Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Representative Ron Kind (D-WI), Representative Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) will begin the discussion of the need to reform agriculture subsidies in the 2012 Farm Bill. Barry K. Goodwin of North Carolina State University will discuss many of the myths and legends incorrectly used by the agriculture industry to extend these harmful policies.

Regulatory changes immediately after the Great Depression demonstrated that the aftermath of crises are moments of high risk in public policy, and provide a warning against enacting quick, comprehensive, and politically responsive regulation now.

In "Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II," Pulitzer Prize finalist Arthur Herman describes how the U.S. won history’s greatest conflict by harnessing free market principles and private-sector creativity and innovation to increase war production.

Those making policy should be careful not to apply New Deal-style policies in an attempt to fix the current economic crisis.

We need a Republican president — not to fix the economy, but to get the credit.

Despite the rhetoric from Washington, we were never close to 25 percent unemployment.

Greece's economic and political unraveling could not be coming at a worse moment for President Obama. The crisis has the potential to send shock waves not simply through Europe but also through global financial markets on the very eve of the U.S. presidential election.