Jewish World Review
Amity Shlaes
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03/05/21: Republicans shouldn't be Dem-lite
01/30/18: Growth, Not Equality
06/29/05: The China Bet Is Off
06/22/05: Blue Dog Democrats hound piggies
06/16/05: Why is Bush so stingy?
05/18/05: CAFTA vote about more than trade
04/27/05: Exorcising America's many nuclear demons
04/20/05: The death tax emerges as great cross-party unifier
03/23/05: Is Bush Trying to Destroy the UN and World Bank?
03/10/05: The problem with Rum Tum Tuggers
02/24/05: Flying in the face of good ideas
02/16/05: Why we are hostage to granny and her purse
02/02/05: Moral action should be its own reward
01/27/05: It's OK to declare that women are from Venus
01/25/05: Soros should revive the old liberalism
01/11/05: Fannie Mae's story is not one of corporate greed, or executive compensation, or the challenges of accounting regulation standards. It's a story of moral hazard
12/22/04: Focus on growth, not backbiting
12/09/04: Tide of democracy sweeps the globe: Prospects for free elections becoming a trend
11/30/04: Change the tax regime to help America save
11/11/04: Ignore the scaremongers Social Security `crisis' fixable
11/01/04: U.S. election about class, not politics
10/20/04: Reckless and extreme
10/06/04: Under construction: Threat of nuclear proliferation
09/19/04: A no-confidence vote in consumers
09/08/04: Caught in a triangulation traps
09/01/04: Competitive endgame
06/22/04: Oil as a curse
06/16/04: What de Gaulle can teach us about Iraq
05/18/04: Why trade matters in a time of war: Promising steps by U.S. and EU against protectionism
05/12/04: Let's face it, planning your life to reduce your tax bill is a time-honored and legal tradition
04/29/04: Being caught between 2 complicated syndromes: The high cost of living in big cities and the progressive structure of the U.S. tax code
04/20/04: Kerry's Misery Index is just sad
04/15/04: John Kerry's tax the rich mantra won't get the jobs done
04/02/04: Faithful following at the White House
02/25/04: It's back to the Dark Ages on trade
02/20/04: Trust the U.S. or trust Al Qaeda
02/12/04: A Political Year of Yalies: Boola Boola for Meritocracy
02/04/04: Here's what America doesn't need: Another New Deal
01/15/04: Forget Mars, U.S. economy looking like the final frontier
12/30/03: Bob Bartley put morality's place in the market economy
12/18/03: Mission accomplished: 1991's, that is
12/11/03: Shrugging off outdated data: Inside America's economic machine
11/13/03: Leaving a little something for the kids? Good luck
11/05/03: Never, Never will we Desist
09/30/03: Tax, lies and a few supply-side parables
10/09/03: Free markets are the key to rebuilding Iraq
09/25/03: Don't be sentimental, Mr. Bush
08/12/02: Howard Dean, Robin Hood
05/29/02: Berlin Diarist: To believe that by self-improvement and restraint, we can end tyranny
03/27/02: The curse of oil
11/12/02: Political Correctness at the Fed (No joke!)
10/31/02: Local enforcer who has changed national laws
10/12/02: No Mirror for Europe; US is a picture of unity
08/14/02: Keeping your financial eggs at home
07/24/02: New Democrats' unaffordable luxury
06/26/02: The evolution of eminent domain is the story of the lasting power of Supreme Court decisions to alter the American cultural fabric
06/20/02: The distinction between known risk and uncertainty: What was lost in the Martha Stewart flap
06/11/02: Europe, long waiting for a chance to assert itself as independent from the US on the world stage, is clueless to terror's threat
06/04/02: A Cold Warrior's lessons for the Middle East
05/21/02: Geography does matter when it comes to development, but aid must nonetheless be linked to good governance
05/14/02: The increasing number of new claims is hurting innocent companies and making a mockery of the Common Law system
05/09/02: Aid, development and guilt in our times of terror
04/30/02: Wine lovers may at last be able to stray across state borders. The Internet is coming to the aide of free trade
04/23/02: Taxation by way of Madison Avenue
04/17/02: Special relationships and free trade do not mix
04/08/02: Is terror the flip side of globalization?
03/20/02 Bush gives aid but seeks results
03/13/02 The Danger in policy by numbers
02/26/02: States' smokescreen for tax hypocrisy
02/20/02: Echoes of leadership against a global threat
02/13/02: Jackson Vanik May be a Useful Analogy When Thinking About the Middle East
02/07/02: Budgeting for victory: Requiem for a peace dividend
02/05/02: The detectives of 1930s pulp fiction had a nose for clients bearing gifts. Sadly, those consulted by Enron did not
01/22/02: Allow all American children a decent chance
01/15/02: Do not disturb the profit-sharing revolution
01/09/02: It is dangerous to elevate a currency as a political emblem if the need for other economic reforms is obscured
01/03/02: There is only one way for a free thinker to bring up children
12/20/01: Why America's economy always bounces back
12/18/01: When it comes to taxes, Washington lawmakers can learn a thing or two from The Honeymooners
12/13/01: Bush opens a new era
12/12/01: A flamboyant reversal for the Democratic party
12/06/01: Threat of an oil embargo on the U.S. is a bluff
11/29/01: Which is more important--the war or diplomatic comity?
