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Last Thursday and Friday were the inspiration for my colunm in today's Roll Call. Like Wall Street, Budget Policymakers Need CertaintyNov. 3, 2009 By Stan CollenderRoll Call Contributing Writer Wall Street, which supposedly hates uncertainty, was clearly unhappy late last week...
The Obama administration has lately been touting the 640,329 jobs created or saved by the stimulus bill. (Full report here.) I am always amused by this degree of precision in any sort of economic calculation because it implies a degree of accuracy that is problematic at best...
A new report from the National Academy of Social Insurance looks at a broad range of options for reducing Social Security's costs, increasing its revenues, and improving benefits. Here is the summary. REPORT: Fixing Social Security: Adequate Benefits, Adequate Financing Virginia P...
My media-related question of the week: At a time when whole sections of some newspapers are disappearing, why is any space devoted to publishing letters to the editor? I used to at least glance at the LTEs, and I have written them for clients...
The Wall Street Journal should be so ashamed of this that it should voluntarily print not just a correction but also an apology...
A friend pointed me tothis column by Peggy Noonan in last week's WSJ, "We're Governed by Callous Children." I think she is right in her main point about a disheartened leadership class in business and a mindless leadership class in government...
Full disclosure: This is a review of Bruce Bartlett's latest book. I know Bruce well and consider him to be a friend. He's also one of the bloggers here at Capital Gains and Games. I told Bruce I would be writing a review but not what it was going to say...
http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/29/depression-recession-gdp-imf-milton-friedman-opinions-columnists-bruce-bartlett.htmlNotationsThe Great Depression and the Great RecessionMore alike than everyone thinks. Bruce Bartlett, 10.30.09 Eighty years ago this week, the stock market crashed...
My friend Clive Crook says in his latest National Journal column that the federal budget process has to be changed to deal with the looming fiscal crisis in the U.S...
Namely, another reason to think that no company has any business offering a defined benefit pension plan or that the government hasno capacity for effectively regulating them. Read it and weep, the sad and protractedstory of G.M. and Delphi...
October 28, 2009, 9:48 am Bruce Bartlett Answers Your Questions By Catherine Rampell On Monday we asked you to submit questions for Bruce Bartlett, an adviser for Presidents Reagan and George H.W...
According to a new study, Amtrak lost $462 per passenger on its route from New Orleans to Los Angeles and $193 per passenger on its route from Chicago toSan Francisco in 2008. In each case I found a variety of airline flights for just over $100 on these routes...
For the record, I've known Norm Ornstein for years, he made the initial contact for me at Roll Call and so is at least partially responsible for my column being published, and my Beautiful and Talented Wife (The BTW) was a student of his at Catholic University...
How did I not know about this? The Prisoner is being remade on AMC and will debut on November 15. As I said when the original Number Six, Patrick McGoohan, died, The Prisoner was one of my favorite television shows of all time...
Pete on April 5: "...the Boston Red Sox have the edge on the New York Yankees for the World Series." Stan on April 5: "...I have even higher-than-usual hopes about the Yankees..."
