Archive - January 2006 - December 2005 - November 2005 - October 2005 - September 2005 - August 2005

Tuesday, February 28

• U.S., Colombia reach free-trade agreement (Reuters)
• Fannie report details a calculated ‘catch-up’ (Wash. Post)
• New chief scientist cheers for GM foods (The Australian)
• Brendan Miniter: Always High Taxes (Opinion Journal)
• Pete Du Pont: The 25 Fat Years (Opinion Journal)
• Bruce Bartlett: Why I Wrote the Book (Townhall)
• Thomas Sowell: Something for nothing (Townhall)

Monday, February 27

• Port security puts CNN's Dobbs on attack (AP)
• What is an oil company, anyway? (NY Times)
• BB&T denies loans to businesses benefiting from eminent domain (Fox News)
• Best and worst tax codes for businesses (CNN)
• Economy seen rebounding strongly in 2006 (AP)
• Donald Luskin: The Abramoff math scandal (NRO)
• Wish upon a star: Sell Disney the Grand Canyon (Cato)
• Deroy Murdock: Lawsuits sickening us (Wash. Times)
• Veronique de Rugy: Bipartisan hysteria is not security (TCS)

Friday, February 24

• Fight over ports clouds efforts to open Middle East markets (LA Times)
• Weak Energy Week (Fox News)
• More ‘Big Spenders’ than ‘Friends of Taxpayers’ in Congress (CNSNews.com)
• The business of giving (The Economist)
• Does health cost too much? (Reason)
• Science journals delivering “political science” (Townhall)
• Tom Nugent: Dinner with the Twins (NRO)
• Political boundaries are not – and ought not be – economic boundaries (TCS)

Thursday, February 23

• Rhode Island wins lead paint suit (Boston Globe)
• Report: Fannie Mae finance chief, controller central to failures (Fox News)
• Critics unload on port deal (LA Times)
• US fuel supply problems seen as MTBE dropped – EIA (Reuters)
• No breakthrough after trade talks (BBC)
• The Anti-Kelo Case (Opinion Journal)
• James K. Glassman: Good for America (TCS)
• Alan Reynolds: Should Wal-Mart reduce wages? (Townhall)

Wednesday, February 22

• Index of leading economic indicators rises (USA Today)
• US economy expanding at a ‘solid pace': Fed minutes (AFP)
• Science and fiction (IBD)
• Growth isn’t the problem (NRO)
• Bill Frist: Tax cuts make money (USA Today)
• Daniel Mitchell: Using tax money to push more taxes (Wash Times)
• Walter E. Williams: Indoctrination of our youth (Townhall)
• Herman Cain: Liberal goal for America: Gutless socialism (Townhall)

Tuesday, February 21

• Market watchers to focus on May 10 Fed meeting (USA Today)
• Offshore drilling backers smell victory (Wash. Post)
• Venezuela’s unrealized revolution (CS Monitor)
• Fear of the unknown no longer justifies GM crop bans (The Age)
• Lower emissions’ trade-off: Less safety (Philadelphia Inquirer)
• Supreme Clean Water Day (NRO)
• Dave Barry's finance tips are a laughing matter (Bloomberg)
• Patrick J. Michaels: Hansen's Hot Hype (Amer Spectator)

Monday, February 20

• Economy feels heat of warm winter weather (MSNBC)
• States eye land seizure limits (USA Today)
• Bulls try to show their mettle (CNN)
• Fannie, Freddie keep up lobbying (Wash. Post)
• Courts erode case for excise tax (AP)
• The politics of oil addiction (Amer Spectator)
• Ronald Bailey: Culture of fear (Reason)
• Patrick Michaels: Ice storm (TCS)
• John Tamny: Superfluous Sarbanes-Oxley (NRO)

Friday, February 17

• Gasoline falls below $2 in some spots (USA Today)
• Kyoto's quiet anniversary (Fox News)
• Bernanke says U.S. debt risk is limited (Reuters)
• Outsourcing hasn’t hit its peak (BusinessWeek)
• Six reasons to kill farm subsidies and trade barriers (Reason)
• Nick Schulz: Holy flying cow! (TCS)
• Brian Riedl: Myth of spending cuts (Wash. Times)

Thursday, February 16

• One Year Later, Kyoto-Enthusiasts Struggle to Meet Targets (CNSNews.com)
• Housing starts soar to near 33-year high (Wash Post)
• Bernanke Says Economy's Expansion Is on Track (Wash Post)
• Microsoft Criticizes EU Regulators (LA Times)
• Parliament OKs bill to liberalize EU laws (Biz Week)
• Falling Oil Price Overshadows Concerns on Interest Rates (NY Times)
• Frist: Tax relief is essential (Wash Times)
• Feulner: Cut out the meddle man

Wednesday, February 15

• Fed nominees vow to make inflation control a top priority (Bloomberg)
• Cost of E85 fuel is higher than gasoline (USA Today)
• Let the (economics) games begin (Fox News)
• China defends trade record as US ups ante with new task force (AFP)
• Our new coalition of the willing (Amer Spectator)
• Negotiating at gunpoint (Reason)
• Bruce Bartlett: A dynamic idea (NRO)
• Anthony Lupo: The climate forest for the trees (TCS)
• Walter E. Williams: Modern day silly talk (Townhall)

