There are some ideas that, no matter how often they rise and how spectacularly they fail, just won't go away. Perpetual motion machines, for example. Passive exercise machines. Diets that work. These technologies sound great in theory, but don't seem to pan out in practice. Add to the list, electric (or largely electric) cars.

The trade policies that President Obama outlined in his State of the Union Address undermine the strength of America's economy, and are the wrong way to react to the changing nature of trade.

Japan's economic performance has largely been written off over the past two decades. It shouldn't be—reform could build on the country's strong fundamentals.

Bill Ford is under attack for a change of tack away from hybrid vehicles. But activists must see that the environment is not the only stakeholder.

The Democratic Party is constantly telling the American working man that he is much worse off than he used to be in order to justify deeper government involvement in the private sector, but the numbers tell a different story.

If there is a way to reconcile mass car ownership with anti-climate change policies, we have not found it yet.

President Obama's treatment of Toyota, the biggest victim so far of his war on business, provides a glimpse of the president's vision of American government.

Obama and his team seem sharply opposed to the view that creative destruction is a valuable economic force.