If Erdogan believes it is up to any state and any region to choose its own name, then no longer should the Turkish government complain when diplomats and officials speak of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Iraqi Kurdistan, or even South Kurdistan.

What do the endlessly repeating cycle of futile Eurozone rescue talks and the endlessly repeating cycle of futile annual UN climate summits have in common? Put more plainly, what accounts for the unreality of both efforts, such that "breakthrough" agreements are soon recognized to be ineffective, if not fraudulent?

Consider the block of the Keystone pipeline expansion in the context of the Administration’s recent pattern of hostility to private sector investments.

The risk-retention requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) were enacted in the belief that they would improve thequality and reduce the risk of securitized mortgages by requiring securitizers to have -skin in the game.  

The risk-retention requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) were enacted in the belief that they would improve the quality and reduce the risk of securitized mortgages by requiring securitizers to have ―skin in the game.

The members of the freshman class of this new Congress may have some things to learn from Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), the original conservative insurgent.

Ordoliberalism, which considers social economy as the goal and the market as the medium, has been applied in Italy with little success.

If Indiana governor Mitch Daniels, who has cut spending in his state and gained a reputation as a skinflint, runs for president, he promises to be more of a long-range planner than any presidential candidate we have ever seen.