ARCHIVES: COMMENTARIES, SPEECHES AND OP-EDS
Donald Luskin
NATIONAL REVIEW
Death by Rescue
Monday, November 17, 2008
How botched bailouts doomed companies
that didn't need to fail.
LAZARD GLOBAL INVESTMEMNT FORUM
Ramifications
of Election 2008
October 3, 2008
TARP, Obama, McCain -- what's an
asset allocator to do?
THE WASHINGTON POST
Quit Doling Out That
Bad-Economy Line
September 14, 2008
A nation of exaggerators: Things
today just aren't that bad.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Divided Government Is Best
for the Market
September 12, 2008
The evidence on presidents,
economic growth and stocks.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Obama's Social Security Fine
Print
June 25, 2008
How more taxes now
will mean more taxes later.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Commodity-Price Scapegoats
June 3, 2008
Investment funds are not hoarding
gas.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Our 'Voluntary' Tax Code
November 14, 2007
Hmmm. Perhaps Charlie Rangel is on
to something.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
The Greenspan Myth
September 13, 2007
The last thing Ben Bernanke should
be worrying about is what his predecessor would have done.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Cap-Gains Logic
August 10, 2007
The revenue maximizing tax rate is almost surely
zero.
NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF INVESTMENT PROFESSIONALS
The Secret Behind Our
Unsung Economic Boom
May 2, 2006
Most people don't realize how good things are --
or that the 2003 tax cuts made it all possible.
ORANGE COUNTRY REGISTER
Big Oil: record profit,
record taxes
April 27, 2006
Why slap a windfall profits tax on oil companies
when they are already paying one?
NATIONAL REVIEW
Still Movin' On Up
July 4, 2005
The death of income mobility has been greatly
exaggerated.
THE DETROIT NEWS
Bush Fails to Get Deserved
Credit for Tax Cut Benefits
August 27, 2004
Despite reporting distortions, a
congressional report shows the rich pay proportionately more in taxes while
all income earners do better.
CORPORATE FINANCE COUNCIL OF SAN DIEGO
Outsourcing: Threat or
Menace?
May 6, 2004
The outsourcing controversy is part
of the conspiracy to keep you poor and stupid.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Arnie's Money Man
August 15, 2003
Gone are the hopes that Schwarzenegger would
bring his own brand of Austrian economics.
SOCIETY OF PENSION PROFESSIONALS, DALLAS CHAPTER
The Economy: "It's The
Politics, Stupid!"
July 15, 2003
Politics drives the economy, and now more
than ever.
RUSSELL 20-20 ASSOCIATION
The Economics of Mass
Destruction
May 7, 2003
The science of economics has been
weaponized, and has fallen under control of political warriors.
THE CATO INSTITUTE
The Jihad
Against Accounting Fraud
September 27, 2002
The legislative attack on accounting fraud isn't
about accounting -- it's about political power, and higher taxes.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Letters re: Another
Option on Options
September 17, 2002
Luskin and Brenner strike back, answering a
critic of their approach to accounting for options expense.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Another Option on Options
September 3, 2002
The zero-expense frying pan or the fair-value
fire? There's a better solution.
THE NATIONAL POST
Options: Perception and
Reality
June 25, 2002
Options induce management to dedicate much effort and time to
managing perceptions rather than the company.
THE NATIONAL POST
Where Options Belong
May 29, 2002
The current push to "expense" stock options is
economically wrong. The right solution is to put them on the company's
balance sheet.
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR
Options Options
May/June 2002
Options are risky derivatives that represent
risky claims on human capital -- they should appear on companies' balance
sheets.
NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION ISSUE BRIEF
The Levin-McCain Stock Option Tax Hike: An Option Americans Can’t Afford
April 16, 2002
Legislation masquerading as a post-Enron
financial reform conceals a monstrous multi-billion-dollar tax hike.
PENSIONS & INVESTMENTS
Council of Institutional
Investors Wish may Backfire
April 15, 2002
Under Senate Bill 1940, every
company that issues stock options would be hit with an enormous tax hike --
but technology companies that use options extensively would be hit
especially hard.
SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
Options Legislation would
Bring On a Tech Industry Depression
March 26, 2002
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