Jude Wanniski might have been called the most important journalist of his time, except that the former reporter and editorial writer was never really a journalist.
If politics were a sport, guessing who a presidential candidate is going to pick as his or her running mate might be like filling out an NCAA college basketball bracket.
Jack Kemp and Madeleine Albright disagree about almost everything. Kemp, who was Bob Dole's running mate in the 1996 presidential race against Bill Clinton, leans right, while Albright, who was Cli...
Sure, the words "President Bush" tumble easily from the lips. But the presidential election is 30 months away, and this particular Bush--George W., son of George H.W.--still hasn't won reelection a...
Too bad the presidential election didn't feature a serious debate about how to improve economic growth in America. No single question vexes economists more, and none is as potentially important for...
Jude Wanniski might have been called the most important journalist of his time, except that the former reporter and editorial writer was never really a journalist.
If politics were a sport, guessing who a presidential candidate is going to pick as his or her running mate might be like filling out an NCAA college basketball bracket.
Jack Kemp and Madeleine Albright disagree about almost everything. Kemp, who was Bob Dole's running mate in the 1996 presidential race against Bill Clinton, leans right, while Albright, who was Cli...
Sure, the words "President Bush" tumble easily from the lips. But the presidential election is 30 months away, and this particular Bush--George W., son of George H.W.--still hasn't won reelection a...
Too bad the presidential election didn't feature a serious debate about how to improve economic growth in America. No single question vexes economists more, and none is as potentially important for...
Rare is the political idea that enjoys as much sustained bipartisan acclaim as the "enterprise zone"--especially in a partisan election season like this one. Republicans love the idea of creating l...
For the past few years, the promise of radical tax reform has been smoldering across the ideological landscape of America. Washington pundits and the shut-in intellectuals of the New York City-Bost...
IT WAS JUST before noon in Laconia, New Hampshire, when Steve Forbes walked into the small, nearly empty, wood-paneled dining room at the Margate Resort, where the Laconia Rotary Club was holding i...
With a parting shot aimed straight at home buyers' pocketbooks, outgoing U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Jack Kemp has issued new guidelines that could cost you thousands...
WHERE WE GO from here depends on the lessons we draw from the hellish violence that gripped the City of Angels -- 58 dead, 2,383 injured, the worst riot since the Civil War. Those lessons could be ...
Some critics of price-level adjusted mortgages (PLAMs) ((Mail: A Caution from Kemp, July)) are alarmed because nominal payments can seem quite high if inflation accelerates. In real terms, however,...
In the February Money Helps column, it was suggested that perhaps I am too busy cleaning up HUD to approve the Federal Housing Administration insuring PLAMs (price-level adjusted mortgages), which ...
What has gone before: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is rocked by scandal. It seems that ''influence peddlers'' have actually exerted influence on certain HUD decisions. Led b...
You've got to feel a mite sorry for Jack Kemp, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. HUD's name is mud, splattered by allegations that under Kemp's predecessor, Sam Pierce, the department's p...
The U.S. being a free country, numerous folks are offering George Bush advice on tax policy. Some of the advisers (including 24 Republicans in the U.S. Senate) are telling George to keep moving his...
In a year with so many candidates, choosing which campaign buttons to store in the attic can be even more difficult than predicting the next President. The election will be decided in November, but...
A fellow could get a touch of cognitive dissonance brooding over the material in Trends in Family Income: 1970-1986, the latest unsnappily titled publication of the Congressional Budget Office. The...
Poll ten economists on an economic question and you'll get at least ten opinions: That's conventional wisdom. It is also wrong. Economists are not the fractious bunch of equivocators that many peop...
IT'S 8 O'CLOCK on a Wednesday evening and 45 guests have gathered at Geraldine Robertson's waterfront home on St. Simon's Island off Georgia. Dessert is done, and Robertson, who recently gave up th...
EVEN BEFORE Miami model Donna Rice -- and how she spent the night of May 1 -- made headlines, Gary Hart's presidential campaign was in trouble. Though he led the Democratic polls, Hart lagged behin...
A young lobbying firm advises big corporate clients and top presidential hopefuls, too. INFLUENCE is the political currency of Washington, and the hottest marketer of connections to the powerful is...
November 11-12: Many of the world's most prominent economic policymakers are expected to attend an international conference on monetary reform in Washington, D.C., sponsored by Senator Bill Bradley...
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