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June 2012

June 13, 2012

The right for monks to sell caskets

One of the medieval "works of mercy" is burying the dead. So the Benedicting monks...

June 11, 2012

Obama: “The private sector is doing fine”

President Obama said something that will be a much-replayed sound-bite in the presidential race: Laying...

June 11, 2012

Mining “big data”

An interesting article by Ariana Eunjung Cha on how financiers, politicians, and researchers are mining...

June 04, 2012

“Maintaining stability” in China

Dissident Yu Jie on what is going on in China: Contrary to myths and assumptions,...

May 2012

May 22, 2012

To Bain, or not to Bain?

Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, is a rising star in the Democratic...

May 21, 2012

Austerity vs. the Obama approach

Europeans are torn about the best approach to fix their messed-up economies: austerity (cutting government...

May 18, 2012

Interstate taxing

Say you get a good job in the environs of our nation's capital. (The region...

May 10, 2012

Europe rejects austerity–how about the USA?

The countries of the European Union are voting out the leaders who had been pushing...

May 09, 2012

Energy boom & revival of manufacturing in our future?

David Ignatius brings up what could be heralds of good economic prospects ahead. (Or is...

April 2012

April 18, 2012

Obama’s plan to bring down gas prices

Does our president understand economics? Facing heat for high gasoline prices, President Obama tried to...

April 03, 2012

Luther and the Euro crisis

From Lutheranism to its depths to Lutheranism in its shallows. . . The BBC, of...

March 2012

March 28, 2012

Cultural engagement requires the Sacrament

Peter Leithhart, a Reformed pastor and theologian, says that what evangelicals need if they are...

March 21, 2012

Pepsi’s use of aborted fetal cells

I had assumed this was just a wild rumor, but Pepsi really is using the...

March 20, 2012

Towards the end of cash

Sweden was the first country to introduce paper banknotes, back in 1661. And now it...

March 12, 2012

Foreclosing on churches

The housing market woes are having a big impact also on houses of worship, as...

February 2012

February 21, 2012

Taxmageddon

What awaits us, no matter who wins the elections: On Dec. 31, the George W....

February 20, 2012

Forcing a company to give away a product for free

Charles Krauthammer points out yet another problem with President Obama's contraceptive mandate compromise: The president...

February 17, 2012

Iatrogenic government.

I quote this column on rent control because in it George Will teaches us a...

February 03, 2012

Income vs. consumption

More perspective on the economy from James Q. Wilson: Poverty in America is certainly a...

January 2012

January 31, 2012

Who are the 1%?

Who are those 1% of the wealthiest Americans who allegedly are oppressing the rest of...

January 27, 2012

Inflation remains low–thanks to Bernanke?

One of the Republican candidate's favorite whipping boys is Ben Bernanke, head of the Federal...

January 20, 2012

Obama stops oil pipeline

President Obama said "no" to the pipeline that would transport Canadian oil from that country's...

January 13, 2012

College majors & unemployment

Colleges are getting blamed for turning out so many unemployable graduates with "impractical degrees" in...

January 12, 2012

Anti-business Republicans

The line of attack on Romney from the rest of the Republican field (except for...

January 11, 2012

Information’s dependence on advertising

Ezra Klein points out that in the 19th century the different newspapers were tied to...

January 09, 2012

Government debt now greater than the whole economy

Factoid buried in a Washington Post graph caption: The federal debt of the United States...

January 03, 2012

From giveaway to takeaway

Economy columnist Robert Samuelson sees our government having to transition from a "giveaway" mode, which...

January 01, 2012

We have become barren

Mark Steyn, connecting the birth of John the Baptist to the West's current demographic and...

December 2011

December 22, 2011

Vocation & economic productivity

Greg Forster, in the context of a discussion about Europe's economic woes, makes some fascinating...

December 15, 2011

The end of the malls?

Yes, the shopping malls are packed this time of year. But hardly any are being...