11/20/01: Unbalanced by a wealth of oil and diamonds
10/17/01: Afghanistan Needs a General MacArthur
09/27/01: The US has gained an understanding of the costs of war for which its European allies have hitherto wished in vain
09/13/01: War against terrorism will rise from the ashes
08/15/01: Geography is no excuse for the state's economic stagnation. Its policymakers should take a leaf from Ireland's book
08/07/01: Teamsters may pay a heavy price for winning its batle in Congress
07/25/01: Towards a patent-free nirvana?
07/17/01: History proves the lasting value of tax cuts
07/10/01: Stem cell research has awakened a bitter debate in Washington but voters care more about other electoral issues
07/03/01: America foots the bill for Europe's largesse
06/26/01: America the litigious, land of the lawyer's fee
06/20/01: Five reasons for gloom about global growth
06/18/01: Show pity for Alice in Tax Wonderland
06/13/01: America must take a French lesson in trade
06/11/01: Time to dream the impossible dream for Iraq
06/07/01: Whatever happened to simple?
06/04/01: When the relationship between companies becomes as close as a marriage, the eventual break-up is often very painful
06/01/01: Loving and hating the Bush tax bill
05/30/01: Will Grisham soon be unemployed? In America's courts these days, there's no room left over for legal fiction
05/22/01: Republicans sample the rhetoric of confidence
05/16/01: Boeing has been promised $60m to site its headquarters in Illinois. The deal looks a poor one for taxpayers
05/14/01: Adam Smith in love
05/09/01: Those rotten Russian capitalists
05/07/01: Why tax havens provide shelter for everyone
05/04/01: Middle classes pay for get-the-rich folly
05/01/01: Money can't buy happiness? Think again.
04/26/01: Calling America's rogues and entrepreneurs
04/19/01: High earners right to feel lonely at the top
04/11/01: The right must learn the comfort of strangers
04/04/01: When domestic law arrives by the back door
03/30/01: A Lexus tax cut suits the jalopy driver
03/27/01: The unchallenged dominance of King Dollar
03/20/01: Natural selection of an intellectual aristocracy
03/16/01: The hidden danger of a regulatory recession
03/14/01: Is the American condition that boring? Why so many Oscar nominated movies aren't set in America
03/07/01: Trampling on the theory of path dependence
03/05/01: Fighting the good fight
03/01/01: It is time for Fannie and Freddie to grow up
02/27/01: IT's important
02/22/01: The guilty conscience of America's millionaires
02/14/01: The benefits of helping the 'rich'
02/09/01: The Danger and Promise of the Bush Schools Plan
02/05/01: Crack and Compassion
01/31/01: Debt is good
01/29/01: Clueless
01/24/01: A gloomy end for a half-hearted undertaking
01/17/01: The challenge of an ally with its own mind
01/15/01: An unexpected American family portrait
01/10/01: A fitting legacy for America's beloved dictator
01/08/01: The trick of tax 'convenience'
01/03/01: Time to stop blaming Greenspan over taxes
12/11/00: So smart they're dumb
12/06/00: How economic bad news came good for Bush
12/04/00: The Boies factor 11/30/00: "The inevitable demands for recounts erupted like acne…"
11/28/00: Fair play and the rules of the electoral game
11/23/00: The shining prospect beyond a cloudy election
11/21/00: Try the Cleveland model
11/16/00: A surprising winner emerges in the US election
11/09/00: Those powerful expats
11/07/00:
What's right for America versus what works
11/02/00: Time to turn off big government's autopilot
10/30/00: Canada beating America in financial sensibility
10/26/00: When progressiveness leads to backwardness
10/24/00: The most accurate poll
10/19/00: The Middle East tells us the hawks were right
10/17/00: The split personalities of America's super rich
10/10/00: 'Equity Rights' or Wake up and Smell the Starbucks
10/04/00: Trapped in the basement of global capitalism
09/21/00: The final act of a grand presidential tragedy
09/21/00: Europeans strike back at the fuel tax monster. Should Americans follow?
09/18/00: First steps to success
09/13/00: America rejects the human rights transplant
09/07/00: Minimum wage, maximum cost
09/05/00: Prudent Al Gore plans some serious spending
08/31/00: A revolution fails to bring power to the people
08/28/00: A reali$tic poll
08/21/00: "I Goofed"
08/16/00: Part of the union, but not part of the party
08/09/00: Silicon Alley Secrets
08/02/00: Radical Republicans warm up for Philadelphia
07/31/00: I'll Cry if I Want To
07/27/00: Cold warrior of the new world
07/25/00: The Estate Tax will drop dead
07/18/00: Shooting down the anti-missile defence myths
07/14/00: A convenient punchbag for America's leaders
07/07/00: How to destroy the pharmaceutical industry
07/05/00: Patriots and bleeding hearts
06/30/00: Candidates beware: New Washington consensus on robust growth stands the old wisdom on its head
06/28/00: White America's flight to educational quality
06/26/00: How Hillary inspired the feminist infobabes
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