Op-Eds and Blogs

<b>Printed in Investor's Business Daily, July 27th, 2011</b> It's easy to have missed it, but the U.S. is now entering the third year of the Obama "recovery." The economy stopped shrinking in 2009, and White House economists tell us that it has been growing ever since. But while some corporate balance sheets have improved, job growth remains anemic. And analysts have even begun to ask whether we're heading into another stretch of mass layoffs. You would think that Washington would be focused on job creation. Instead — all too often — Washington seems intent on adding new layers of job-killing regulation.