Archive - December 2005 - November 2005 - October 2005 - September 2005 - August 2005

Friday, February 10

• Where are the manufacturing jobs going? (National Ass’n of Manufacturers)
• Traffic tax lacks support, poll says (Wash. Times)
• Stop worrying about the trade deficit (TCS)
• Strong demand greets return of the long bond (Wash. Post)
• Toyota hopes full-size truck steals Big Three sales (El Paso Times)
• Oil prices edge lower on rising US energy stockpiles (AFX News)
• Low-fat diet myth busted (Fox News)

Thursday, February 9

• The Big Easy? Now it’s limbo land (Wash Post)
• Greenspan upbeat on economy at private events (Reuters)
• Social Security tax rises with inflation (Wash Times)
• Meg Kreikemeier: Strong Economy, Weak Coverage (TCS)
• Iain Murray: Beware false profits (NRO)
• Ethanol, boon to farms, won't cure oil addiction (Bloomberg)
• Thomas Sowell: Myths of rich and poor (Townhall)
• Larry Elder: Those @%# tax cuts! (Townhall)

Wednesday, February 8

• Retailers challenge ‘Wal-Mart’ law in Md. (Baltimore Sun)
• South Korea and U.S. start talks on free trade pact (NY Times)
• EU violated trade rules over GMO foods (Reuters)
• State tax burdens jump across the nation (AP)
• Red flag for CBS Teflon story (Stats at GMU)
• About that ‘jobless recovery’ (Chicago Tribune)
• Walter E. Williams: Bogus rights (Townhall)
• Glenn Reynolds : No nukes is good nukes? (TCS)

Tuesday, February 7

• Bernanke sworn in as Fed chairman (AP)
• The Che Cachet (Wash. Post)
• Hugo Chavez threatens U.S. on oil (Fox News)
• Russian expert predicts global cooling from 2012 (MosNews)
• Corn power put to the test (NY Times)
• Indian president proposes Asia-Oceania trade bloc (AFP)
• Income relativism (Pittsburgh Tribune Review)
• Another pro-growth jobs report (NRO)
• Tim Worstall: The American Social Model (TCS)

Monday, February 6

• U.S. payrolls grew by 193,000 in January (AP)
• Trade ruling is expected to favor biotech food (NY Times)
• The land of leisure (The Economist)
• Cheers as world economic growth stages strong recovery (The Business Online)
• Tax rates and revenues (Cato)
• Don Boudreaux: The milk cartel (Café Hayek)
• Simon Taylor: The essential Austrian (TCS)
• Woodpecker racket? (Fox News)

Friday, February 3

• Unemployment rate declines in January (AP)
• GM Seeks to Cut Costs in IT Deals (New York Times)
• Addicted to What? (TCS)
• Chips hit record revenue: Electronic gadgets help boost sales by 6.8% in 2005 (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Retailers report strong January sales growth (Financial Times)

Thursday, February 2

• Pat Cleary: For Lou Dobbs, it's always Groundhog Day (Red State)
• Ben Bernanke sworn in as 14th Fed chairman (AP)
• Gift cards, weather boost retail sales (Reuters)Unemployment rate declines in January
• Energy chiefs eye oil off Cuba (AP)
• Congress scraps cotton subsidy (BBC)
• US dollar picks up strength (AFP)
• Sir Alan, Britain's newest economic adviser (Wash Post)
• We've lost our fear of hellfire, but put climate change in its place (Telegraph)

Wednesday, February 1

• Republicans under the gun over Exxon? (TimesWatch)
• Six suggestions for tax savings (MSNBC)
• Backstory: Banking on Bernanke (CS Monitor)
• U.S. green diesel rules may hit supply, raise prices (Reuters)
• Oil bashing, round two (Opinion Journal)
• Busting the state tax-revenue boom (NRO)
• Dr. Roy Spencer: Global warming science, or policy? (TCS)
• Hansen Revisited (World Climate Report)
• Walter E. Williams: Corporate courage (Townhall)

Tuesday, January 31

• Greenspan's legacy: uncommon insight (MSNBC)
• Bird 'flu in India: Policies that kill (Campaign for Fighting Diseases)
• European stocks head for best January in 8 Years; BP Leads (Bloomberg)
• From fear to euphoria (BusinessWeek)
• Let’s stop defaming diesels (BusinessWeek)
• Richard Teather: Praise be to tax competition! (Mises)
• Blame contracts for Ford's layoffs (Republican American)
• David Henderson: The treatment by governments of climate change issues (SEPP)

Monday, January 30

• Greenspan, another monument in Washington, prepares to leave (NY Times)
• Backstory: Eco-vigilantes: All in 'The Family?' (CS Monitor)
• Me and my motors: David Bellamy (Times Online)
• The Fix-It Myth (Wash Post)
• Income Relativism (NRO)
• More crazy Teflon coverage (Stats at GMU)
• Greenspan critics are off base on his legacy (Bloomberg)
• Tim Worstall: My kind of economist (TCS)

