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| Sat, 15 Oct 2005 18:00:00 EST Lying as a qualification for office |
| Ed Whalen, head of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, quotes me in this item on National Review Online's Bench Memos blog as saying that a willingness to lie is an essential quality in a university president these days. The quote is accurate but may seem puzzling to some readers. Let me explain. |
| Sat, 15 Oct 2005 18:00:00 EST Delphi |
| The bankruptcy of Delphi is hometown news for me. When I visit my home state of Michigan, I often drive by the Delphi headquarters on I-75 in Troy. Delphi was spun off from General Motors in 1999; as I understand it, it used to be GM's Delco parts division. Delco, by the way, was the company acquired by GM that brought to the larger corporation Alfred P. Sloan, the longtime GM chairman and architect of what became the dominant U.S. auto company from the 1920s to the 1960s. Sloan's book, My Years With General Motors, was long considered the primer of how to organize and manage a large manufacturing corporation. |
| Sat, 15 Oct 2005 18:00:00 EST Opinion on Iraq |
| Greenspan's Olympian view of the economy over decades and even centuries is surely worth pondering. The Economics 1 I learned at Harvard in 1964 said that Keynesian economics had all the answers: The course of progress in history is to move from less to more government regulation and government manipulation of the private sector economy, and today (that is, 1964), we have figured out just how to manipulate it. |
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