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<title><![CDATA[Jim Manzi - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15630.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Jim Manzi]]></description><category domain="15630">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Real Cost of GM]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Manzi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Megan McArdle  has done consistently excellent reported pieces on the GM bailout, and  her recent evaluation of its net effect on the U.S. Treasury is no  exception. Her bottom line is that the deal caused U.S. taxpayers to:burn $10-20 billion in order to give the company another shot at...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Would Universal Coverage Actually Improve Health?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Manzi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is a debate going on in the blogosphere between Ezra Klein, Arnold Kling, Karl Smith, Tim Carney, and others about, to put it crudely, whether health care really affects health that much. This is, in part, a proxy debate  for whether it is worth it for the U.S. government to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Unbundle the Welfare State]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Manzi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The fundamental issue of political economy in  the Western world has been the same for at least the past 200 years:  drawing the right lines between government authority and individual  initiative. In the broadest terms, freedom has been winning. What the  West has invented through...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Beware the Dangers of Management by Technocrats]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/253510/economics-and-abstraction-jim-manzi</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Manzi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[David Brooks has written a great column arguing that technocratic management of the economy leaves something to be desired. His particular focus is on the growing disillusion with attempts to manage our response to the economic crisis. My favorite part is this:The liberal technicians...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our So-Called Experts]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Manzi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ron Brownstein wrote an article in National Journal arguing sorrowfully that America is the only democracy cursed with a major political party that gives voice to skepticism about the science behind anthropogenic climate change. Jonathan Chait chimed in, and asked at TNR, &ldquo;Why are...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Comfort Food for Liberals on Climate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/blog/critics/78331/liberals-climate-change-economic-impact</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Manzi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bill McKibben has penned a more-in-sorrow-than-anger piece ("Hot Mess") in the current issue of the magazine, shaking his head at conservatives&rsquo; failure to adopt his position on global warming. (It is an almost exact recapitulation of Al Gore&rsquo;s argument in TNR a few months...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Social Science Does--and Doesn't--Know]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Manzi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In early 2009, the United States was engaged in an intense public debate over a proposed $800 billion stimulus bill designed to boost economic activity through government borrowing and spending. James Buchanan, Edward Prescott, Vernon Smith, and Gary Becker, all Nobel laureates in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Climate Change Isn't as Simple as Al Gore Says]]></title>
							<link>http://www.tnr.com/blog/critics/75757/why-the-decision-tackle-climate-change-isn%E2%80%99t-simple-al-gore-says</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Manzi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For years, much of the political right has claimed that global warming is a scientific hoax perpetrated by statists in order to justify further government control over the economy. I have repeatedly pointed out that this is more or less nonsense, usually to audiences that are far less...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Will Obama Do About Gridlock?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Manzi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Enter Your E-Mail Address to Sign UpFriday, January 29, 2010Delayed Reaction to the State of the Union   [Jim Manzi]It has taken me a while to assess my reaction to President Obama&rsquo;s speech. On the whole, I think his supporters should be somewhat dismayed. It struck me as very...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Excellent New Banking Proposal]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Manzi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Enter Your E-Mail Address to Sign UpThursday, January 21, 2010President Obama's Excellent New Banking Proposal   [Jim Manzi]President Obama has outlined a new banking proposal:The White House wants commercial banks that take deposits from customers to be barred from investing on behalf...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can America Keeps Its Edge?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Manzi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[FROM ISSUE NUMBER 2 &#126; WINTER 2010											GO TO TABLE OF CONTENTS									TEXT SIZE A A AJIM MANZIThe United States is in a tough spot. As we dig ourselves out from a serious financial crisis and a deep recession, our very efforts to recover are exacerbating much more fundamental...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dear Senator: Vote Against Cap-and-Trade]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Manhattan-Moment/Dear-Senator_-Why-you-should-vote-against-cap-and-trade-8315351-62718987.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Manzi</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Has Global Warming Stopped?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Costs Outweigh Benefits in Dem Energy Deal]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Manzi</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sotomayor, Wisdom, and Context]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Manzi</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dunce Cap-and-Trade]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Manzi</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats in the White House and Congress are now making the most serious push ever for legislation to force reductions of U.S. carbon-dioxide emissions.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Looking Ahead: How to Improve Obama's Budget Plan]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Proposal is a Disaster]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Tuesday, January 27, 2009The European Social Welfare State Bill   [Jim Manzi]Let&#194;&#146;s start with some basics about the stimulus bill (H.R. 1: the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009).  According to my quick read (so all numbers here are subject to revision) of the Congressional...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GM's Magical Thinking]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jim Manzi</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Detroit: Same Old, Same Old]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Conservatives and Gay Marriage]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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