Commentary - America's Future

By AF Editors • Nov 02,2009

The man who predicted the financial crisis, Part III

I’m not an aggressive consumer of financial journalism, so it has to be something of a coincidence that I’ve come across three separate items that chronicle the dark predictions of...

By AF Editors • Nov 02,2009

The man who predicted the financial crisis, Part II

In the mid-1990’s, Yale economist Robert Shiller predicted the dot-com bubble would burst. In 2005, Shiller predicted the housing bubble would burst. Why? In the wake of the dot-com crash,...

By AF Editors • Nov 02,2009

The man who predicted the financial crisis, Part I

The weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal profiled John Paulson, whose firm made $15 billion by systematically betting against the value of American homes. Paulson himself took home $4...

By AF Editors • Nov 02,2009

A liberal dollop of irony

From the lead column in last week’s New Yorker: The market for news is narrowing down to people who need an ideological fix. Of course, that comment was directed at...

By Sonny Bunch • Nov 02,2009

The banality of “The Banality of Evil.”

Ron Rosenbaum: Adolf Eichmann was, of course, in no way a banal bureaucrat: He just portrayed himself as one while on trial for his life. Eichmann was a vicious and...

By Sonny Bunch • Nov 02,2009

Why should I be surprised?

Hot on the heels of the government takeover of GM — you remember, the car company that was run into the ground by idiot management and overbearing unions? Yeah, that...