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Friday Privatization News Highlights (8/12/2011 edition)

By Leonard Gilroy
August 12, 2011

Getting a Beer in Iowa Is Tougher Than You Think

The Ames straw poll is on Saturday. You probably need a drink.

By Harry Graver
August 12, 2011

Most Market-Oriented Education City in America Still Rocking Kids World

By Lisa Snell
August 12, 2011

What Would You Do to Improve Job Growth?

Reason asks economists, writers, and wonks for real ways to increase job growth

By Robert Higgs, Fred Smith, Alex Tabarrok, Peter Schiff, Walter Olson, Allan Meltzer, John Berlau, Jeffrey Miron, Bruce Bartlett, Bryan Caplan, Donald J. Boudreaux, John Stossel, Amity Shlaes and Deirdre McCloskey
August 12, 2011

Colorado Public Utilities Commission Dabbling in Taxicab Regulatory Reform

By Harris Kenny
August 11, 2011

Problems With a Federal Rental Program

By Anthony Randazzo
August 11, 2011

Did BoA Just Get Bailed Out?

By Anthony Randazzo
August 10, 2011

Pro-Stimulus Economist Calls Fed Policy a Failure

By James Groth
August 10, 2011

The Great 9/11 Dust Debate

Science finds no link between WTC dust and cancer. Politicians want to pay for treatment anyway.

By Jeff Stier
August 9, 2011

Sorkin Being Sorkin

By Anthony Randazzo
August 9, 2011

The Fed’s Limited Options

By Anthony Randazzo
August 9, 2011

Right Now, the Law’s on Amazon’s Side

By Steven Titch
August 9, 2011

Obamaphiles Still Longing for Camelot

Despite setbacks, failures, and outright betrayals, Obamaphiles in the intelligentsia are finding it hard to fall out of love with "the One"

By Gene Healy
August 9, 2011

A Terrible Conforming Loan Idea

By Anthony Randazzo
August 9, 2011

Should Political Concerns Guide Debt Downgrade Decisions

By Anthony Randazzo
August 9, 2011

Fiscal Hawks vs. Defense Hawks

The potential defense cuts in the debt deal spell the beginning of the end of the neoconservative military agenda

By Shikha Dalmia
August 9, 2011

Newly Downgraded Fannie Mae Reaches $100 Billion in Bailout Funds

By Anthony Randazzo
August 9, 2011

Teacherapocalypse NOT: In California Less Education Spending Equals Higher Test Scores

By Lisa Snell
August 8, 2011