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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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Climate Change: A Perilous Path

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Bjorn Lomborg - Sep. 21 (Opinion) - Evidence is growing that relatively cheap policies like climate engineering and non-carbon energy research could effectively prevent suffering from global warming, both in the short and long term. Unfortunately, political leaders gathering at a special meeting of the United Nations in New York this week will focus on a very different response.

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Lehman's Lesson

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Roy C. Smith - Sep. 15 (Opinion) - Letting Lehman go was a mistake. The event triggered a three-month market panic the likes of which no one living can remember, shutting down the interbank credit market and the commercial paper market and causing an instant run on money-market funds, and on the debt and stock prices of other large banks and investment banks.

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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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When Democrats Turns On Themselves

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By David Gerstein - Jul. 08 (Opinion) - Obama needs to at least have the patina of bipartisanship. If the moderate Republicans watch their fellow centrists on the other side of the aisle resist their own base, they have even less of an incentive to meet the president in the left's unrealistic sense of the middle.

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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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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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Top College Towns For Jobs

Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Matt Woolsey - May. 20 (Special Report) - Research universities tend to be great environments for business, as they’re flush with cheap, highly talented labor (recent grads), and the massive research and development budgets universities have. Plenty of the world’s top companies, including Dell ( DELL - news - people ), Cisco Systems ( CSCO - news - people ) and Google ( GOOG - news - people ), began in university settings.

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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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How Carbon Caps Could Help Detroit

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Andy Stone - Apr. 25 (News Report) - The auto industry that emerges from the current crisis will face tough new environmental standards, and that's not all bad.

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Tax Tea Party Time, Part Two

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Bruce Bartlett - Apr. 16 (Opinion) - many protesters implicitly assume that that the deficit has increased solely as a result of Barack Obama's policies. But in fact, the Congressional Budget Office was projecting a deficit of more than $1 trillion this year back in January, before any of Obama's policies had been enacted, and a cumulative deficit of $4.3 trillion through 2019. (CBO made no assumptions about what his policies might be in making its projection.)

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With Oil Cheap, Interest Fades In Offshore Drilling Rights

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Jesse Bogan - Mar. 19 (News Report) - Dismal oil and natural gas prices led to lackluster bidding in an auction of federal offshore leases in the busiest region of the Gulf of Mexico.

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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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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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Harvard: The Inside Story of Its Finance Meltdown

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By Bernard Condon, Nathan Vardi - Feb. 28 (News Report) - Stocks were tumbling last fall as the new school year began, but at Harvard University it was as if the boom had never ended. Workers were digging across the river from Harvard's Cambridge, Mass. home, the start of a grand expansion that was to eventually almost double the size of the university. Budgets were plump, and students from middle-class families were getting big tuition breaks under an ambitious new financial aid program. The lavish spending was made possible by the earnings from Harvard's $36.9 billion endowment, the world's largest. That pot was supposed to be good for $1.4 billion in annual earnings. Behind the scenes, though, a different story was unfolding.

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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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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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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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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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Who Gives The Most?

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By Elisabeth Eaves - Dec. 26 (Opinion) - Americans give more to charity, per capita and as a percentage of gross domestic product, than the citizens of other nations. But why? It would be nice to believe that as a group they are just more generous. Of course, it's more complicated than that. For instance in the U.S., which is notably religious among wealthy Western nations, about a third of all charitable giving goes to houses of worship. Some of that money, in turn, goes to projects that have an obvious benefit to the needy, like soup kitchens. But some does not, rather going toward paying the church secretary and the rent. Volunteerism also complicates the picture. The Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project at the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies compiled a ranking of private philanthropy in 36 countries from 1995 to 2002. Based on giving alone, the U.S. comes first, giving 1.85% of GDP, followed by Israel at 1.34% and Canada at 1.17%. But based on volunteerism alone, the Netherlands comes first, followed by Sweden and then the U.S.

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