Tuesday, February 14

• U.S. January retail sales rise by most since May 2004 (Bloomberg)
• The decline and fall of Europe (Wash. Post)
• Activists protest union ‘fossils,’ launch fact site (CNSNews)
• Bush advisers see fast US growth (BBC)
• Maybe you're not what you eat (NY Times)
• UP scientists dispute Gore’s doomsday scenario (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
• World trade group rules tax benefits by U.S. illegal (NY Times)
• The age of corporate environmentalism (Reason)
• Herman Cain: Opportunity is not black or white (Townhall)
• Stephen Bainbridge: Peekaboo, the Constitution doesn't see you (TCS)

Monday, February 13

• Is this thing on? Bernanke steps to the mike (MSNBC)
• Tax reform likely to gain momentum, conservatives say (CNS News)
• A (Mis)informed Public (World Climate Report)
• WTO rejects US appeal in export tax row with EU (Reuters)
• The Great American Pork Barrel (Harper’s Magazine)
• The windfall profit-taxers are back (NRO)
• George Taylor: A consensus about consensus (TCS)
• Jeff Jacoby: You bet I want fries with that (Townhall)
• Washington Post again puts good economic news on D-1, bad news on A-1 (NewsBusters)

Friday, February 10

• Where are the manufacturing jobs going? (National Ass’n of Manufacturers)
• Traffic tax lacks support, poll says (Wash. Times)
• Stop worrying about the trade deficit (TCS)
• Strong demand greets return of the long bond (Wash. Post)
• Toyota hopes full-size truck steals Big Three sales (El Paso Times)
• Oil prices edge lower on rising US energy stockpiles (AFX News)
• Low-fat diet myth busted (Fox News)

Thursday, February 9

• The Big Easy? Now it’s limbo land (Wash Post)
• Greenspan upbeat on economy at private events (Reuters)
• Social Security tax rises with inflation (Wash Times)
• Meg Kreikemeier: Strong Economy, Weak Coverage (TCS)
• Iain Murray: Beware false profits (NRO)
• Ethanol, boon to farms, won't cure oil addiction (Bloomberg)
• Thomas Sowell: Myths of rich and poor (Townhall)
• Larry Elder: Those @%# tax cuts! (Townhall)

Wednesday, February 8

• Retailers challenge ‘Wal-Mart’ law in Md. (Baltimore Sun)
• South Korea and U.S. start talks on free trade pact (NY Times)
• EU violated trade rules over GMO foods (Reuters)
• State tax burdens jump across the nation (AP)
• Red flag for CBS Teflon story (Stats at GMU)
• About that ‘jobless recovery’ (Chicago Tribune)
• Walter E. Williams: Bogus rights (Townhall)
• Glenn Reynolds : No nukes is good nukes? (TCS)

Tuesday, February 7

• Bernanke sworn in as Fed chairman (AP)
• The Che Cachet (Wash. Post)
• Hugo Chavez threatens U.S. on oil (Fox News)
• Russian expert predicts global cooling from 2012 (MosNews)
• Corn power put to the test (NY Times)
• Indian president proposes Asia-Oceania trade bloc (AFP)
• Income relativism (Pittsburgh Tribune Review)
• Another pro-growth jobs report (NRO)
• Tim Worstall: The American Social Model (TCS)

Monday, February 6

• U.S. payrolls grew by 193,000 in January (AP)
• Trade ruling is expected to favor biotech food (NY Times)
• The land of leisure (The Economist)
• Cheers as world economic growth stages strong recovery (The Business Online)
• Tax rates and revenues (Cato)
• Don Boudreaux: The milk cartel (Café Hayek)
• Simon Taylor: The essential Austrian (TCS)
• Woodpecker racket? (Fox News)

Friday, February 3

• Unemployment rate declines in January (AP)
• GM Seeks to Cut Costs in IT Deals (New York Times)
• Addicted to What? (TCS)
• Chips hit record revenue: Electronic gadgets help boost sales by 6.8% in 2005 (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Retailers report strong January sales growth (Financial Times)

Thursday, February 2

• Pat Cleary: For Lou Dobbs, it's always Groundhog Day (Red State)
• Ben Bernanke sworn in as 14th Fed chairman (AP)
• Gift cards, weather boost retail sales (Reuters)Unemployment rate declines in January
• Energy chiefs eye oil off Cuba (AP)
• Congress scraps cotton subsidy (BBC)
• US dollar picks up strength (AFP)
• Sir Alan, Britain's newest economic adviser (Wash Post)
• We've lost our fear of hellfire, but put climate change in its place (Telegraph)

Wednesday, February 1

• Republicans under the gun over Exxon? (TimesWatch)
• Six suggestions for tax savings (MSNBC)
• Backstory: Banking on Bernanke (CS Monitor)
• U.S. green diesel rules may hit supply, raise prices (Reuters)
• Oil bashing, round two (Opinion Journal)
• Busting the state tax-revenue boom (NRO)
• Dr. Roy Spencer: Global warming science, or policy? (TCS)
• Hansen Revisited (World Climate Report)
• Walter E. Williams: Corporate courage (Townhall)