweetened-up version of the $700 billion Wall Street bailout–sorry, Mainstreet rescue–bill. The House is supposed to take it up on Friday. In the meantime, we will continue to post about alternatives. Yale economists Jonathan G.S. Koppell and William N. Goetzmann point
Instead of a bailout, says this economist who also offers a good overview of what got us into this mess, we simply need to make use of our bankruptcy laws.
That article in “Nature” we linked to yesterday, based on a questionnaire on the candidates’ views about scientific issues, also gives their positions on stem cell research. Here Obama explains why he still believes in harvesting unwanted unborn children for their stem cells even though
I can’t think of any president, let alone a candidate for that office, having praise songs written about him or the equivalent of Sunday Schools gathered in his name. HT: Nathan Martin
This week I’m going to be posting about solutions to our country’s financial meltdown that employ free market principles. (Some of them came up in your comments to previous posts, so thanks.) Phil Kerpen has another idea for raising the $700 billion to buy up
The SEC changed the mark to market rule, a simple revision that could do a lot to ease the credit crisis. Power Line explains: As the economic crisis has deepened over the last several weeks, a number of knowledgeable people have told me that the
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