Friday, January 27

• Savings accounts for health costs attract Wall Street (NY Times)
• FDA may make breathing difficult for asthmatics (Fox News)
• Skepticism greeted Greenspan, too (USA Today)
• Davos trade ministers talk tough (BBC)
• Will Kyoto die at Canadian hands? (BBC)
• David Hogberg: Nanny Knows Best (Am. Spectator)
• Daniel Henninger: Whence Abramoff? (Opinion Journal)
• Uncle Miltie’s ugly Fed lesson (TCS)

Thursday, January 26

• Durable goods orders at all-time high in 2005 (AP)
• BB&T opposes eminent domain (Wash. Times)
• Chicagoans flock to Wal-Mart jobs (Chicago Sun Times)
• The great Alberta oil rush (BBC)
• China the toast of a free market (AFP)
• The pirates of profit (Townhall)
• I’m proud to be a coal miner’s grandson (TCS)
• Hard Line State (Opinion Journal)
• Is the cell phone scare finally over? (Townhall)

Wednesday, January 25

• Officials hope for WTO progress (Wash. Times)
• Disney to buy Pixar Studios in its move to a digital era (Wash. Post)
• Greenspan, 'Rock Star of Economics,' bows out (ABC News)
• Greens urge move away from 'doom and gloom' approach (CNSNews.com)
• Wal-Mart and the everyday job creators (NRO)
• Jacob Sullum: Dora the Exploiter (Reason)
• John Luik: Sponge Bob, Wide Pants? (TCS)
• Walter E. Williams: In government we trust (Townhall)

Tuesday, January 24

• A supermarket war in store (Business Week)
• RPT - Natural gas off almost 8%, ends near an eight-month low (AFX)
• Economy's leading indicators edge higher (AP)
• It's the euro's fault, many Europeans say (IHT)
• Trust chemicals, beware of nature (The Observer)
• The war on Wal-Mart (Chicago Tribune)
• Andrew Ferguson: Can deregulating toilets revive Republicans? (Bloomberg)
• Thomas Sowell: Political corruption (Townhall)

Monday, January 23

• Greenspan's exit from the Fed will be low-key (USA Today)
• Fed's Poole says inflation ‘stable,’ suggests rate increases may end soon (Bloomberg)
• Why America has to be fat (Wash. Post)
• The oil sands of Alberta (CBS)
• Thomas DiLorenzo: The union conspiracy against Wal-Mart workers (Mises)
• How to cure pork (Opinion Journal)
• Doron Levin: Pump ethanol? First make it cheaper than gasoline (Bloomberg)
• Dr. Roy Spencer: Dr. Death and Mother Gaia (TCS)

Friday, January 20

• George F. Will: Shoplifting as governance (Wash. Post)
• You can be too careful (Reason)
• Food police indict SpongeBob (Fox News)
• Hong Kong engages in more tax competition (Heritage)
• Iain Murray: No future in Kyoto dreaming (Amer. Spectator)
• Still morning in America (Opinion Journal)
• Dave Cloud: The myth of the level playing field (Townhall)
• Kudlow: Low-Tax Tiger (Kudlow’s Money Politic$)

Thursday, January 19

• Bring back the Golden Fleece (Fox News)
• Fed report: Economic activity continues to expand (AP)
• U.S. Treasuries fall as jobless claims decline to the lowest since 2000 (Bloomberg)
• Vietnam closer to joining WTO (Wash Times)
• EPA: Katrina didn't scatter toxins (The Sun Herald)
• Why the sky isn't falling (Money)
• South Korea's president wants free trade pact with US (AFP)
• The attack of the union demagogues (NRO)
• Alan Reynolds: Below the minimum wage (Townhall)

Wednesday, January 18

• Ford: Sales in China rose 46 percent (AP)
• Pain, yes, but not terminal (CNN)
• Europe's young economies are still drawing investors (IHT)
• Consumer prices in U.S. drop for second month; 2005's core rate unchanged (Bloomberg)
• Time to say 'hello' to a computer phone? (CS Monitor)
• Is the report linking the extinction of frogs with global warming a scientifically balanced conclusion? (Climate Science)
• The new space race (Forbes)
• John Stossel: Myth: Schools don't have enough money (Townhall)
• Walter E. Williams: Attacking lobbyists wrong battle (Townhall)
• Tim Worstall: Wage against the machine (TCS)

Tuesday, January 17

• Singapore plans to lift ban on U.S. beef (AP)
• Dock workers attack European Parliament (Wash. Times)
• In Hawaii, deep split on biotech  (IHT)
• Teeing up the next Kelo? (Heritage)
• Arnold Kling: Liberals should know better (TCS)
• What is the I.R.S. trying to hide? (NY Times)
• Dave Barry puts humorous spin on economy (USA Today)

