David P. Goldman

George Gilder’s enthusiasm has always been infectious. In his recent book it is feverish. His 1981 bestseller Wealth and Poverty became the most influential tract of the Reagan era because his passion for the possibilities of capitalism inspired readers in a way that deeper texts could not. . . . . Continue Reading »

The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time by Judith Shulevitz Random House, 246 pages, $26 “At some point we all look for a Sabbath, whether or not that’s what we call it.” Thus, Judith Shulevitz begins this part memoir, part learned excursus through the theology of . . . . Continue Reading »

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has now accepted “proximity negotiations” under American pressure, amid reports that the Israeli government has quietly frozen housing construction in East Jerusalem. Evidently the Obama administration wants to put something resembling a . . . . Continue Reading »

A favorite joke about the Obama administration, that is, about President Obama’s penchant for running the government out of his Blackberry rather than through his cabinet, used to go as follows: “Quick, who’s the National Security Advisor?” The National Security . . . . Continue Reading »

“South Park” is disgusting, blasphemous, and occasionally hilarious out of all bounds. In the past it has taken on the Catholic Church , the Jews , evangelicals , Mormons , Scientology , Christmas , and virtually every institution and value and public figure one might mention. It took an extra . . . . Continue Reading »

“South Park” is disgusting, blasphemous, and occasionally hilarious out of all bounds. In the past it has taken on the Catholic Church, the Jews, evangelicals, Mormons, Scientology, Christmas, and virtually every institution and value and public figure one might mention. It took an extra . . . . Continue Reading »

If you eliminate corruption in Greece, I said recently on CNBC’s “The Kudlow Report,” you destroy the social fabric. Greek society is a scam funded by foreign creditors in which virtually all social strata participate. And now it’s coming to a crashing close.Goldman, . . . . Continue Reading »

In the new corporatism, where governments bail out banks and banks bail out the government, the question continuously arises: who’s the senior partner in the merger?The government bailed out the banks, of course. The banks are now financing the deficits of governments. As I’ve documented . . . . Continue Reading »

Overnight the Republicans have discovered that the Goldman Sachs fraud case is not only a club that Obama can use to beat them into submission over regulatory reform, but also a club that the Republicans can use to beat Obama for turning his administration over to the Giant Vampire . . . . Continue Reading »

I’ll be on the Kudlow Report at 7 p.m. talking about collateralized debt obligations (CDO’s). My crib sheet: There is very clear case for CDOs: the most obvious is that they are now an important vehicle for loans to medium-sized business at a time when the banks have reduced their loan . . . . Continue Reading »