Peace Process Harmed Is...

Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe Boston.comClassifieds: Log in : Jeff Jacoby   May 23, 2012 To Add a message Your e-mail ‘What happened,” asks Michael Oren, “to Israel’s reputation?”The Israeli ambassador to the United States, a noted...

The IPO From Hell?...

Holman Jenkins, Wall Street Journal How badly did Nasdaq screw up the Facebook offering? Nasdaq is in a service business, and it served its customers terribly. It couldn't get trading in the shares started on time. It didn't act on orders that some investors and traders...

How the Recovery Went W...

Harvey Golub, Wall Street Journal President Obama, in speech after speech, proudly makes the following point: Although we inherited the worst recession since the Great Depression, we have generated net new jobs every month, and while we need to do more, we are going in the right...

U.S. Can Stimulate Now,...

Peter Orszag, Bloomberg From 2017 to 2022, Social Security’s normal retirement age is scheduled to gradually increase to 67. And I’ll bet that not only happens as planned, but does so with little fanfare — which is pretty much what happened several years ago when...

Will Regulators Unfrien...

Gordon Crovitz, Wall Street Journal Why did Facebook go public?They couldn't figure out the privacy settings either.This was the best of the Wall Street jokes about last week's $100 billion-plus valuation for Facebook. The punch line is a reminder that the company's...

Is Obama Paving the Way...

Bill Kristol, Weekly Standard For our part, we’d like to see a decisive triumph for Romney and his running mate over two formidable representatives of contemporary liberalism, rather than a discounted victory over a flawed ticket with only one strong candidate. So we sincerely...

Why Obama Is Sweating J...

Noam Scheiber, The New Republic The Wall Street Journal has an intriguing story today about the anxiety in the White House over $2 billion-and-counting loss that JP Morgan announced last week. At first blush, the reason for the angst isn't entirely clear. After all, the loss would...

Robin Hood Tax Part of ...

John Nichols, The Nation There's something sick about a politics that tells children to give up their lunch money so that billionaire speculators can avoid paying taxes. And that sickness will only be cured by a new politics.That new politics begins this week in Chicago.When National...

About That Obama Enemie...

Alec MacGillis, The New Republic One of the rewards of being a loyal Wall Street Journal subscriber is that one gets to read things one might not see anywhere else. For instance, in Wednesday's paper there was a chilling front-page scoop about the fact that it was an...

Deficit Reduction: The ...

Dean Baker, Huffington Post This is the week of the third annual Deficit Fest, the event sponsored by Wall Street billionaire Peter G. Peterson. At this event, many of the people most responsible for the current downturn come together to tell us why we should be worried about the deficit...