The Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee works to identify and analyze developing trends and ongoing events that promise to affect the efficiency and safe operation of sectors of the financial services industry; explore the spectrum of short- and long-term implications of emerging problems and policy changes; help develop private, regulatory and legislative responses to such problems that promote efficiency and safety and further the public interest; and to assess and respond to proposed and actual public policy initiatives with respect to the impact on the public interest.

To build resilience to the impact of global warming, the United States should incorporate an adaptation agenda as well as advance technologies that allow the removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

The same level of openness, transparency, and consultation in the scientific elements of the decision-making process should infuse every element of the public policy development process.

Do global warming initiatives create jobs?

It's comfortable living in a cocoon -- associating only with those who share your views, reading journalism and watching news that only reinforce them, avoiding those on the other side of the cultural divide.

Liberals have been doing this for a long time. In 1972 the movie critic Pauline Kael said...

There can be few more compelling and tragic examples of the abuse of science and misuse in ongoing public policy than that of DDT and public health.

Breaking windows will stimulate the economy, according to a leading public pension advocacy group. Skeptical? The National Institute on Retirement Security (NIRS) has not literally endorsed breaking windows, but a report recently published by the organization relies on the same economic fallacy.According to NIRS-whose membership consists principally of...

The same money can't be spent twice. ObamaCare tries to do precisely that, and the government will have to borrow the difference.