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15 May 2011, 8:11 pm
President Obama and members of Congress are calling for a sharp reduction in the substantial direct subsidies to American oil companies. [read post]
26 Mar 2010, 9:00 pm
We have covered the dysfunctional NLRB for quite some time. [read post]
17 Jan 2011, 9:45 am
The fiscal crisis in many states of the United States has led these states to cut their funding of public colleges and universities. [read post]
14 Nov 2010, 1:52 pm
Other governments, and their central banks, have reacted vocally and negatively to the Federal Reserve’s plan for another round of quantitative easing-which means that the Fed purchases long-term bonds. [read post]
12 Dec 2010, 1:09 pm
Perhaps the “war on drugs”, initiated by President Nixon in the 1970s, was worth starting, in part for the reasons Posner gives. [read post]
6 Mar 2011, 3:12 pm
The revolutions and protests in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, and other parts of the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa) are the most important world development in the past 20 years, even though it is still highly uncertain about the types of governments that will emerge, the effects on their economic and political freedoms, and their production of oil. [read post]
26 May 2009, 10:00 am
Richard Posner, A Soda or Calorie Tax to Reduce Obesity: Articles in the New England Journal of Medicine on April 30, and in the New York Times on May 19, discuss a proposal now before Congress to impose a tax on sugar-sweetened sodas in order to reduce obesity. [read post]
1 Apr 2012, 6:11 pm
More or less every American president starting with Dwight Eisenhower, and prioritized by Richard Nixon, called for American self-sufficiency in energy sources. [read post]
7 Oct 2012, 7:59 pm
Sustained long-term economic growth beginning in the near future would help greatly toward overcoming two major problems confronting the United States (and Europe and Japan). [read post]
9 Jul 2012, 6:36 am
The latest jobs report on Friday confirmed that this is by far the slowest US recovery from a recession in employment as well as income since the end of World War II. [read post]
8 Apr 2012, 10:24 pm
Fruit trees in a number of cities, including San Francisco, are prevented from bearing fruit in the name of “protecting” pedestrians from slip and falls and keeping away insects and vermin. [read post]
10 Aug 2009, 3:18 pm
Westchester County paid the firm $3 million to defend it against claims that it was dishonest about its efforts to desegregate white communities in its applications for federal housing funds. [read post]
30 Sep 2012, 7:17 pm
The patent system (I concentrate on patents) is supposed to encourage innovation, the foundation of economic progress. [read post]
8 Apr 2012, 3:10 pm
Posner is clearly correct that the analytical differences between “super Pacs” and direct campaign contributions to candidates are not large enough to justify disparate treatments. [read post]
25 Mar 2010, 2:28 pm
Well, I for one, hope so. [read post]
18 Mar 2012, 3:01 pm
The traditional case for tenure at the university level rests on two pillars. [read post]
2 Jan 2011, 4:56 pm
Results on standardized tests are becoming a common way to evaluate student performance in different school systems, such as in different states of the United States. [read post]
3 May 2011, 9:23 am
“Poor countries cannot afford democracy” is a common refrain suggesting that poor countries need strong and authoritarian leaders to overcome the various forces that kept them poor for centuries. [read post]
22 Apr 2012, 10:23 am
Manufacturing employment as a fraction of total employment has been declining for the past half century in the United States and the great majority of other developed countries. [read post]
29 Apr 2012, 12:34 pm
The over 4,000 American private and public colleges and universities compete fiercely for students, faculty, and grants, and constitute the most competitive system of higher education in the world that provides both high quality and low quality programs. [read post]
