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Posted 5 days ago
The U.S. economic slowdown is hard to diagnose right now for many reasons. Do we have a recession or stagflation? Are we nearing the beginning or end of the housing bust and credit crisis?Regional dis
Posted 1 week ago
One of life's big questions, isn't it? (For many, an uncomfortable one.)Arthur Brooks tackles the question here. One Brooks gem: Success trumps money as a happiness driver. B. C. Forbes, who founded F
Posted 1 week ago
I've decided to hide out in the woods of northern Wisconsin until somebody rings a bell that tells me stocks are going back up. Ring it loud! The coyotes and loons tend to drown out other noises up he
Posted 2 weeks ago
David Brooks exposes Barack Obama as double-dealing Chicago pol in Friday's New York Times:Barack Obama has worked on political reform more than any other issue. He aspires to be to political reform w
Posted 2 weeks ago
Being a chilled-out groovy Californian, I never pass on the chance to read a George Soros interview in Maclean's. You see, I need the blood pressure boosts. These are instantly supplied by ingrates li
Posted 2 weeks ago
Today's blog borrows its title from Thomas Frank's bestseller, What's the Matter with Kansas? Frank, a populist lefty, asked why America's white working class often votes against its economic interest
Posted 3 weeks ago
Rich Lowry puts his finger on it:At a town-hall meeting in Philadelphia, McCain said he could no sooner drill in ANWR [the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge] than in the Grand Canyon. This is like comp
Posted 3 weeks ago
Great piece Wednesday by Robert Samuelson. Key paragraphs:Start with Barack Obama. Even those who disagree with him ought to feel pride in his impending nomination, because it continues America's raci
Tags: tax
Posted 3 weeks ago
It's Monday and I m in Cannes, France, (at the beautiful Carlton Hotel, location of the Cary Grant and Grace Kelly version of To Catch A Thief) to host the Forbes Europe CEO Forum. The film festival
Tags: economy
Posted 4 weeks ago
Believe that global warming is the moral issue of our time, as does Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and you can justify a redistributive porker like the Lieberman-Warner cap-and-trade bill. Had it
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