Denmark is yet another country that has made wind power a hallmark of its energy policy. But are the lofty claims about Danish wind true? No.

When the meeting in Copenhagen convenes in December, Obama can offer goodwill and a promise to use regulatory power to curb carbon emissions.

Panelists will review the characteristics of the Danish system that have helped Denmark survive financial crises for over two hundred years and consider whether any of the elements of the Danish system can be useful in the United States.

The first order of business for a Republican president next year should be corporate-tax reform. But even if Republicans win big in the fall, undoing America's largest policy error will be an almost impossible political lift, unless enough people in both parties come to grips with the counterintuitive economics of corporate-tax reform.

It is old news that the S&P rating agency downgraded the US foreign-credit rating from the coveted AAA to the less impressive AA+ on August 5. But as Republicans look ahead to the possibility that they might defeat Obama, they will inevitably seek ways to recover the exalted AAA status. If history is any guide, repairing the damage done to the U.S. bond rating will be a long, hard slog.

Europe's green job revolution has resulted in job loss, higher energy prices, and corruption.

At this event, Legatum Institute senior vice president William Inboden and senior fellow Ryan Streeter will present the findings of the 2009 Prosperity Index.

Online registration for this event is closed. Walk-in registrations will be accepted.

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