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#31 Holman Jenkins
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Holman Jenkins has written editorials for The Wall Street Journal since 1992 and currently is the author of the paper's “Business World” column.
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Jenkins is a steadfast proponent of American business and the free market. For years, he advanced his libertarian economic philosophy and opposition to big government in a column aptly titled "It's Your Money." He rarely misses an opportunity to challenge his ideological opponent at The Times, the more liberal Paul Krugman, whose ideas Jenkins has dubbed "Krugmanomics."
The 9/11 attacks led Jenkins to join neoconservative foreign-policy hawks, but he has since returned to writing about business and economics for the most part. A legacy of this dabbling, however, remains in Jenkins’s wariness and mistrust of China’s rising influence.
Jenkins is a steadfast proponent of American business and the free market. For years, he advanced his libertarian economic philosophy and opposition to big government in a column aptly titled "It's Your Money." He rarely misses an opportunity to challenge his ideological opponent at The Times, the more liberal Paul Krugman, whose ideas Jenkins has dubbed "Krugmanomics."
The 9/11 attacks led Jenkins to join neoconservative foreign-policy hawks, but he has since returned to writing about business and economics for the most part. A legacy of this dabbling, however, remains in Jenkins’s wariness and mistrust of China’s rising influence.
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February 3, 2010
Health Care Reform
Is Obama Ready to Be President?
“A program delivering ice-cream sandwiches to Eskimos is a good one by Obama standards as long as Eskimos are receiving ice-cream sandwiches.”
January 29, 2010
Technology
Toyota's Ghost in the Machine
“In an age when cars are controlled by computers and software code, are claims of unintended acceleration ever possible to refute?”
January 27, 2010
Goldman Sachs
The Never-Ending, Goldman-AIG Saga
“A lot of considerations got pushed aside in the rush to rescue AIG, which we still suspect was done to stave off a financial crisis. But rushed work is sloppy work.”
January 22, 2010
Technology
China, Google and the Cloud Wars
“Google may deserve every salaam for its willingness to go to war with China over its users' data privacy, but it has been careful not to advertise that that's what the showdown is really about.”
January 19, 2010
Recovering from Recession
Obama's Double-Dealing Bank Tax
“Obama and Geithner are sticking it to bank shareholders simply because it's safe to do so (safer, say, than threatening the Chinese with losses on their massive holdings of Fannie and Freddie IOUs).”
January 15, 2010
Automaker Crisis
Keep on Truckin', Detroit
“How this plan to turn a Franco-Japanese auto company into a ward of the U.S. taxpayer plays out will be interesting to watch.”
January 12, 2010
Bank Bailouts
Bashing Bankers Is a Political Duty
“Do bankers deserve it? Of course not. Do you deserve your good looks, good health or good luck in choice of parents and/or country you were born in?”
January 6, 2010
Technology
The Future on TV
“Here's a guess at what TV viewing will look in five years: You will point an iPhone-like device at the nearest screen in order to play any kind of video, whether stored on the device's own memory, downloaded from a third-party site or plucked from an over-the-air signal.”
December 30, 2009
Federal Agencies
Two Cheers for Airport Security
“Yes, mad, radical Islam is still a problem in the world—but the big news is what's happening in Tehran, not what almost happened on Northwest flight 253.”
December 22, 2009
Bank Bailouts
Citigroup Untarped
“Once again Citigroup looks like the sad sack of the bunch as banks exit TARP, thanks to its poorly orchestrated capital raising and the government's abortive attempt to sell down its own stake last week.”
December 16, 2009
Law
The Backdating Molehill Revisited
“It pains us, naturally, to see our forecasts and premonitions borne out in such exacting detail in the government's backdating prosecutions—why didn't we take our moment of searing foresight to the dog track instead?”
December 9, 2009
NBC-Comcast Deal
The Rabbit-Ear Wars
“In short, one picture is starting to come in clearly: The spectrum puzzle won't be solved by the clean and simple deal the agency envisioned just a month ago.”
December 2, 2009
Big Business
Bring Back the 'Off' Switch
“The world needs simple, straightforward on-off switches, with the inestimable virtue of having only two states -- on and off.”
November 25, 2009
Bank Bailouts
The Ugly AIG Post-Mortem
“The TARP Inspector General's report has a lot more to say about the rating agencies than it does about Goldman Sachs.”