QE2: Another Fed Backfire? Capitalize on the Monetary Folly
David Dreman– Big Ben has done it again, but what he’s done he didn’t mean to do. QE2 is the moniker affixed to the Fed’s second round of quantitative easing, a salvo to jump-start the economy and stave off deflation. Last month the Fed, in a bit of monetary magicianship, began buying the first of […]
Top Ten Side Effects of 2010
Within days of Obamacare’s passage, The Heritage Foundation began documenting all of the ill Side Effects the new law was inflicting on our country. It has been The Foundry’s most popular feature by far. The Side Effects index page is the third highest trafficked page on the blog. Continuing our Top Ten in 2010 series, […]
Side Effects: Ball Drop Brings Bad News for Consumer-Driven Health Plan Users
This year, as the clock strikes twelve on New Year’s Eve, Americans who depend on health savings accounts (HSAs) to make medical expenditures more affordable will experience first-hand yet another adverse side effect of Obamacare. Starting in 2011, American families will no longer be able to use HSAs to purchase over-the-counter drugs, such as cough […]
The Education Year in Review – 2010
As we enter a new year, education reformers will look back on 2010 as the year when education in the United States began to return its focus to the needs of students instead of to the demands of adults. During this past year, public attention to the barriers of educational opportunity created by special interests […]
Profiling Works – Profile Muslims or Die
Here is how our present airline security measures have worked and failed, and will progress in the future: 1. We are required to remove footwear because of the failed Muslim shoe bomber Richard Reid. 2 We are severely limited to bringing liquids on planes because of multiple, failed Muslim attempts at destroying airliners. Civilians don’t […]
Science: Another Ice Age?
From Time Magazine 1974: In Africa, drought continues for the sixth consecutive year, adding terribly to the toll of famine victims. During 1972 record rains in parts of the U.S., Pakistan and Japan caused some of the worst flooding in centuries. In Canada’s wheat belt, a particularly chilly and rainy spring has delayed planting and […]
Islamic Terror? This is Worse!
A new threat is emerging – or re-emerging – that moves terror beyond even what has been created by blood-thirsty radical Islamists who want a worldwide caliphate under control of the Shariah and the Qu’ran, says a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. The new multi-national threat comes from Muslims who want a stateless society […]
A New Year and a New Direction for Health Care Reform
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act became the law of the land in 2010, but debate over its existence and implementation will rage on in the New Year. The law’s serious policy flaws are already impacting health insurance and costs, but these are part of a deeper and broader issue: the proper role for […]
Hiding A Depression: How The US Government Does It
By: Daniel Amerman Overview The real US unemployment rate is not 9.8% but between 25% and 30%. That is a depression level of job losses – so why doesn’t it look like a depression for many people? How can so large of a statistical discrepancy exist, and how is it that holiday shopping malls are […]
If We Close Our Eyes, The Monster Will Go Away
Refusing to face the need for radical change and adaptation only makes the eventual adjustment more traumatic and less likely to succeed. As an initial reaction to unwelcome crises, denial serves a psychological purpose. Closing our eyes and hoping the Monster will go away is the first stage of eventual acceptance and engagement with unwelcome […]
Top Ten Foundry Posts of 2010
Rounding out our Top Ten of 2010 series (we already listed the Top Ten Charts, Top Ten Papers, Top Ten Videos, Top Ten Morning Bells, and Top Ten Side Effects), today we bring you the Top Ten Foundry Posts of this year. As always, posts are ranked by pageviews with the 10th most popular post […]
