…is why President Obama looked like such a dufus in the debate. Romney took a step to his left… right into Obama’s policy space. Where does one go to gain…

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Friday said that President Barack Obama’s call to hire more police, firefighters and teachers proved that he didn’t “get the message” from Republican…

…of the appropriate policies reveals a split with the other members of the governing “troika,” the European Commission (EC) and the European Central Bank (ECB), which have emphasized short-term fiscal…

The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition is the EU equivalent of the U.S. Department of Justice Anti-trust Division plus units for controlling domestic subsidies to industry. According to a new…

…is growing and legislatures are beginning to notice. Here in the US, President Obama’s second inauguration speech acknowledged the necessity of cooperative approaches to the dire problems we face today….

The case is Federal Trade Commission v. Watson Pharmaceuticals et al, No. 12-416. Via the New York Times comes this note: Last year, for the third time since 2003, the…

…year just ended, while spending was 22.4 percent.) His targets wouldn’t reduce the deficit, he wrote, but they would maintain a stable ratio of debt to output. It was the…

…aforethought. A common narrative among the left is that the Social Security Trust Funds were established after the Greenspan Commission in 1983 to one) pre-fund Boomer retirement and/or two) provide…

…that were imposed by the Greenspan Commission nearly 30 years ago and which are still coming in. The former is estimated to reduce cost of living increases by about 0.3%…

…criminally incompetent. * You may want to read my posts on the Delta Works and Delta Commission, which addressed these dangers in the past and for the future, respectively. Read…