Joseph Lawler

UCSD economist James Hamilton is worried about the price of oil, currently hovering around $90 a barrel. Hamilton has argued…

In Florida, Governor-elect Rick Scott is hinting at trying to implement education savings accounts that could effectively replace the current…

Reason‘s Peter Suderman draws attention to the news that the Senate approved a plan to fund the “doc fix” —…

John Taylor and John F. Cogan write, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed titled “The Obama Stimulus Impact? Zero”: So…

On the surface, the tax deal was shaped by the Republicans’ strong bargaining position: they could afford to play a…

If President Obama truly is not willing to see the American people “get harmed” in the case that the GOP…

Looking at this morning’s terrible employment numbers, David Leonhardt of the New York Times begins to despair in a blog post…

I missed this from Matt Bai of the New York Times two days ago:  Privately, Mr. Obama has described himself, at…

Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Mike Crapo of Idaho have announced that they will vote in favor of the Simpson-Bowles Deficit…

On Monday the CBO announced that TARP is projected to cost less than previously thought, in budgetary terms. Worryingly, this…