Blog A Fairer Alternative to a No-Strings Bailout? By: Hans Bader 01/27/2008 Late last year, the Treasury Secretary orchestrated a bailout of some subprime borrowers with adjustable-rate mortgages. Under it, their interest rates, which are slated…
Blog Social Engineering Abroad: Failure Squared By: Doug Bandow 01/27/2008 There are no easy answers to some problems. Such as failed and quasi-failed states around the world. But one thing that we know is that…
Blog Will adding another $150 billion to the deficit be good for the country? By: Lene Johansen 01/27/2008 Stimulus package or more deficit spending? I tend to agree with Prof. Samwick in his commentary on “Marketplace” last Friday: It is deficit spending.
Blog Sweet lawsuit, or not… By: Lene Johansen 01/27/2008 It seems the anti-biotechnology lobby is bringing out the big guns to prevent the new Roundup Ready sugar beet to have its first commercial growing…
Blog Warmer climate for non-dogmatic climate research in Norwegian media By: Lene Johansen 01/27/2008 The global temperature has been stable since 1998 according to Ole Humlum at the University of Oslo. In the largest paper in Norway, he…
Blog Suharto RIP By: Ivan Osorio 01/27/2008 Former Indonesian dictator Suharto passed away today. I’m not going to comment on his legacy here, but simply note that for a dictator, he…
