The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Patrick Appel James Pethokoukis cites a study by Macroeconomic Advisers: The Macroeconomic Advisers, LLC (MA) Presidential election model predicts that Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama will win 54.8 percent of the two-party popular vote and Republican presidential candidate...
Michelle Malkin (Free subscription) | yesterday | Politics
Borrow. Spend. Repeat.
Newmark's Door (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
I was going to criticize "The Audacity of Growth" by Sebastian Mallaby of the Washington Post, but James Pethokoukis has already done a fine job. But I'll add some comments on Mallaby's next-to-last paragraph: The one certainty about education is...
Uncertain Principles (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Via Will Wilkinson , James Pethokoukis at US News considers the state of the economy , and draws the same conclusions I did , for exactly the opposite reasons: My theory is that the amazing resilience of the American economy through this slowdown--as well as the lack of a bad recession in a generation--is indirect proof that the 25-year economic expansion that started in 1982 made us far richer as...
Suitable For Mixed Company (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
James Pethokoukis , writing at the Capital Commerce column at U.S. News & World Report, has a July 18, 2008, column under the headline, Dissecting Al Gore's $5 Trillion Energy Plan , which begins: In a speech yesterday here in Washington, Al Gore challenged the United States to "produce every kilowatt of electricity through wind, sun, and other Earth-friendly energy sources within 10 years. This goal...
Cafe Hayek (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
James Pethokoukis gives Al Gore the benefit of the doubt and assumes that the costs are linear. I don't think they would be. Worth reading just for the first paragraph.
Say Anything (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
James Pethokoukis : In a speech yesterday here in Washington, Al Gore challenged the United States to “produce every kilowatt of electricity through wind, sun, and other Earth-friendly energy sources within 10 years. This goal is achievable, affordable, and transformative.” (Well, the goal is at least one of those things.) Gore compared the zero-carbon effort to the Apollo program. And the comparison...
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
James Pethokoukis tallies the cost of Gore's call for 100% renewable energy by 2018: By my math, using Pickens's numbers, converting the whole economy to renewable energy in a short period of time might cost $5 trillion—and that is if...
Dean's World (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008 | Other
By Stephen Den Beste, here. I pretty much agree with all of it. Most alternative energy is never going to be useful for anything other than specialty and niche applications. (Via Instapundit.)
Townhall.com (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
James Pethokoukis has "4 Reasons the Weak Economy is Now Helping McCain."... I would add a 5th. Nervous people are less adventurous. McCain's experience makes him a safer pick. Hope and change are great when things...
Market Movers (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008 | Politics
There's a lot of talk in the blogosphere about John McCain's pledge to balance the federal budget by the end of his first term in office. The NYT has two articles, by Michael Cooper and Robert Pear , about whether such a thing is possible. Brad DeLong is scathing, of course, saying that " the only proper response is derision and laughter," and adding for good measure that McCain is displaying "the...
Newmark's Door (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
. . . you may have missed the hot new meme, "Everything Sucks". It apparently started with this over-the-top AP piece, "Everything Seemingly Spinning Out of Control". You can catch up quickly at BuzzFeed. Fortunately, we have James Pethokoukis to...
Newmark's Door (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
While I think the economy faces, both short-term and long-term, some serious problems, James Pethokoukis makes some good points in "Why the Economy Is Better Than You Think". If you could swap the American economy for someone else's long term—China's,...
Ed Driscoll.com (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
We've previously linked to responses from James Lileks and James Pethokoukis, but found via Tim Blair, this is the perfect rebuttal to AP's Doomsday rhetoric:...
Ed Driscoll.com (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
I quoted James Lileks' take on AP's feverish doomsday piece yesterday, and James Pethokoukis describes AP's screed thusly:"I know you're just a reporter, but you used to be a person, right?" is a quote from the film Deep Impact and...
