Jonathan Laing offers Barron’s readers a disturbing picture of China’s latest economic developments. U.S. INVESTORS SHOULDN’T put too much stock in the China turnaround story. The government is notorious for…
View in your browser. When Pew Charitable Trusts published its big 2014 report touting solar energy’s rise in North Carolina, they probably didn’t know that every single page in their…
This Investor’s Business Daily editorial makes the connection: Keynesian theory. Specifically, the ridiculous notion that prosperity comes from government money creation and spending rather than allowing millions of individuals and…
Alex Adrianson highlights for the Heritage Foundation’s “Insider Online” blog interesting information about the impact of government intervention on college costs. Matthew Ladner asks: “Do you think it might be…
From Business Week: The Harrah’s casino in Tunica, Miss., features a spa, three pools, a golf course, and a shooting range. But there’s one thing the 18-year-old facility, the largest…
So argues David Stockman in this piece. Bubbles happen when governments bring about widespread malinvestment — investments in buildings, factories, universities, and so on — that cannot be sustained given…
Thomas Donlan devotes his latest Barron’s editorial commentary to the growing problem of college debt. College graduates are more likely to be working, to express job satisfaction, to have health…
Obama cheerleaders have been whooping it up over the supposed recovery of the housing market, but David Stockman argues persuasively in this piece that it’s just another federal government induced…
View in your browser. Note: The text of this newsletter has changed. Energy issues have been in the headlines recently, and this newsletter compiles them. Here’s a question to think…
In a six-page feature titled “Colleges At Risk,” the latest Forbes magazine offers insight into financial struggles common to many American colleges and universities. The week of June 24 was…
There’s plenty of good scholarship about the causes of the housing boom and bust that triggered our latest economic woes — Thomas Sowell has a good book on the topic,…
Today’s Wall Street Journal has an excellent letter in reply to a recent column by Professor John Taylor on the Fed’s policy. Government borrowing costs are being kept down (for…