Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately:
The Emerging Markets’ Century — The American, A Magazine of Ideas
www.american.com
“Whereas public debt levels in many major industrialized countries will soon exceed 100 percent of GDP, those in the major emerging market economies generally range between 40 to 50 percent of GDP.”
Catholics and the Cosmos: Thinking About Souls and Human Origins, and What Pius XII Said About Evolution
online.wsj.com
“In The Wall Street Journal’s Houses of Worship column, John Farrell writes about the 60th anniversary of Pope Pius XII’s 1950 encyclical on Christianity and the theory of evolution and asks whether advances in science call for more discussion in the church.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Public Pensions and Our Fiscal Future – WSJ.com
online.wsj.com
“In The Wall Street Journal, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger challenges the State Assembly in Sacramento to bring rising pension costs under control.”
The $31 Billion Revenue Fantasy – WSJ.com
online.wsj.com
“The Wall Street Journal writes that those who make $200,000 a year are 3% of all taxpayers but pay 52% of all income taxes.”
Spreading Hayek, Spurning Keynes – WSJ.com
online.wsj.com
“Peter J. Boettke is emerging as the intellectual standard-bearer for a revival of the Austrian school of economics.”
We Just Don’t Understand – WSJ.com
online.wsj.com
“Americans look at the president and see a stranger, writes Peggy Noonan.”
Fiscal policy: Is economics a right-wing conspiracy? | The Economist
www.economist.com
“I’LL admit it, I am ambivalent about whether we need more fiscal stimulus and still think it’s too early to tell how effective the last one was. I dare to voice my concerns and I get labelled “a conservative economist”. But my worries are based on my professional training—my fields were public finance and macro—more than any political agenda.”
An Updated Guide to the EconoTwitterverse – Real Time Economics – WSJ
blogs.wsj.com
” An updated and expanded list of econ-related tweeps, from journalists to economists.”
Peter Berkowitz: The Death of Conservatism Was Greatly Exaggerated – WSJ.com
online.wsj.com
“In The Wall Street Journal, Peter Berkowitz says that liberals completely misread the election of Obama as the death knell of conservatism. Instead, the president’s progressive agenda has led to a revival of conservatism.”
Charles Krauthammer – The last refuge of a liberal
www.washingtonpost.com
“The only hope for liberals is to play the race card.”
Obama’s Illegal Stem-Cell Policy « Public Discourse
“A year and a half ago, when President Obama signed his executive order funding embryo-destructive stem-cell research, I argued in The Weekly Standard that he was perpetuating a needless stem-cell war, that his decision was “bad ethics, bad science, and bad politics.” Add “bad law” to the list.”
Gone 20 years, Stevie Ray Vaughan stands forever tall in Austin
www.austin360.com
“The Austin music community woke up on Aug. 27, 1990 20 years ago today with a piece of its soul gone.”