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Italy’s Greatest Economic Threat: Italian Politicians

  • By: Matthew Melchiorre
  • 10/29/2012

Italian ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi told news sources last week that his party -- Popolo della Libertà -- would soon decide whether or not to…

Labor and Employment

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Southern European Bailouts Must Focus On Reform

  • By: Matthew Melchiorre
  • 10/18/2012

As European leaders meet in Brussels this week for a summit on the future of European integration, bailouts for the south will be heavy on…

Subsidies and Bailouts

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Jobless Youth: Southern Europe’s Ticking Time Bomb

  • By: Matthew Melchiorre
  • 10/11/2012

Forget austerity and bailouts. Southern Europe has an even bigger problem: a glut of unemployed young people. If this trend continues, workforces will regress in…

Labor and Employment

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Printing Money Is Not A Main Street Policy

  • By: Matthew Melchiorre
  • 10/11/2012

If it doesn’t work, then try, try, and try again. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is taking this expression to heart with a third round…

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The Real Spanish Bank Bailout Cost: 113 Billion Euro

  • By: Matthew Melchiorre
  • 10/01/2012

Don’t be fooled by the optimism overflowing from the stress test of Spain’s banking system released on Friday. American Consultancy Oliver Wyman, which performed the…

Subsidies and Bailouts

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State Capitalism Or Corporatism? Italy’s Carmaker Conundrum

  • By: Matthew Melchiorre
  • 09/23/2012

Italy’s iconic car manufacturer, Fiat, announced Saturday its plans to keep its production base in Italy after months of threatening to leave for more…

Labor and Employment

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The European Central Bank’s Losing Game Of Chicken

  • By: Matthew Melchiorre
  • 09/21/2012

European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi is losing a game of chicken with the Euro Area’s distressed peripheral countries. Earlier this month, Draghi announced…

Subsidies and Bailouts

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Europe’s Central Bankers Are Running Out Of Road

  • By: Matthew Melchiorre
  • 07/19/2012

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said yesterday  in his testimony to the House Financial Services Committee that Europe is a long way off from having a…

Trade and International

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Italy Kicks the Can on Labor Reform

  • By: Matthew Melchiorre
  • 07/06/2012

Italy continues to put off addressing its most fundamental economic problem: impossibly rigid labor regulation. In this letter to The Wall Street Journal, I explain why…

Labor and Employment

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Bailouts Won’t Save Europe, Only Reform Will

  • By: Matthew Melchiorre
  • 06/22/2012

As European leaders panic over bailouts for Southern Europe, they miss an important reality. Comprehensive structural reform is the only long-term solution for recovery. Perversely, bailouts…

Regulatory Reform

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Central Bankers are Playing a Losing Game

  • By: Matthew Melchiorre
  • 04/30/2012

The supposed economic “recovery” is faltering. The sugar high of freshly printed money from the world’s central banks is beginning to wear off. In…

Trade and International

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Super Mario Hasn’t Saved Italy’s Entrepreneurs

  • By: Matthew Melchiorre
  • 04/24/2012

Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti is full of optimism these days. He has claimed to achieve “historic” reform in Italy’s labor market and to beat…

Labor and Employment

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School Choice Can Temper Climate Curriculum Dogma

  • By: Matthew Melchiorre
  • 03/13/2012

John Stuart Mill once wrote, “There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it…

Energy and Environment

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More Phony Comparisons by American Europhiles

  • By: Matthew Melchiorre
  • 01/25/2012

American Europhiles love to make comparisons between the entire United States and the rich Nordic countries in order to advocate America's "Europeanization." But comparing these…

Trade and International

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Fed’s Plan to De-Mystify Interest Rate Intentions Won’t Induce Recovery

  • By: Matthew Melchiorre
  • 01/11/2012

Here’s a letter I sent to the Wall Street Journal: In “Fed Will Detail Rate Plans, Easing Market Guesswork” (Jan. 4), Mr. Hilsenrath and…

