Yearly Archives: 2012

Archive of posts published in the specified Year

The Third Wave of Layoffs

Nov. 11, 2012

My Post in American Thinker Blog, Hoping for Change, 11/9/12 Excerpt: The large public companies and the stock market they occupy will likely continue to do OK for two reasons. There is no other place to go with money. Money market funds and treasuries

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Policies Have Consequences Too

Nov. 11, 2012

The GOP lost because they are on the wrong side of the issues valued by single women, youth, and Hispanics. I get it. But the Democratic victory still leaves us with a disastrous economic policy. And now they have the

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Reaping and Sowing

Nov. 10, 2012

I am still undecided if the Republican’s problem is standing for everything and anything or standing for nothing. The GOP loses Hispanic voters and pro choice voters yet abortion is illegal in Mexico. And Blacks largely oppose gay marriage.

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GOP Reality and Denial

Nov. 09, 2012

When I was visiting my daughter at the University of Michigan in the People’s Republic of Ann Arbor I was having a drink with an old friend who runs the restaurant, Mercy’s (his wife’s name) in the Bell Tower Hotel.

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Economic Liberty

Nov. 09, 2012

While the Democrats claim to protect the personal liberties of Americans they are less protective of our economic liberties. By economic liberties I mean the right to own and manage wealth producing assets with minimal interference from the government. This interference may come in the

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Weak Links Lose Elections

Nov. 08, 2012

Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock beat longtime GOP Senator Richard Lugar in the primary. Lugar was first elected to the Senate in 1976. Then Mourdock said during a debate “even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that

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The Party of Old White Men

Nov. 07, 2012

Intrade was vindicated as once again being a better predictor of the outcome than the pollsters. I predicted that Obama would lose because he would carry women, the youth and the Hispanics but in lesser numbers than in 2008. I was clearly

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The Truth Has Become a Revolutionary Act

Nov. 06, 2012

Sarah Hoyt writes in her blog According to Hoyt, We’ve Come to the End of Cake, 11/5/12. Excerpts: Collectively we forgot that our wealth was finite and that everything we did meant something else didn’t get done. We empowered tremendous

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Exhausting Creative Potential

Nov. 06, 2012

George Gilder writes Unleash the Mind in National Review. It is from his soon to be released update of his classic Wealth and Poverty. It is not the enlargement of incentives and rewards that generates growth and progress, profits and capital gains

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When Opportunity is Turned into Entitlement

Nov. 05, 2012

Sheldon G. Adelson writes in the Wall Street Journal, I Didn’t Leave the Democrats. They Left Me There is an anti-Israel movement among the rank and file, and the party no longer appears to value self-reliance, charity and accountability. 11/4/12 Excerpts: My

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Restraining Political Extremism

Nov. 05, 2012

Professor John Cochrane writes in his blog The Grumpy Economist, Why the electoral college is a great idea, 11/4/12 Excerpts: Suppose we had a popular vote instead. Now, instead of fighting for 51% of Ohio, President Obama could instead try to

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Blocking the Only Solution

Nov. 03, 2012

John Cochrane writes in his blog, The Grumpy Economist, Debate with Goolsbee, 11/1/12. Excerpts: And, by what economics is the central key to escaping sclerotic growth that we should sharply raise marginal tax rates on investment and business formation? When, ever, has

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Complex Science, Simpleminded Politics

Nov. 03, 2012

The Editors of the National Review write Sandy and Climate Change, 11/3:/12. Excerpt: There were a great many institutional failures that made Sandy worse than it had to be. In retrospect, Mayor Bloomberg should perhaps have been worried more about

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The Real Work of Government

Nov. 03, 2012

Mark Steyn writes in The National Review Online, A Tale of Two Crisis, 11/2/12. Excerpts: He appeared in New Jersey wearing a bomber jacket rather than a suit to demonstrate that when the going gets tough the tough get out

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Distribution of World’s Jews

Nov. 03, 2012

Interesting data on where the Jews in the world are. World Jewish Population The worldwide Jewish population is 13.3 million Jews. Jewish population growth worldwide is close to zero percent. From 2000 to 2001 it rose 0.3%, compared to worldwide

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Victims of Benghazi

Nov. 02, 2012

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Does Failure Deserve a Second Chance?

Nov. 01, 2012

David Malpass writes in The Wall Street Journal, Economic Signals Point to a 2013 Recession, 09/28/12 Excerpt: Data released this week by the Commerce Department waved bright red recession flags—orders for durable goods fell 13.2% in August and inflation-adjusted personal

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The Post Industrial Feudal Economy

Nov. 01, 2012

Walter Russel mead writes in The American Interest, Beyond Blue 5: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, 2/20/12: Excerpts: Currently, the American legal and regulatory system is set up to bind as many people to employers as possible. The government wants you to

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Collusive Capitalism

Oct. 27, 2012

Charles Murray writes in the Review section of the weekend Wall Street Journal, July 28-29/12, Why Capitalism Has an Image Problem. Excerpt: Two important changes in objective conditions have contributed to this change in mood. One is the rise of collusive

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