Amity Shlaes compares the Buffett Rule to Andrew Mellon's campaign to end tax breaks for the rich in the 1920s.

Amity Shlaes uses Frederic Bastiat's "Broken Windows" parable to examine the connection between government spending and economic activity.

Amity Shlaes points to greater defense spending as a superior form of economic stimulus.

Amity Shlaes wants Congress to get busy doing nothing.

Amity Shlaes advises President Obama to avoid crisis-mode decisionmaking by thinking long-term.

Amity Shlaes argues that Newt Gingrich's strategies in the mid-'90s budget battles were effective in achieving debt and deficit reductions.

Amity Shlaes urges Christine Lagarde to emphasize clarity over comity in discussing the future of the euro.

Amity Shlaes points out that running a business can be very different from running an economy.

Amity Shlaes examines how minimum wage laws affect young job-seekers.

Amity Shlaes draws on Volcker-era lessons to argue the Fed should not be so accommodating of inflation.

Amity Shlaes says high labor costs and political uncertainty are overlooked in understanding what prolonged the Great Depression.

Amity Shlaes discusses presidential approaches to the federal debt.

Amity Shlaes argues that the automatic debt-control measures modeled after the 1985 Gramm-Rudman plan that are now being proposed may not achieve their intended result.

Amity Shlaes criticizes the erosion of teachers' authority in the classroom.

President Obama's round of speeches on reducing the deficit should put more emphasis on restoring U.S. competitiveness and less on the sacrifices rich Americans must make to pay down the country's debts, says CFR's Amity Shlaes.

Amity Shlaes discusses the difficulty of reforming the tax code.

Amity Shlaes says that anyone who wants to block tax increases before it's too late ought to support Paul Ryan's budget plan.

Amity Shlaes discusses the relationship between rainfall and regime type.

Amith Shlaes discusses Andrew Ferguson's Crazy U: One Dad's Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College.

Amity Shlaes says that to help Japan, the United States should promote free trade agreements.