Romney Speaks
Immediately upon leaving office and turning turn over the “bully pulpit” of the White House to Barack Obama, former President George W. Bush retreated from public life. Unlike predecessor Bill[...]
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Budgets/Taxes · Economics · FIRE
Hoover Institution Experts: Our Growing Economic Mess
In a recent editorial in The Wall Street Journal, a group of prominent economic experts took the government to task for many of its current poor fiscal and monetary decisions[...]
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Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics · Taxes
Ferrara at Forbes: Obamanomics: Economics For Dummies
[Editor's note: This piece was first published at Forbes.com.] President Obama’s June 14 address in Cleveland presented his foundational economic policy arguments for this fall’s campaign. We will hear those same rhetorical points[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics · Taxes
Ferrara at Forbes.com: Obama’s Perfect Plan For The Economic Decline Of America
[Editor's note: This piece was first published at Forbes.com.] Last week on June 14, President Obama announced his economic plan to finally bring economic recovery and growth to the U.S. in[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics
Peter Ferrara Tells the Truth About Obama’s Spending on The Larry Kudlow Show
Our own Peter Ferrara, senior fellow for entitlement and budget policy at The Heartland Institute, was a guest last Saturday (June 23) on the nationally syndicated Larry Kudlow radio show.[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics
Ferrara at Forbes.com: President Obama Is the Biggest Spender in World History
[Editor's note: This piece was first published at Forbes.com.] The U.S. has never before had a President who thinks so little of the American people that he imagines he can win[...]
Money for Nutting and No Chicks for Free: Obama’s Spending Binge Really Happened
(This essay was first published at The American Spectator. Editor: Half-hearted apologies to Dire Straits for the headline.) Obama campaign operative Rex Nutting surprised a lot of people with an[...]
Me in the Washington Examiner: Nobody’s tax scheme will fix Feds’ spending problems
Thanks to the Washington Examiner for publishing this piece by me in yesterday’s paper. You can read it below: Trying to fill the federal government’s gigantic budget hole with a[...]
Environment/Energy · Politics · Regulation
GOP Responsible for Light Bulb Ban, Other Current Outrages
Ron Arnold, writing at The Washington Examiner, has a column slamming the so-called “light bulb ban” that is phasing out incandescent bulbs in favor of more energy-efficient bulbs — the[...]
An iPad Subsidy for Teens?
As someone tasked with keeping up on research in two arenas — education policy and tech policy — my job always get a lot easier when the issues merge. Sometimes,[...]
Is The Republican Honeymoon Already Over?
Barely a week after the Republicans saw a tidal wave of victories in the midterm elections, members of the GOP establishment are already fighting back against the very policies that[...]
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