Where Milton Friedman Was Wrong
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He wasn't wrong about much, but there's that one thing that bugs this Fool ...
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The United States is facing the possibility of a severe economic correction. Yet most of the causes of such a correction are, for the most part, being completely ignored in preference to partisan bickering. It is the proverbial elephant in the living room - except it is not just one, but several elephants that everyone is doing their best to ignore. While the likelihood that any of these issues could result in disaster is low, these are issues worth taking the time to discuss.
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According to Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve chairman, the high amount of private debt being carried by Americans is not so scary because most people can &quot;calibrate their borrowing and spending to minimize financial difficulties.
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Great American author, bankrupt by 59. Learn from his mistakes.
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When something right can do you wrong.
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In a June 12 story about the rising influence of pro-Taliban militants in the city of Tank in northwestern Pakistan, The Associated Press erroneously referred to Islamic fundamentalist courts. The courts have been set up in neighboring tribal regions, not in Tank.
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Resolved: The US government should fund primary and secondary education in the United States. In the early 1970s, high school debating teams sparred on this issue, and James M. Poterba, then a member of the debating team at Pennsbury High School in Fairless Hills, Pa., started thinking about tax policy and its impact.
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A. Austria is not correct. B. Netherlands is not correct. C. Canada is correct. D. Philippines is not correct.
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Wall Street's right, but for the wrong reason.
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In September 1996, Alan Greenspan was fixated on a statistic neglected by most economic forecasters. It was service-sector worker productivity, a measure of how much an employee could produce in an hour.
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Why we're wrong to assume that Larry Craig and other fallen moralizers are hypocrites
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The blogosphere erupted with arguments questioning global warming after an error was found in the annual estimate of the average temperature in the United States.
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More people have heard of Kinky Friedman than Benny Friedman, but in a week that may all change.
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Analysis: Socialist Strauss-Kahn is a widely admired economic manager. Better to have him in Washington than heading up the opposition in Paris
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The fast food giant proves last month's doubters wrong.
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Is Economic Stimulation the Cause, not the Cure?
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Here is the coverage in The New York Times and the New York Law Journal about the denial of United for Peace and Justice's Sunday rally in Central Park (United for Peace and Justice v. Bloomberg, 111893/04), and here is what NY Supreme Court1 Justice Silbermann said:      [...] the evidence established that the department's determination was based on entirely content-neutral factors, to wit: that the Great Lawn2 was not an appropriate venue for a demonstration of this magnitude.     [...]  The Parks Department appropriately applied content-neutral regulations while leaving plaintiff with a reasonable alternate site.