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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 12, 2011 59 Comments
The more I see Rick Perry in action the more I like him, but the more I get the feeling that he’s not up to the task of defeating Romney, much less Obama.  I’m not writing him off, at all, but he has to play...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 07, 2011 6 Comments
This is the second time this week a reader has e-mailed me referencing one of my early blog posts, the first being “I still remember your ‘death to the Kulaks’ post from a while back!” Thanks to a reader from Seattle who e-mailed me last...

Posted by Matthew Knee on October 05, 2011 2 Comments
Professor Jacobson and Andrew Breitbart’s recent coverage of anti-Semitic incidents at the Occupy Wall Street protests were no surprise to me.  A top notch study by political scientists Neil Malhotra and Yotam Margalit back in 2009 found that triggering anti-semitic concepts increased support for anti-business...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on September 29, 2011 4 Comments
Chavez is on his deathbed. (But, of course, the state is in denial.) I don’t care much at all for Francis Fukuyama, but his 2006 write-up on Chávez’s ascent in WaPo was pretty good. Or, at least, clear: Latin America has indeed witnessed a turn...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 21, 2011 4 Comments
It’s all about the natural gas and Erdogan’s ego: Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan described offshore gas drilling by estranged ally Israel and Cyprus as “madness” on Wednesday, raising the stakes in a confrontation over potentially huge deposits in the eastern Mediterranean…. “The Greek Cypriot...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on September 19, 2011 11 Comments
one op-ed today, I hope it is Mary O’Grady’s column in the Wall Street Journal: “Big Labor’s Yanqui Imperialism.” On the face of it, the National Labor Relations Board’s effort to block a new Boeing plant slated for the right-to-work state of South Carolina seems...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on September 16, 2011 10 Comments
A committee of economists have proposed “the creation of an International Monetary Policy Committee composed of representatives of major central banks that will report regularly to world leaders on the aggregate consequences of individual central bank policies.” And who will run this? Why, a committee...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on September 06, 2011 10 Comments
from overseas to the U.S.A. Good afternoon, all! I’m back from my summer at The Wall Street Journal Europe where I interned as a Bartley Fellow. I’m now in my senior year at Cornell & I will try to post here as much as I can...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 06, 2011 5 Comments
You know all about Rhode Island’s pension and other fiscal problems stemming from an out-of-control public sector which made promises which could be kept only under the most rosy of scenarios, in a state almost completely controlled by unions: Is Rhode Island Our Future Under...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 26, 2011 18 Comments
Ben Bernanke gave a very lengthy answer to the question “why has the recovery from the crisis been so slow and erratic?,” but Bernanke danced around the obvious: Why has the recovery from the crisis been so slow and erratic? Historically, recessions have typically sowed the seeds of their own...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 23, 2011 11 Comments
I was right when I said Republicans should take the debt deal, as bad as it was, because otherwise any negative consequences would provide Obama an excuse for his own failures. And I was right. Polling in the three weeks since the deal was announced...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 05, 2011 19 Comments
This is a very curious development, via The Wall Street Journal: Bank of New York Mellon Corp. on Thursday took the extraordinary step of telling large clients it will charge them to hold cash. The unusual move means some U.S. depositors will have to pay...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 02, 2011 2 Comments
Roger Cohen of The NY Times and other journalists were smitten with the Egyptian revolution, and denounced warnings of what lurked below the surface: (February 3, 2011)  Already we hear the predictable warnings from Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu: This could be Iran 1979, a revolution...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 02, 2011 6 Comments
If you have been hanging around here, you would be aware of the problems of Central Falls, RI, about which I’ve been posting since March. So it will come as no surprise that Central Falls, weighed down by unsustainable union contracts and pension costs made...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 26, 2011 36 Comments
Because they have no where to go, and will hold their noses, lean forward, and give the lever a pull (or more likely, push a button). So I discount the ultimate importance of this report that Obama is losing his base: With the 2012 presidential...
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