Cash for clunkers is another lesson in how a bureaucratic economy operates, one which denizens of European welfare states and their 30 percent lower standard of living know all too well.

Cash for Clunkers is a prime example of the unanticipated consequences of hastily drafted legislation.

The current poor economic climate is not as bad as it is going to get. Some say the economy is going to get worse before it gets better.

With the benefit of hindsight, it seems that our leaders, in both the Bush and the Obama administrations, responded to crises and challenges all too often with measures that attempted to revive the old pre-financial crisis economy rather than with policies that would allow a new economy to grow.

Not many people noticed during the run up to the Iowa caucuses and last year's payroll tax fight that a far more important, and potentially game-changing, resolution passed the Senate at the end of 2011.

The market economy is cooperative, and more successfully so than any alternative system ever conceived of, never mind put into practice.

Conservatives and free-enterprise advocates should seize the moment to show their own passion for the issues being debated—and, where appropriate, even embrace the protesters’ moral critique of America’s distorted and depressed system.

Keep seven keys in mind when making sense of what the Republican field is (and isn't) saying on education.