Would You Trust a Randian Banker?

Conservatives give a lot of deference to the opinions of business leaders and other 'job creators'. The operating assumption is that their criticisms of White House policies are accurate and well informed. What if this assumption is largely off-base? Consider this roundtable hosted on CNBC …

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Written by Noah Kristula-Green on Monday December 5, 2011

Real Policy isn't Done Through Taxes

David Frum is right to attack the growing Republican orthodoxy that "nothing is wrong with this country that cannot be solved by abolishing the capital gains tax." He should take the argument a little further: a fixation on taxes above everything else--regulatory policy and excellence in …

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Written by Eli Lehrer on Wednesday November 2, 2011

'Democracy Denied' is the Guide to Fighting Over-Regulation

Phil Kerpen’s  Democracy Denied ($24.95 in hardcopy; $9.99 for Kindle) Is a none-too-long book that, if widely read (which it deserves to be) would provide something that’s absent from today’s politics: a coherent and useful agenda for the Tea Party and its fellow travelers. Kerpen’s manifesto-l…

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Written by Eli Lehrer on Thursday October 13, 2011

At Least He Has a Job

Daniel Alexandre Protoraro has an awful summer job .  But at least he has a job. His American counterpart might not. Canada’s unemployment rate is 7.4 percent (it would be 6.2% if calculated with the American method)  America's is 9.2 percent. And Protoraro’s own story, provides a case study as to …

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Written by Eli Lehrer on Sunday August 21, 2011

The GOP's (Quiet) Wall Street Reg Rollback

Republican efforts to fix Dodd-Frank are a model for dealing with Obamacare: instead of grandstanding, the GOP is offering real, practical reforms. Republicans’ efforts to change the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation should  offer the party a model for how it should deal with President …

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Written by Eli Lehrer on Thursday March 17, 2011

New Obama Appointee Targets the SEC

As President Obama gears up to increase regulation of the financial markets, he may face opposition from an unlikely source: his own appointee to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Cass Sunstein. As President Obama gears up to increase regulation of the financial markets, he …

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Written by Tim Mak on Thursday September 17, 2009