What I’m Reading — July 30th

July 30th, 2009
by Nathaniel Ward

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Mark Steyn on the Birthers. "A true conspiracy theorist would surely believe that Obama deliberately started the birth-certificate business in order to make it easier to dismiss his opponents as deranged."
A Time for Choosing, Redux. "For centrists in both parties the moment has come to decide which side of the public-private divide they want the U.S. and its future workers to be on."
Can the Fed Prevent Bubbles? The new president of the New York Federal Reserve, Donald Luskin writes, "thinks the Fed should be responsible for identifying and preventing asset-price bubbles. Considering that the Fed’s track record reveals more skill at causing bubbles than preventing them, this is a very dangerous idea."

Nathaniel Ward