Clean air….hot air
Read my latest Oxford University Press blog post on the GOP presidential candidates and environmental regulation.
Barack Obama
A Blatant Misuse of History
Writing nearly 40 years ago, historian Ernest R. May warned of the dangers of misusing history for policy purposes. May was primarily concerned that policy makers drew the wrong lessons from the past. In their opinion piece in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, Glenn Hubbard, dean of Columbia Business School and an advisor to Mitt Romney, … Read more
Don’t blame the messenger
In case you have been asleep for the last couple of days, the sovereign debt rating of the United States was downgraded on Friday has been downgraded by the Standard and Poor’s (S&P) from AAA to AA+. This has not made S&P too popular in some quarters, particularly in the US government. President Obama and … Read more