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The Europeanization Of America

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By Bruce Bartlett - Nov. 13 (Opinion) - Would it really be so bad?

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'Going Muslim'

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By Tunku Varadarajan - Nov. 09 (Opinion) - "Going postal" is a piquant American phrase that describes the phenomenon of violent rage in which a worker--archetypically a postal worker--"snaps" and guns down his colleagues. As the enormity of the actions of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan sinks in, we

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Not So Unequal, After All

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Brian S. Wesbury And Robert Stein - Oct. 27 (Opinion) - The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. You've heard it over and over again. Many free-market economists have argued against the conventional wisdom, only to be dismissed as out of touch. But an incredible new paper from Northwestern Professor Robert Gordon, a pillar of the "mainstream" academic establishment, says maybe they are right and have been for a long time.

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The Pentagon's New Watchdog - Forbes.com

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Dirk Smillie - Sep. 05 (Interview) - For years, the military has been systematically bouncing reporters from their embed assignments in the middle of their tours simply because they didn't like a particular story a reporter did. The Pentagon established the embedding system to give reporters access to information about what America is fighting for.

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China: Where Poisoning People Is Almost Free

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Vivian Wai-yin Kwok - Aug. 07 (Special Report) - In addition to its cheap labor costs, China has another comparative advantage as the world's factory: Companies often pay almost nothing to pollute China's air, water and soil and to poison its people.

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Is The White House's Organic Garden Toxic To Kids?

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Jeff Stier - Jul. 23 (Comment) - No, according to toxicologists. It ought to be, according to environmentalists.

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The Green Rebellion

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Claudia Rosett - Jun. 18 (Opinion) - With great courage, Iranians have been rising up against the tyranny of their 30-year-old Islamic Republic. This is a weak moment for Iran's terror-based regime, and democracies such as the U.S. should seize the chance to shake it further--and support the protesters in the process--by turning up the heat.

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Iran And The Woman Question

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Francesca Donner - Jun. 18 (Interview) - Iran has a very robust, vibrant, homegrown women's movement that has been in place since the early 2000s. It started as petition movement to collect signatures to ban stoning women to death and has spun out to become the "One Million Signatures Campaign." So this is precisely what I expected.

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Out Of Work And Not Young Anymore

Tue, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Tara Weiss - May. 05 (Special Report) - Most baby boomers didn't expect to find themselves hunting for a job at this point in their careers. But millions of them are doing exactly that right now--and finding it very, very hard.

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The Iranian Empire

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By Melik Kaylan - Mar. 04 (Opinion) - As President Obama considers what to do about Iran, he should be aware of the historical precedents for that country's strategic maneuvers in the region. Iran is in the process of filling the vacuum of the defunct Ottoman Empire's influence in the Middle East and even to some extent in Central Asia.

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Google Disrupts--Again

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By Lee Gomez - Mar. 04 (News Report) - Google has turned the advertising industry upside down. Here's something else the Internet giant is changing: Web sites--both how they are used and how Web designers ought to go about putting them together. Chalk it up to another triumph of less being more. The traditional advice about building a Web site was to spend a lot of time in advance planning its organization, ensuring that all the inside pages fit together in a logical hierarchy. Next, navigation aids were placed on the home page, so that the routes to all that inside content were intuitive and readily apparent. And since first impressions are as important online as off, lots of time and effort should be spent designing the home page, as it would be the first thing your visitors would see.

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Journalism Challenged In A Changing Landscape

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Oxford Analytica - Feb. 16 (News Report) - Throughout the rich countries of the developed world, the audience for broadcast news, especially on television, is falling. The audience for current affairs programs is declining even more rapidly. Where publicly funded broadcasters can continue to support significant news and current affairs divisions, commercial television is cutting back across the board on once prestigious programs. The news they do carry is markedly lighter in content, more concerned with crime and celebrity than has previously been the case. Great U.S. networks that had once kept a legion of correspondents in bureaus throughout the world now have only a handful.

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Does Stimulus Stimulate?

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By Bruce Bartlett - Jan. 23 (Opinion) - In a few weeks, Congress will likely enact the largest fiscal stimulus legislation in history. Surprisingly, the whole idea of such a stimulus is much more controversial among A-list economists than I would have expected, given the depth and breadth of the economic malaise. Although the debate is rather technical, it's important to try to understand it because much is at stake. Eighty years ago, the conventional view among economists was that government had nothing to do with business cycles--it neither caused them nor was there anything it could do about them. They were like the weather; you just coped the best you could.

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Gurus' Guide To 2009

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By Matthew Schifrin - Jan. 21 (Review) - If there ever was a test of investor mettle, 2008 was it. Despite the carnage, hope springs eternal in the investment business. Thus, most advisers and fund managers will readily tell you about bargains now abundant in our financial markets. This special gurus' guide taps some of the wisest practitioners of the investment trade and offers not just specific advice on how to position your portfolio but also investing wisdom that will serve you in the long run. Included is a special interactive pdf containing a video and the 15 favorite investment ideas for 2009 from a select group of Forbes gurus, including value investor John Buckingham, bond expert Richard Lehmann and mutual fund maven Janet Brown.

