Joseph Lawler

President Obama will meet with President Ali Bongo Ondimba of Gabon at the White House this afternoon (Lynn Sweet) Obama…

A lot of left-leaning commentators have expressed outrage over this Washington Post tidbit about Treasury secretary Tim Geithner’s role in discouraging…

According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the most recent recession began in December of 2007. But economist Justin…

Maureen Dowd is plumbing new depths of wrongness. In her latest Times column, she attempted something difficult: portraying Archbishop Diarmuid Martin…

At his blog Via Meadia, Walter Russell Mead suggests that Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner’s new book on the financial…

President Obama will announce jobs training program in a speech at Northern Virginia Community College (Politico) Weird: national horror over…

German chancellor Angela Merkel will visit the White House (Wall Street Journal) Two new polls put Romney ahead of or…

The Washington Post‘s Glenn Kessler takes a look at some of the claims President Obama made about the bailouts of…

E21 has updated the infamous chart from the 2009 Romer-Bernstein projections of the stimulus’s effects. Everything in blue is from…

Tim Pawlenty’s speech outlining his economic policy includes a lot to digest and analyze. Considering that he purports to run…