Oil Price Shocks and the Recession of 2011?
Oil prices surged to near $107 per barrel yesterday and regular gasoline is going for $3.51 per gallon. Last March oil sold for around $80 per barrel and gas cost about $2.79 per gallon. The uprisings...
View ArticlePuerto Rico Gov. Luis Fortuño Embraces PPPs
Puerto Rico Governor Luis Fortuño recently sat down with Matt Welch of reason.tv, where they discussed a wide range of topics. Gov. Fortuño explains in the interview that during his time in office he...
View ArticleTiny Cuts, Big Complaints
In the context of federal spending that will total something like $3.8 trillion this year, $61 billion is a rounding error. Yet the Democrats resisting that amount in House-approved cuts say it will...
View ArticleThe Elmo "Vendetta"
Looks as if we're finally going to get those hipsters at National Public Radio. Elmo should probably start thinking twice before going outside, as well.Yes, I realize that defunding NPR and PBS...
View ArticleTo the Shores of Tripoli!
It is reasonable to conclude that if John McCain had won the presidency, the United States military would be at this moment engaging in war with Libya, by enforcing a no-fly zone over the embattled...
View ArticleThe Year 2010 in Corrections Public-Private Partnerships
This section of Reason Foundation's Annual Privatization Report 2010 provides an overview of the latest news and trends in corrections public-private partnerships (PPPs). Topics include:Corrections...
View ArticleThe Year 2010 in Water & Wastewater Public-Private Partnerships
This section of Reason Foundation's Annual Privatization Report 2010 provides an overview of the latest news on public-private partnerships in water and wastewater services. Topics include:U.S. water...
View ArticleThe Lobster Underground
Lobster is upscale. Hot dog buns are not. Crack the former, toast and butter the latter, maybe mix in a bit of celery and mayonnaise, and you have the ultimate in shabby-chic cuisine: the lobster roll....
View ArticleObama's Green-Jobs Fantasy
Anyone who understands basic economics already knows that President Obama's $2.3 billion green-jobs initiative was snake oil. Now, thanks to Kenneth P. Green, we have statistics as well as theory to...
View ArticleForeclosure Growth Slowing But Don't Jump for Joy Just yet
A report from Lender Processing Services last week shows the housing market to still be beset by a foreclosure crisis, though the siege has started to weaken some. Still, the recent good news may not...
View ArticleNew, Even More Exaggerated, Florida High-Speed Rail Numbers
A new ridership study suggests that the Tampa-to-Orlando high-speed rail line, which has already been rejected by Gov. Rick Scott, would have generated even more passengers than previously projected...
View ArticleState of the State: Oregon in 2011
This is the fourth of a ten-part series on the 2011 State of the State (SOTS) speeches in states with the ten worst projected relative budget deficits for FY 2012. Budget data is from the Center on...
View ArticleUS Missing Huge Opportunity by Not Opening Up Trade With Turkey
Minyanville.com Something was missing from Francisco Sanchez’s speech on boosting trade with the Middle East last month. Obama’s Trade Czar highlighted the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar as excellent...
View Article3 Essential Facts About the Current Moment: We're Out of Money, The Public...
"What Michael Moore Gets About Wisconsin...and America," shouts a recent headline for a story at The Nation's website.The filmmaker Moore, of course, became famous for stalking a feckless GM exec years...
View ArticleThe Truth About the State Pension Crisis
Editor’s Note: Reason columnist Veronique de Rugy appears weekly on Bloomberg TV to separate economic fact from economic myth.Myth 1:Unfunded state pensions do not represent an immediate threat and are...
View ArticleGoogle Deconstructed
I am eagerly awaiting my copy of Siva Vaidhyanathan’s new book, The Googlization of Everything (And Why Should Worry), from Amazon.com this weekend.Vaidhyanathan, professor of media studies at the...
View ArticleWho Is the Real Enemy?
"Our real enemy is not Islam or Muslims. The enemy is extremism and radicalism and radical ideology."So says Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam for the planned Islamic center near the site of the World Trade...
View ArticleCramdowns Could Return
There has been a lot of talk over the past several weeks about a plot by federal and state regulators to force banks to modify as much as $20 billion in mortgages for their role in robo-gate. I had a...
View ArticleAtlas Shrugged: Is A (the Movie) Really A (the Novel)?
The official release of the movie Atlas Shrugged Part One, based on Ayn Rand’s controversial 1957 novel, is not until April 15. It then begins a limited theatrical rollout in 11 American cities (which...
View ArticleState of the State: Minnesota in 2011
This is the fifth of a ten-part series on the 2011 State of the State (SOTS) speeches in states with the ten worst projected relative budget deficits for FY 2012. Budget data is from the Center on...
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