The Obama administration's attempts to convince other countries to strengthen their currencies and the Fed's renewed bout of quantitative easing have faced staunch criticism in the United States and abroad, and have shown that the "currency wars" are far from over.

Altruism is simply not enough to satisfy the global organ shortage that has spawned illegal and unregulated organ markets, so government-sponsored compensation of healthy of individuals who are willing to give one of their kidneys is the best short-term solution.

It's tempting to call the shameful taxpayer subsidy for electric cars - vehicles that are unaffordable for all but a small number of wealthy Americans - this nation's costly little secret.

The Obama administration had the opportunity to prepare for an offshore drilling calamity, but by failing to do so, it must take the lion's share of the blame for the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico becoming a catastrophe.

A credit for first-time homebuyers enacted in 2008 has led to a massive tax fraud.

President Obama promised that the brunt of any financial reckoning will fall mostly only on those making more than $250,000 annually. Under his healthcare plan, the economic agony starts at income levels that fall much lower than that.

At this conference, we will assess whether high frequency trading (HFT) has been good or bad for the securities markets and investors.

It's comfortable living in a cocoon -- associating only with those who share your views, reading journalism and watching news that only reinforce them, avoiding those on the other side of the cultural divide.

Liberals have been doing this for a long time. In 1972 the movie critic Pauline Kael said...