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Boom and Bust Madness: An Empirical Look at the Fed’s Dollar Binge

  • By: Matthew Melchiorre
  • 12/28/2011

Given the Fed’s continued actions to keep interest rates low and its reported plans to keep them that way beyond 2014, now seems a good…

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Bernanke’s Dollar Swap Euro “Stimulus”

  • By: Matthew Melchiorre
  • 12/08/2011

Here’s a letter I sent to The Wall Street Journal: In “Central Banks Take Coordinated Action” (Nov. 30), Mr. Sparshott and Mr. Hilsenrath rightly…

Trade and International

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Ben Bernanke: Most Powerful Man in America?

  • By: Matthew Melchiorre
  • 12/01/2011

Don’t let his short stature and friendly grandpa beard fool you. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has the power to control the money in your…

Trade and International

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What the Super Committee Could Have Learned From Italy

  • By: Matthew Melchiorre
  • 11/28/2011

Entitlement reform. Those words alone make politicians’ ears bleed. Or in the case of Italy, it makes their fists literally fly at one another. I…

Trade and International

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Bombs Don’t Build Economies

  • By: Matthew Melchiorre
  • 11/07/2011

Here’s a letter I sent to the New York Times. To the Editor:  Mr. Krugman is correct in pointing out (Bombs, Bridges and Jobs; Oct.

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Regulation is this Halloween’s Goblin

  • By: Matthew Melchiorre
  • 11/01/2011

Uncle Sam may be the biggest spook to business this Halloween. A new Gallup poll of small business owners shows that “complying with government regulations”…

Regulatory Reform

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Tax-and-Spend is Not a “Jobs” Plan

  • By: Matthew Melchiorre
  • 09/21/2011

After two failed attempts at fiscal “stimulus” since the start of the recession (Bush in 2008 and Obama in 2009), the president wants to try…

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Green Zealots Target Maryland Students

  • By: Matthew Melchiorre
  • 09/01/2011

The Maryland State Board of Education passed a new curriculum requirement on June 21, 2011. Instead of gaining competence in math or science, students…

Energy and Environment

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Keynesian Policy Does Not Create Growth

  • By: Matthew Melchiorre
  • 08/29/2011

Here’s a letter I sent to The New York Times. To the Editor: You write (“The Wrong Idea,” August 19, 2011) that Western leaders…

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“Rules are Rules,” When it Comes to Yard Sales

  • By: Matthew Melchiorre
  • 08/18/2011

The City of Salem, Oregon, is cracking down on yard sales — even if they are a citizen’s last option to pay for expensive…

Regulatory Reform

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Growth Won’t Come From More Government Spending

  • By: Matthew Melchiorre
  • 08/18/2011

Here’s a letter I sent to The New York Times. TO THE EDITOR: You write (“Where Will Growth Come From?,” August 11, 2011) that…

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Obama Ignores even Internal Dissent on Environmentalist Agenda

  • By: Matthew Melchiorre
  • 08/12/2011

President Obama will stop at nothing to pursue his war on coal. He won’t even listen to those within his own administration. His…

Energy and Environment

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In Wake of Financial Woes, Staffers Pack Up and Leave for Hawaii

  • By: Matthew Melchiorre
  • 08/12/2011

Despite their calls for fiscal responsibility, Senate Democrats of the Indian Affairs Committee sent their staffers on a weeklong vacation to Maui. Although the…

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More Social Engineering and Failure from Federal Housing Policy

  • By: Matthew Melchiorre
  • 08/11/2011

Federal vouchers that encourage low-income families to move to the suburbs have caused severe problems in Lancaster, California. The government housing program created in…

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TSA Chatterboxes Not as Friendly as they Seem

  • By: Matthew Melchiorre
  • 08/04/2011

You may get some extra-special attention from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in the near future — but this isn’t just another pat-down or…

Privacy and Cybersecurity

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