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Belt And Suspender Buys 2009

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By Nikhil Hutheesing - Jan. 21 (Review) - While Barack Obama's inauguration as the 44th U.S. president did little to help the ailing stock market, many economists think that under his leadership, the economy will begin to recover in mid-to-late 2009. Obama wants to increase investment in our infrastructure by building roads and bridges, investing in alternative energy and providing more affordable health care, among other things. This could mean that, right now, investors have some excellent investment opportunities. Price-to-earnings ratios of big-value stocks are very low, and growth stocks are the cheapest they have been in more than a decade.

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Bush's Legacy By The Numbers

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By Karlyn Bowman - Jan. 12 (Opinion) - My misjudgment stemmed from a misreading of how Americans evaluate presidents. My friend Bill Schneider, CNN's top polling analyst, compares rating a president to choosing a plumber. Character matters--but performance matters more. "When you hire a plumber, you want to know one thing: Can he get the job done?" Schneider asks. You don't want to hear about his draft record or love life.

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Judge orders full review of Duke's Cliffside unit

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By Mike Baker - Dec. 03 (News Report) - A federal judge ordered Duke Energy Corp. on Tuesday to undergo a full environmental assessment of a coal-fired generator under construction in western North Carolina, giving the company 60 days to comply with regulations initially ignored by the Bush administration. The federal judge allowed Duke to continue building its Cliffside unit but dismissed the company's argument that it doesn't need a full assessment to ensure it is using the best-available technology.

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The Day The Web Went Dead

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By Scott Woolley - Dec. 02 (News Report) - On Oct. 30, Sprint Nextel severed its last connection to Cogent Communications, disconnecting two of the Internet's five largest backbones. Instantly, major American and Canadian universities lost contact with each other. Officials in Maine's state government found they couldn't link up with many town governments. Millions of Sprint's wireless broadband customers found themselves cut off from thousands of Web sites

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Beaker Fuel

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By Robert Langreth - Dec. 01 (Special Report) - The limitations of corn-derived ethanol have sent biotech researchers scrambling to devise new biofuels from agricultural waste, algae and other sources that are cheaper, more abundant and don't compete with the food supply. Ethanol producers used 23% of our corn crop last year to make 5% of our car fuel supply. Says gene hunter turned biofuel researcher Craig Venter: "We can't have fuels competing with food. It is already a semidisaster, and it is only going to get worse." People in the corn ethanol business disagree.

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Beijing's Confidence Game

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By Paul Maidment - Nov. 23 (Editorial) - Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reports that provinces across China would add 10 trillion yuan ($1.5 trillion) to the 4 trillion yuan stimulus package that Beijing announced earlier this month. Ten trillion yuan is an eye-catching number.

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What Your Dog Says About You

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By Jeanine Poggi, - Nov. 20 (Opinion) - You can pick up after your pooch and make sure he plays nice, but it's your dog's breed that truly speaks volumes about what kind of owner you are.

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Obama's Victory Speech

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By Barack Obama - Nov. 05 (Speech) - Remarks of President-elect Barack Obama, on Election Night, November 4th, 2008: If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer. still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time ?

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A Clear Mandate For Obama

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By Brian Wingfield - Nov. 05 (News Report) - hange in the nation's direction, voters swept Sen. Barack Hussein Obama into the White House tonight, making him the first African-American elected president of the United States. Obama won by a commanding margin, taking at least 349 of 538 electoral votes from Republican challenger Sen. John McCain, according to projections by television networks, well above the 270 needed for victory. McCain conceded the election just after 11 p.m. ET. "If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer," Obama told a crowd of tens of thousands in his acceptance speech in Chicago.

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McCain Vs. Obama: Economics

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By David R. Henderson - Oct. 28 (Opinion) - Predicting and analyzing the economic policies of either a President McCain or a President Obama is difficult for two reasons. The first reason applies to all candidates in all presidential elections: They often break their promises. But a second reason is unique to this campaign: Because President Bush, with his bailout, has moved the U.S. toward central planning of financial markets and because both McCain and Obama support this central planning, predicting a future president's policies requires predicting how each would centrally plan the economy's finances. No one can do that. Even if candidates don't keep many campaign promises, they often move in the direction they say they would move. So a look at the economic policies they advocate will probably tell us something about future directions. And the differences between Obama and McCain are quite striking--on taxes, spending and health care.

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Is This The Best We Can Do?

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Glenn Harlan Reynolds - Oct. 27 (Opinion) - Having produced a political system that is so miserable it's likely to deter well-balanced people with integrity, and one in which the most important skills involve raising money and looking good on TV, we shouldn't be surprised if we wind up with a lot of people who want the jobs out of a narcissistic desire for importance, or a corrupt desire for power and spoils, and whose chief skills involve getting people to donate cash to their campaigns while looking good on TV. The problem is that a political class made up of corrupt and/or narcissistic money-raisers isn't likely to produce much in the way of good government, and certainly there's not much evidence that we're getting a lot of good government out of the political class that we have.

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