EducationCommentary
This College Takes Hard Work Seriously—And Kids Want to Go There
Looking for the biggest bargain in higher education? I think I found it in this rural Missouri town, 40 miles south of Springfield, nestled in… Read More
EducationCommentary
Looking for the biggest bargain in higher education? I think I found it in this rural Missouri town, 40 miles south of Springfield, nestled in… Read More
EconomyAnalysis
The Congressional Budget Office reported that the budget deficit is falling rapidly from its trillion-dollar-plus Rocky Mountain highs during President Obama’s first term. I estimate… Read More
EnergyAnalysis
President Obama sounded a lot like Jimmy Carter when he released his doomsday report on global warming, er, climate change. It was 34 years ago… Read More
There was more bad news for workers’ paychecks in the recent April jobs report. Wages and salaries were flat. No raise at all – not… Read More
In public policy, bad ideas — no matter how many times they have been discredited — never completely go away. They seem to pop up… Read More
Only a few weeks after President Obama’s controversial decision to delay the building of the Keystone XL pipeline, the Obama administration is expected in the… Read More
Everyone knows how you diplomatically break up a romantic relationship that has come to an end. The problem, you say to the one you’re splitting… Read More
What happens to an economy when you do just about everything wrong? Say you spend $830 billion on a stimulus stuffed with make-work government-jobs programs… Read More
The Bureau of Economic Analysis released its first report for GDP growth in the first quarter of 2014 today. It showed the economy grew at… Read More
In public policy, bad ideas—no matter how many times they have been discredited—never completely go away. They seem to pop up over and over. Enter… Read More