FROM THE PRESIDENT, POLICY STATEMENTS WITHOUT A THEME
I got plenty o` nuttin` and nuttin`s plenty for me. -Ira Gershwin, ''Porgy and Bess'' I once knew a guy who could do only one thing at a time. I...
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IS THIS ANY WAY TO RUN A BANKING SYSTEM?
America`s real long-term problem is simple. It does not know how to run a bank. In the annals of banking since the beginning of time, this will be known as...
WILL THE NEW GLOBAL ECONOMY LEAVE U.S. WORKERS BEHIND?
Since the founding of the Republic, America has had a strong isolationist strain. This sentiment survived two world wars and an economically destructive Cold War between the U.S. and the...
WASHINGTON`S CHERRY-TREE STORY MIGHT GET A HATCHET JOB IN 1992
As the capital`s magnificent cherry blossoms begin to burst into bloom along the Tidal Basin, they conjure up one of America`s enduring stories, the saga of George Washington and the...
WILL A WEAK RECOVERY KILL THE ECONOMIC DEBATE?
Just like learning, a little recovery is a dangerous thing. Even the slightest upturn changes moods. It causes people to spend more of their money. It creates some new hiring....
COULD A BILLIONAIRE BUY HIS WAY INTO THE WHITE HOUSE?
The man to watch in this presidential campaign is H. Ross Perot, the Texas billionaire. It`s obvious that he`s serious about trying to do something to change the country. More...
PAT AND JERRY, THE HIGH PRIESTS OF PROTECTIONISM
The presidential election has stirred new isolationist spirits across the country. Jerry Brown and Pat Buchanan, the witch doctors of economics, have emerged from their huts chanting unintelligible incantations about...
BUSH MAY BE CHEERED BY SIGNS OF A RECOVERY, BUT PROSPERITY WILL
Little glimmerings of an economic recovery are providing some cheer to George Bush in his season of despair. Shopping-mall traffic is up. People are a little looser with their purse...
TSONGAS ENERGY PLAN DOESN`T ADD UP
Far be it from me to question Paul Tsongas` honesty. But when the Democratic candidate for president tried to back away from his stand on nuclear power the other day,...
THE STAMPEDE AWAY FROM THE STATUS QUO
Who will stand up for the status quo? It`s hard to find anyone here who claims it. Somewhere, deep in the bureaucracy, there might be a hidden fan of S.Q....