Monday, January 16

• FHA loosens rules, lowers barriers (Wash. Post)
• Treasuries post weekly gain after producer price and retail sales reports (Bloomberg)
• After setback, what's next for vouchers? (CS Monitor)
• Vietnam, US start critical WTO talks in Hanoi (AFP)
• Putting the worst face on cosmetic safety (Stats at GMU)
• Carla Howell: Big government is even bigger than you think (Lew Rockwell)
• Brendan Miniter: Take our money, please! (Opinion Journal)
• John Berlau: Sarbanes-Oxley vs. the free press (Reason)

Friday, January 13

• Maryland forces Wal-Mart to pay more for employees' health care (CNS News)
• Despite its flaws, Dow remains dominant (MSNBC)
• Plants bad for the environment? Celebrities causing frogs to croak? (Fox News)
• South Korea, U.S. reach deal on beef (AP)
• Beware how you meddle with climate change (Financial Times)
• Walter E. Williams: Tax cut beneficiaries (Townhall)
• Daniel Akst: Green house gasbags (Opinion Journal)
• Herman Cain: Lies and flies (Townhall)
• Joel Schwartz: EPA’s faith-based pollution standards (TCS)

Thursday, January 12

• Mine operator: Company completed improvements (AP)
• Hostility greets Katrina recovery plan (Wash. Post)
• Good riddance to pensions (Fortune)
• GM crops make inroads in developing economies (Financial Times)
• The path to lower gas prices: Free trade (Mises)
• Michael Lewis: Eliot Spitzer exposes Wall Street's tiny jewels (Bloomberg)
• Thomas Sowell: Education: then and now (Townhall)
• Jumping to conclusions: Frogs, global warming and nature (World Climate Report)

Wednesday, January 11

• Advocate blasts IRS for freezing refunds (MSNBC)
• U.S. Treasury's Snow: Economy growing well (Reuters)
• Free Flow: A long haul for open-skies crusader (IHT)
• Wal-Mart says it created 125,000 jobs (Bloomberg)
• Mark Steyn: Climate change myth (The Australian)
• John M. Berry: Goldman Sachs Economist May Just Have THE Answer (Bloomberg)
• John Merline: Mining the media distortions yields black gold (TCS)
• John Stossel: Cheating the children (Townhall)

Tuesday, January 10

• Dow tops 11,000; First time since ’01 (NY Times)
• Nervous energy (The Economist)
• Japan sees end to deflation curse (BBC)
• “Scientific” tort fraud (therealitycheck.org)
• Jeffrey Tucker: The bureaucrat in your shower (Mises)
• Thomas Sowell: Curing poverty or using poverty? (Townhall)
• Bruce Bartlett: Changing the culture of Congress (Townhall)
• Barrynomics, or a road to funny money (NY Times)

Monday, January 9

• Weather has become bogeyman, news staple (AP)
• Bank heads happy at world economy (BBC)
• Ice cores show warming 'natural' (The Weekend Australian)
• The best and worst states for taxes (MSN)
• Poverty now comes with a color TV (CS Monitor)
• Ben Lieberman: 2006: Cheaper at the pump? (TCS)
• Kevin Hassett: Let's cut corporate taxes to create more jobs (Bloomberg)

Friday, January 6

• Employers added 108,000 jobs in December (AP)
• Soda-cancer link revealed as myth (LiveScience)
• Europe warms to nuclear power (CS Monitor)
• India clears regional free trade (BBC)
• Maximum deception (Pittsburgh Tribune Review)
• Energy, a potent political weapon (Fox News)
• Marian L. Tupy: Free trade benefits all (Cato)
• Instead of raising stamp rates, the USPS should cut costs (CS Monitor)

Thursday, January 5

• Jobless claims in U.S. fall 35,000 to 291,000, lowest since September 2000 (Bloomberg)
• Spending for 2004 was up 5 percent (Wash. Post)
• Retail data see respectable holiday season (AP)
• Crescent City comeback: New Orleans' port revived (AP)
• Thomas Sowell: Green lies (Townhall)
• Arnold Kling: The Materialism Fallacy (TCS)
• Wish they all could be like Estonia (Opinion Journal)

Wednesday, January 4

• Cold snap raises issues when biodiesel gels up (USA Today)
• Fed minutes power a New Year rally (Wash. Post)
• Battle over property rights goes on, despite ruling (CS Monitor)
• US think-tank rates Hong Kong and Singapore world's freest economies (AFP)
• Bye-Bye, Kyoto (Forbes)
• Walter Williams: Poverty hype (Wash.Times)
• Bruce Bartlett: Minimum wage ACORN roots (Wash.Times)
• Six Asian themes to keep an eye on in 2006 (Bloomberg)

Tuesday, January 3

• China's plans for energy suffer a capitalist setback (IHT)
• Hyundai expects strong sales rise (BBC)
• Hipper Than BMI (Wash Post)
• Petrodollars are helping keep U.S. economy stable (Bloomberg)
• Japan seeks free trade pacts with India, Australia, China (AFP)
• World set to get the show on the road (Reuters)
• Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren: Running on Empty (NY Times)
• Michael Barone: The Wal-Mart model (Townhall)
• Holman W. Jenkins: The Real 'Energy Crisis' (Opinion Journal)