Blog A Prize Al Gore Didn’t Win By: Iain Murray 10/17/2007 He didn’t win the Eleanor Roosevelt prize this year. But somebody equally worthy did.
Blog Deval Patrick’s Role in the Mortgage Crisis By: Hans Bader 10/17/2007 Mortgage lenders face a Hobson’s Choice. When a lender doesn’t provide mortgage loans to people in high-crime areas with high default rates, that’s considered racist…
Blog When Everything Is A Crime By: Hans Bader 10/17/2007 At Slate, Tim Wu explores how the federal criminal code has become so vast that almost anyone can be prosecuted for violating some obscure…
Blog Anti-Market Bias or Bad Economics? By: Alex Nowrasteh 10/17/2007 Reuters released a story today about Professor Eric Maskin, one of three American economists to receive the Nobel prize for economics. In it…
Blog Imagine By: Lene Johansen 10/17/2007 A world where there’s not enough electricity. This story I found in the Philadelphia Inquirer this weekend is a view into where life will…
Blog Federal Subsidies Created Mortgage Meltdown, and Will Make It Worse By: Hans Bader 10/16/2007 As I explain below, federal meddling will merely delay the mortgage meltdown and make the ultimate implosion of the mortgage industry all the worse.
