Americans obsessed over personal finance during the last forty years as never before. So how come so many of us wound up broke? Here’s the little-known story.
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Posted inJuly/August 2012
Too Important to Fail
Predatory lending still poses a systemic risk to the economy. Will Obama’s new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau succeed in taming it, or will the agency be strangled in its crib?
Posted inGovernment, July/August 2012, Magazine
The Asset Agenda
Signature policy ideas for building the wealth of ordinary Americans.
Posted inGovernment, July/August 2012, Magazine
Michael Sherradden’s Compounding Interest
Two decades ago an obscure academic revolutionized thinking about poverty. Now his insights might just save the middle class.
Posted inGovernment, Magazine, May/June 2012
A Fish Story
How an angler and two government bureaucrats may have saved the Atlantic Ocean.
Posted inGovernment, Magazine, March/April 2012
We Can Live with a Nuclear Iran
Fears of a bomb in Tehran’s hands are overhyped, and a war to prevent it would be a disaster.
Posted inGovernment, Magazine, March/April 2012
Good News First, Bad News Never
How the Peace Corps believes its own PR, looks past its mistakes, and shafts volunteers in the process.
Posted inGovernment, Magazine, March/April 2012
Terminal Sickness
How a thirty-year-old policy of deregulation is slowly killing America’s airline system—and taking down Cincinnati, Memphis, and St. Louis with it.
Posted inGovernment, Magazine, March/April 2012
The Crackdown
How the United States looked the other way while Bahrain crushed the Arab Spring’s most ill-fated uprising.
Posted inBooks, Government, January/February 2012, Magazine
The Spy Who Came In from the Heat
How an idealistic spy in Asia challenged the American way of war, and what his tragedy teaches us about finding allies today.
