Reading The Reactions To North Korea

December 23, 2011

Varied reactions to Kim Jong Il’s death should remind us which countries are our true friends in the world, and which are not.

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Skewed Priorities: The Climate Lobby’s Call For $100 Billion A Year

December 22, 2011

Poor nations could buy a lot with $100 billion, but not if it is earmarked for climate change rather than more pressing problems.

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Treasury Downgrade: A Shock But No Surprise

August 8, 2011

S&P’s downgrade of Treasury debt was a shock but not a surprise. The move may be a step toward fixing Washington’s finances.

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Bloody Streets And Flying Pigs

August 5, 2011

Tip from an old-timer: If you see blood in the streets, you know what to do. So do it.

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Five Lasting Lessons From The Debt Ceiling Debate

August 2, 2011

Headlines from the debt debate will fade, but what we learned will linger. The financial world is riskier than we realized.

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A Final Touchdown

July 21, 2011

Does the final Shuttle mission mark the end of American leadership in the skies – and should we care?

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Why Does A Penny Cost Nearly 2 Cents?

July 18, 2011

Larry Elkin explores the link between pennies that cost nearly 2 cents and warehouses run like the Hotel California.

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Mixed Reviews At Home But Boffo In Beijing

June 28, 2011

President Obama’s decision to tap America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve is getting mixed reviews at home, but some foreign audiences should be on their feet to applaud. Beijing’s central planners must love the American president’s determination to bring down the price of their imported oil without asking them to touch one drop of their own strategic reserves. Italy’s business and political elite, cut off from their usual supply of light, sweet …

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‘Red Dawn’

April 20, 2011

The 1984 film “Red Dawn” projected our worst Cold War nightmare onto the big screen: Soviet paratroopers, backed by Cuban and Nicaraguan infantry, sweeping across the Great Plains and threatening to destroy the American way of life. It did not matter that the story was ridiculous. The movie could not really explain why the Communists invaded. A brief opening sequence announced that the Soviet grain harvest had failed, and that …

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The ‘Anti-Dumping’ Protection Racket

April 15, 2011

In 2007, Leslie and Jim Thompson, a husband and wife who owned a Georgia-based furniture company, learned they might have to pay a heavy import duty on items they produced in Shanghai. When they looked into the issue, they ended up talking to a high-powered Washington lawyer representing La-Z-Boy and other large furniture manufacturers. He asked them what they could give him to make the problem go away. The couple …

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