by Don Luskin | May 7, 2001 | POLITICS
Just a quick note this morning, to try to illuminate the nature of the cusp at which the markets find themselves. On Thursday the markets made it clear they didn’t want to go higher. And on Friday they made it just as clear they didn’t want to go lower.... by Randall Stross | May 6, 2001 | POLITICS
When eBay, a small Internet auction company based in San Jose, California, sought venture capital, it had to pass an informal test administered by the venture guys before they would consider making an investment: Was there a reasonably good likelihood that the... by Thomas Sowell | May 5, 2001 | POLITICS, Price Controls
It was only a passing news item when the financial information service Standard & Poor’s lowered the rating it gave to bonds issued by the state of California. But it has big implications and it also shows the big difference between economics and politics.... by Alan Luber | May 5, 2001 | POLITICS
I would like to begin today’s column tangentially, by admitting to the world that I did something incredibly stupid yesterdaythis past Tuesday Allow me to explain. There is a delightful yiddish phrase, kayn ein hora (pronounced “kinna herra” or... by Larry Elder | May 4, 2001 | POLITICS
“Can I please have some more arsenic in my water, Mommy? More salmonella in my cheeseburger, please.” So begins a Democratic National Committee commercial attacking George W. Bush’s policy on arsenic levels in water. In the commercial, a cute little... by Don Luskin | May 4, 2001 | POLITICS
Sometimes market moves begin and end with perfectly matched catalysts — bookends, if you will. It’s strange, but a single piece of news can first ignite a rally, and then later virtually the same news can extinguish it. And that’s what just happened... by Dr Michael Hurd | May 3, 2001 | Healthcare
As a health care provider, here is my proposal for a patient bill of rights: 1. The right to enter voluntary, contractual relationships with doctors — without paternalistic interference on the part of federal and state governments. For example: laws mandating... by Walter Williams | May 3, 2001 | Education, POLITICS
If we had to single out one American institution that stands at the forefront of modern-day racial discrimination, deception and contempt for fundamental principles of liberty, it would be America’s universities. Under the euphemisms of affirmative action,... by James Frogue | May 3, 2001 | POLITICS
It may sound healthy, this debate we’re hearing in Washington over a “Patients’ Bill of Rights.” But it’s like listening to prisoners clamor for better food and more yard time. No matter what the outcome, they’re still prisoners....
