Larry Lindsey, with his profound knowledge of Washington ways, has absolutely nailed the principal guiding motto of all regulatory bureaucracies: "Cross us and we will make you pay."

Why are some balance sheets better for certain assets than others? Well, some are less leveraged, some have longer-term funding, some have government favors and subsidies, and some may just be stuffees.

Editor’s note: Jim Manzi is the author of “Uncontrolled: the Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society.” He is the founder and chairman of Applied Predictive Technologies, a global provider of predictive analytics software. Manzi is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor at...

At The Chronicle of Higher Education, “journalistic standards” are of the double kind. And incivility is a firing offense — unless you’re criticizing a conservative, in which case nasty smears are all the rage

Are higher rates of college attendance really a good thing?

Many thanks to John Stossel for articulating the combination of incompetence and bureaucratic will to power that characterizes the TSA. The TSA represents a huge victory for Islamic terrorists over the people of the U.S. How these terrorists must roar with self-satisfied laughter when they contemplate the TSA busily harassing...

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 28, 2008

The first issue of The American magazine under the leadership of new editor-in-chief Nick Schulz was released today.

A former senior editor of The American, Schulz helped launch the magazine and its online...

The $2 billion loss by JPMorgan Chase has reawakened debate about whether banks are taking excessive risks, but many facts have gotten lost in the breathless media coverage.