Page 8 - Robert Bartley News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

By Joel Kotkin Random House ¨ 327 pp. ¨ $24.00 Published in Peter Brimelow’s Alien Nation, a meditation on the remaking of contemporary America through immigration, reminds me of the most famous of all "spaghetti" westerns. In this book, you’ll find the good (a little), the bad (a lot), and the ugly (altogether too much). Although there is a great need for thoughtful criticism of our immigration system—a topic that incites passionate sentiments—you won’t find much of it here. First, the good. Brimelow, a senior editor at Forbes, is at his strongest in assembling various critiqu...

Hobby Lobby decisions. They may now exercise free speech rights through unlimited political spending and enjoy freedom of religion by denying employee health care coverage for birth control pills, diaphragms, and IUDs. As Mitt Romney famously chided a heckler at the 2011 Iowa State Fair, “Corporations are people, my friend.” But not even today’s new, improved Romney would ever suggest that corporations are people when they pay their taxes. Suggest to a conservative that these notional human beings should pay the same income tax as actual human beings, and he or she will slam into rever...

Walter Mondale, RIP The news that Walter Mondale was in extremis had circulated a few days ago, and blurted out, predictably, by Jimmy Carter, about whom Mondale said on many occasions after 1980, “I never understood how Carter’s political mind worked. Carter’s got the coldest political nose of any politician I ever met.” It is still not well known that Mondale considered resigning as Vice President during Carter’s infamous navel-gazing Camp David retreat in July 1979 that gave us the awful “malaise” speech. Mondale was conventional enough to know Carter had lost his grip. Mon...

ALASTAIR GRANT/The Associated Press Robert A. Mundell, a Nobel Prize-winning economist whose theorizing opened the door to understanding the workings of global finance and the modern-day international economy, while his more iconoclastic views on economic policy fostered the creation of the euro and the adoption of the tax-cutting approach known as supply-side economics, died Sunday at his home, a Renaissance-era palazzo that he and his wife restored, near Siena, Italy. He was 88. The cause was cholangiocarcinoma, cancer of the bile duct, said his wife, Valerie Natsios-Mundell. Mr. Mundell, a...

Robert A. Mundell, a Father of the Euro and Reaganomics, Dies at 88 His insights on global finance earned him a Nobel, while his more iconoclastic theories fostered the adoption of a single European currency and supply-side economics. Robert A. Mundell in 2011. “You have created modern open-economy macroeconomics,” one colleague wrote. “My generation of economists owe you all that we know.”Credit...Forbes Conrad/Bloomberg April 5, 2021Updated 6:36 p.m. ET Robert A. Mundell, a Nobel Prize-winning economist whose theorizing opened the door to understanding the workings of global finance...