Joseph Lawler

The Chicago economist Luigi Zingales has written an article on pro-market populism that is timely in light of yesterday’s announcement…

Billionaire financier George Soros is giving $50 million to found an anti-free market think tank. The think tank, to be…

Last night the Treasury and Barney Frank, head of the House Financial Services Committee, unveiled a draft of legislation intended…

Today the New York Times came out in favor of a third stimulus. It’s unsettling to see such a bad…

The economist Scott Sumner calls this scene from the British show Golden Balls “he best 3:53 clip in game show…

The news that the administration’s press corps tried to keep Fox News out of a press pool event with executive-pay…

The news that the administration will severely cut the pay of executives at some of the firms that got the…

Nate Silver touches on the issue of financial regulation reform and the Glass-Steagall II measure that Paul Volcker is advocating,…

In case you weren’t absolutely convinced that NY-23 congressional Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava has becomed totally detached from reality, the…

The thrust of this New York Times piece on the gigantic (6’8″) Economic Recovery Advisory Board head Paul Volcker is…