Impressive Carter nominees also include Bank of America CEO A.W. Clausen to succeed Robert McNamara as president of the World Bank. With considerable fanfare, McNamara greatly increased development aid to very poor countries. With much less publicity, Clausen strengthened the Bank’s challenged balance sheet.

As may now be apparent, I disagree with my colleague Michael Sean Winters who wrote that James Earl Carter Jr. was a failed politician. It is a mistake to equate Carter's nonelection with being a political failure.

One of the most influential figures in U.S. history was the economist Milton Friedman, an advocate of free markets and deregulation, “neoliberalism” as it came to be known. His ideas became so central to policymaking that it is often said that the last half-century has been the Age of Friedman.

Most U.S. stocks rose following an encouraging update on inflation, but drops for Eli Lilly and some other influential stocks kept indexes in check. The S&P 500 edged up 0.1%

World stocks have retreated after U.S. stocks fell as good news on the job market raised worries over inflation.

Drops for Eli Lilly and other influential companies are weighing on U.S. indexes. The S&P 500 slipped 0.3% Tuesday, even though the majority of stocks in the index rose. The

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