Ted Cruz on the 10th Amendment, the budget, and his run for Senate.
Grover Norquist discusses the budget and his feud with Senator Coburn.
Barack Obama began his presidency with one of the most ambitious programs of change in history — with major initiatives in defense, foreign affairs, economic recovery, health care, the environment, and more. Now that the administration is gearing up for its next campaign, politicians and pundits are assessing what the President has accomplished. It may be equally important, however, to look at how the Obama team has gone about managing its change agenda. read »
Today I'm pretending I'm a bureaucrat, and I've decided you shouldn't do backflips on a pogo stick. Also, no using a pogo stick on a treadmill; and while we're at it, no pogo-jumping with Q-Tips in your ears, which I reckon happens from time to time to Unilever's consternation. read »
The French intellectual Guy Sorman has a longish piece in the Spring 2011 City Journal entitled “Japan, After March 11.” The caption is “The country, resilient as ever, remains Asia’s true power.” Sorman is considered a “classical liberal” thinker, and from the themes of his two most recent books--The Empire of Lies—The Truth About China in the Twenty-First Century (2006) and Economics Does Not Lie—A Defense of the Free Market in a Time of Crisis (2008)—I am sure that we would agree on a lot of[...] read »
This morning in China, we learned that the local trade surplus widened last month to $11.4 billion. That’s higher than any of the guesses that came from Wall Street. Exports for the red nation surged to a record high. read »
Will over half the voters continue to give the president a thumbs up in the weeks ahead?
Which lenders should you invest in to play fast-growing economies?