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Stealth CEO Compensation and Stock Options

…= 4%; and (d) dividend yield. The Economic Research Institute provides us with a Black-Scholes calculator, which returns a value equal to $3.194 per option under these assumptions. Our attempt…

Buckley v. Kristol on Iraq

Institute. Mr. Reuel Marc Gerecht backed the American intervention. He now speaks of the bombing of the especially sacred Shiite mosque in Samara and what that has precipitated in the…

Moving to a Single-Payer System

…costs for problems that are more seriously developed. A study by the Institute of Medicine estimates that providing health insurance to the uninsured would save perhaps $130bn by replacing expensive…

NRO Monetary Economics: Seven-Footers Are Always Tall

…other formerly socialist nations will continue to grow It seems that some folks at the American Enterprise Institute aren’t aware of the fact that the Chinese government is adopting market…

Cheney: 51 Lies is Not That Many

…course, come from politicians who actually voted in favor of authorizing force against Saddam Hussein,” Cheney told the Frontiers of Freedom Institute, a conservative policy group. For Cheney to suggest…

Index the Minimum Wage at $6.50

…a short summary of the arguments for and against increasing the real value of the minimum wage. The Economic Policy Institute has a nice issues guide, which has all sorts…