As we now focus on the critical deliberations to respond to the impending fiscal “cliff”, I was struck by a letter to the editor by Mr. H. Paul Lasky of Spring Valley, New York, who wrote the Wall Street Journal in response to a letter from Sen. Charles Schumer in which the Senator chides the […]
Archives for November 2012
It’s About Entrepreneurship, Stupid!
In the current issue of Chief Executive magazine, there is a report on a recent study by Tim Kane of the Hudson Institute which analyzes job creation and finds that almost all net new jobs come from newly formed firms as opposed to small firms. Using data from the Commerce and Labor Departments, he adds […]
Restoring Constitutional Government
For most of the past 100 years we have been engaged in an intense debate on the purposes of government, particularly the concept of constitutional government. This debate originated earlier in the aftermath of the Civil War, continued through the growth of an industrial America, was energized by the Progressive movement of the early 20th […]
The Sad State of the Education Pipeline
In the fall edition of Education Next, Paul Peterson and his coauthors Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woesmann attempt to answer the question, “Is the U. S. Catching Up?”, the title to their article suggested by the recent pronouncement in a new book by Yu Xie of the University of Michigan that “American high school students […]
What Now?
To paraphrase former President Gerald R. Ford, with apologies– our long national nightmare continues. Did we actually just spend a reported $6 billion for this, to move two states from one column to the other, leaving all else virtually intact? And did we leave the same guy in office as CEO, after having presided over […]