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 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 […]
Interesting Quote from Bill Clinton
Many people, both financial professionals and commentators, have blamed the adoption of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act in 1999, which repealed the restrictions on affiliation between commercial and investment banks in the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, as an important, if not primary cause of the financial meltdown of 2008-09. Others suggest that these restrictions and separations should […]
High Stakes Testing and the Vocational Education Debate
For the past year in almost every available venue, opponents of high stakes standardized assessments of public school student achievement have been droning on about the perceived oppression of the Texas public school accountability system, which has been rated by national education organizations as having produced the best high school graduation standard in the […]
The Fiscal Mess, the Fed, the Dollar, and Gold
A chorus of pundits, experts, and opinion pieces is growing around the need for a completely overhauled monetary and fiscal policy infrastructure for the country, and I say that we cannot move too fast to get about it. Five senior fellows at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, including former cabinet level government officials involved in fiscal […]
Finally, the End of the “Narrative”?
When I previously used the title phrase “The End of the Narrative” in January 2011, after the 2010 election rout by the Tea Party, it was accurate to an extent, but largely premature. Here is what I said then: “As we welcome the new year and a new political season, having given considerable time to […]
Launch of Citizens for Student Success
I am pleased to have been invited and have agreed to be a contributing blogger to the web site of Citizens for Student Success, a national coalition for the reform of higher education led by the Texas Public Policy Foundation. The site will incorporate lessons learned from the recent reform experiences in several states and […]
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