…too powerful. …Norman J. Ornstein, a congressional expert at the American Enterprise Institute, has a harsher assessment. “This Congress doesn’t see itself as an independent branch that might include criticizing…

…to pull back,” said Grace-Marie Turner, a health policy analyst and president of the conservative Galen Institute. An extreme version of Option Six would be to have no Federal assistance…

…Robert Hartwig, chief economist at the Insurance Information Institute, says the MACRO securities may be the best — and only — way homeowners can protect the value of their homes….

…Mark Schmitt. Mark’s background is policy and politics. He is the Director of Policy and Research at the Open Society Institute. He formerly was a speechwriter and policy director for…

…same arguments today. Not yet known is whether the Discovery Institute will add The Poor Man’s paradox to its catalog of things so complex and unfathomable that evolution must be…

…Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP). In the piece, the 89-year-old professor emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who largely invented much of modern-day economics, questions whether rising skills in China…

…early next year. Administration officials are sounding out Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor James Poterba — an expert on Social Security and tax matters — to take Mankiw’s slot. …Friedman’s…

John Taylor, the Treasury Undersecretary of Treasury for International Affairs, delivered an address on Policy Challenges of Global Payment Imbalances at the American Enterprise Institute yesterday. I learned about this…

…Bush’s plan to institute a “national marketplace in health insurance,” for example, is more a threat than a promise. The point is to prevent regulation of insurance by the states….

The Effects of Replacing Most Federal Taxes with a National Sales Tax A State-by-State Distributional Analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy begins by quoting President Bush: You…