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How Healthy Is New York City's Economy?
Nicole Gelinas NYT Room For Debate, 8-31-10

New York is not experiencing recovery. Rather, it’s biding its time during a suspension of reality, courtesy of Congress, the Federal Reserve, and Presidents Obama and Bush. But a day of reckoning delayed is not a day of reckoning avoided.

Another Labor Day, Little Labor Cheer
Diana Furchtgott-Roth RealClearMarkets.com, 9-02-10

Another Labor Day is about to arrive, and once again, organized labor in the United States has little to cheer about.

Eurocrash
Nicole Gelinas City Journal, Summer 2010

Germany, France, and 14 other European nations have spent a decade ensconced in monetary union. But Europe might have been better off if its nations had continued to compete on currency.

Litigating Over The Environment Makes Big Bucks For Trial Lawyers
James R. Copland Washington Examiner, 9-01-10

America's litigation industry--the aggressive class action and mass tort lawyers who we at the Manhattan Institute have dubbed Trial Lawyers, Inc.--are always seeking new products to expand their bottom line.

How Corrupt Is the Muni-Bond Business?
Steven Malanga RealClearMarkets.com, 9-01-10

When the Securities and Exchange Commission charged New Jersey with fraud last month for failing to disclose certain fiscal dealings to bond buyers, observers were quick to note that this might be the first of several actions from the agency, which has established a new, 30-person unit to pursue corruption in municipal finance.

It's a Good Time to Index Taxes On Capital
Josh Barro RealClearMarkets.com, 8-31-10

The Modeled Behavior blog has been taking nominations for the 4% Club, which it describes as "An elite group of economists, pundits, and politicians" who want the Federal Reserve to raise its inflation target from 2%.

Wind Energy Gets Huge Subsidies. So Where Are The CO2 Reductions?
Robert Bryce Energy Tribune, 8-27-10 (This story is an extended version of an article that appeared in the Wall Street Journal on 8-24-10)

Over the last few years, the wind industry has achieved remarkable growth largely due to the industry’s claim that using more wind energy will result in major reductions in carbon dioxide emissions

Is New York Ungovernable? Certainly Not, and David Paterson Has Helped Show The Way
E.J. McMahon Syracuse Post-Standard, 8-29-10 (This article originally appeared in City Journal)

Is New York state ungovernable? Back in April, Gov. David Paterson seemed to think so. Confounded by the Legislature’s paralysis in the face of a deepening fiscal crisis, the lame-duck governor complained to the Wall Street Journal that New York lacked “a structure that empowers a single leader to get his or her state out of a major conflict.”

Something to Love Among the Ruins
David Watkin City Journal Online, Summer 2010

This May, the Royal Institute of British Architects mounted a remarkable exhibition, Three Classicists.

Grading Teachers in Los Angeles
Marcus A. Winters City Journal Online, 8-26-10

It’s the start of another school year, and parents everywhere are asking themselves: Is my child’s teacher any good? The Los Angeles Times recently attempted to answer that question for parents.

Ask Unemployed How the Stimulus is Working
Diana Furchtgott-Roth RealClearMarkets.com, 8-26-10

How well is the stimulus working? This week saw disappointing data in durable goods orders and housing, prompting some economists to predict a double dip recession.

Progressives Against Progress
Fred Siegel City Journal, Summer 2010

For the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, American liberals distinguished themselves from conservatives by what Lionel Trilling called “a spiritual orthodoxy of belief in progress.”
 

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