http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanReynolds http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanReynolds TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2013 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:01:00 GMT Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ It suddenly became clear that Hillary Clinton and her advisors intend to run a negative presidential campaign -- not negative about other candidates, but about the U.S. economy. On May 29, Sen. Clinton launched her... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanReynolds/2007/06/01/a_progressive_backlash d554fc4e-167e-4dc1-9335-5d7ffc557d68 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:01:00 GMT Rational discussion of the Senate immigration bill is being stifled and befuddled by a few misused words and phrases that generate irrational anger and very little understanding. The simple dichotomy between legal... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanReynolds/2007/05/24/immigration_semantics 87c474b6-820b-4cea-a6f5-8275bfa62cd0 Thu, 24 May 2007 04:01:00 GMT In a recent New York Times column, Paul Krugman frets that we are in a "New Gilded Age" because "every available measure of income concentration shows that we've gone back to levels of inequality not seen since the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanReynolds/2007/05/17/when_progressive_means_punitive 2f26c674-c905-47ae-9235-84f916e8829f Thu, 17 May 2007 04:00:00 GMT Economist Alan Blinder wrote in The Washington Post that "offshoring of service jobs from rich countries such as the United States to poor countries such as India may pose major problems for tens of millions of American... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanReynolds/2007/05/10/blinders_blunder 7b3f392f-be37-4d5f-8cc7-02e844c91928 Thu, 10 May 2007 04:00:00 GMT George Tenet made patently ridiculous claims about WMD in Iraq, while serving as CIA director, and was eventually fired. Former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz made patently ridiculous claims about WMD in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanReynolds/2007/05/03/the_fear_industry f227d336-b947-43ab-a99c-29dbe5550afe Thu, 03 May 2007 04:01:00 GMT In "The Seven Fat Years," Robert Bartley, the legendary former editor of The Wall Street Journal, wrote: "On March 26, 1976 Herb Stein coined a label, the 'supply-side fiscalists,' telling a conference at the Homestead... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanReynolds/2007/04/26/what_supply-side_economics_means 0451e82e-336f-4db6-a1c9-4a6bb653995e Thu, 26 Apr 2007 04:00:00 GMT Two French economists, Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez, can count on a flood of publicity every time they release a new estimate of the share of U.S. income supposedly received by the top 1 percent. Even veteran... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanReynolds/2007/04/19/what_is_income e1f38e19-3701-4e3f-9258-5e1e0503d83c Thu, 19 Apr 2007 04:01:00 GMT A recent Gallup poll found that only 41 percent of respondents approved of Bush's handling of the economy, compared to 55 percent who disapproved. Such a question would make sense, of course, only if the United States... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanReynolds/2007/04/12/comparing_bush_and_clinton_economies 726bcec9-92fa-4aef-958c-8c4c0183305f Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:01:00 GMT Lou Uchitelle of The New York Times has made a career of writing passionately about the plight of laid-off workers. This is not a challenging journalistic mission. Even at the peak of economic booms, it is never... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanReynolds/2007/04/05/layoffs_in_perspective 3bf65cf9-da73-4dcf-bfc5-fa069cbc400a Thu, 05 Apr 2007 04:00:54 GMT Former Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director David Stockman, whom I worked with in the 1981 Reagan administration transition team, has gotten himself involved in a legal tussle with the Justice Department. The... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanReynolds/2007/03/29/david_stockman_man_and_myth 03a44d7f-6735-41b9-b120-09017bed12e9 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 04:00:00 GMT When it comes to economic news, the press tends to be biased toward exaggeration and sensationalism. If some event isn't a "scandal," then it must be a "crisis." The latest example of crisis journalism turned the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanReynolds/2007/03/22/subprime_economics 5703c860-d41b-47e9-98a7-8f322c394f6d Thu, 22 Mar 2007 04:01:00 GMT New York Sen. Chuck Schumer and a half-dozen freshman legislators, reports the Los Angeles Times, "want to add tax credits and deductions to benefit narrow groups of largely middle-class constituents. Among potential... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanReynolds/2007/03/15/sen_schumers_tax_loopholes 24979a8b-c9d3-4a57-932b-be34faba684d Thu, 15 Mar 2007 04:01:00 GMT During the euphoric high-tech boom of the 1990s, America Online offered my daughter a thousand stock options to recruit her away from another firm. In 2001, after four years of vesting, that gave her the right to buy... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanReynolds/2007/03/09/backdating_bunkum 2ed26f0f-cbde-4b5d-9094-1d42bc7522c7 Fri, 09 Mar 2007 05:01:00 GMT Sudden drops in stock prices typically provoke more panic among reporters than among investors. When Dow industrials fell by 22.6 percent on October 19, 1987, the press was quickly filled with alarmed stories about an... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanReynolds/2007/03/02/stock_shock a88eaf2e-495a-4ae4-89d9-6659b55de638 Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:00:00 GMT Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen laments the fact that candidates are under heavy pressure to tailor their beliefs (or rhetoric) to "get past ideological bottlenecks" in early primary states: "For Republicans,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanReynolds/2007/02/22/politics_and_moralizing 907e54f8-23b0-4559-b6e6-39c65a01dbc3 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:01:00 GMT