Wall Street Journal

Life During the Bubble Days

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 14:49
A novel about disparate lives—a banker and his shopaholic wife, a Senegalese soccer star and a Banksy-like graffiti artist—linked by one street in London. Sam Sacks reviews "Capital" by John Lanchester.


Crovitz: Google Counterattacks China

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 14:49
The company is telling users when 'state-sponsored attackers' are compromising their accounts.


Randall Stephenson: Spectrum and the Wireless Revolution

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 14:49
The demand for mobile data is doubling every year. The U.S. needs policy changes to keep up.


Europe's Latest Bailout

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 14:49
Greece, Ireland, Portugal and now Spanish banks.


Republicans Against Reform

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 14:49
Congress protects the business model of money-market funds.


The Wisconsin Money Excuse

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 14:49
When liberals lose, it can't be because their ideas were unpopular.


Michael McConnell: Citizens United and the Wisconsin Vote

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 14:49
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett got millions in support from unions, whose contributions were legitimized by the Supreme Court.


Notable & Quotable

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 14:49
Ron Haskins of the Brookings Institution on the relationship between individual initiative and poverty.


Eric Posner: The Absurd International Criminal Court

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 14:49
After 10 years and hundreds of millions of dollars, it has completed precisely one trial.


Thomas Hoenig: No More Welfare for Banks

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 14:49
The FDIC and the taxpayer are the underwriters of too much private risk taking.


O'Grady: Castro Endorses Obama

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 14:49
The dictator's daughter gets a visa to make speeches here while the regime continues to hold an American hostage.


Free to Choose, and Conserve

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 14:49
Eager to protect what has been inherited from the past, conservatives might want to think about habitats as well as habits of thought. Michael J. Ybarra reviews "How to Think Seriously About the Planet."


Best of the Web Today: Mission Accomplished

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 14:49
"The private sector is doing fine." The man who said so isn't.


Jenkins: Google in the Crosshairs

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 14:49
To accommodate rent-seeking is the modern function of antitrust. It's no use pretending otherwise.


The President on Growth

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 14:49
An instructive Friday press conference.


Honey, I Shrunk the Entitlement

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 14:49
Another budget ruse that disguises ObamaCare's real costs.


Tom Fanning: The Natural Gas Skeptic

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 14:49
'Nobody can sit here and tell me that it's going to be safe forever, safe in terms of economics and reliability,' says the Southern Company CEO.


A Tale of Two Soccer Hosts

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 14:49
Similar countries, two European destinies.


Steven Malanga: State Politicians and the Public Pension Cookie Jar

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 14:49
Powerful government unions drive up spending. But so do legislators who would lose their outlandish retirement perks if serious reform passed.


Notable & Quotable

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2024-11-26 14:49
Economist Robert Higgs on the mistaken Keynesian focus on 'aggregate,' economy-wide measurements.


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