Banking

JACK LEW, TREASURY GETS A CITIBANKER

  January 28, 2013 Treasury Gets a Citibanker From Wall Street failure to the pinnacle of finance in four short years. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  There probably weren’t many laughs at Citi during the market panic in 2008. But if someone had said that a CAI executive, Jack Lew,  would be the secretary of the

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WHO CAUSED THE FINANCIAL COLLAPSE?

  Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Money for Nothing Who caused the financial collapse? Just about everyone. Lewis E. Lehrman January 14, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 17      The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure  – Why Pure Capitalism Is the World Economy’s Only Hope   by John A. Allison,    McGraw-Hill   320 pages, $28  EXCERPT

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THE HISTORY OF OUR GROWING GOVERNMENT

  Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Real Cliff The staggering debt from decades of continuous government borrowing is about to come due Christopher DeMuth Christopher DeMuth is a distinguished fellow at the Hudson Institute. December 24, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 15 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp were authentic supply-siders,

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THE PERILS OF THE ZERO INTEREST RATE POLICY

  Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) We’ve Been ZIRPed The perils of the zero interest rate policy. Andy Kessler December 24, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 15 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:   Savers are getting ripped off. Interest rates are near zero, yet the inflation rate as of October 2012 was 2.2 percent, which means real

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EXPOSING DODD-FRANK’S ‘ORDERLY LIQUIDATION’

  September 26, 2012 Dodd-Frank’s ‘Orderly Liquidation’ Is Out of Order South Carolina, Oklahoma and Michigan join a federal lawsuit to uphold property rights and checks and balances. By SCOTT PRUITT AND ALAN WILSON Mr. Pruitt is attorney general of Oklahoma. Mr. Wilson is attorney general of South Carolina. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  Title II

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THE MAGNITUDE OF THE MESS WE’RE IN

September 17, 2012 The Magnitude of the Mess We’re In The next Treasury secretary will confront problems so daunting that even Alexander Hamilton would have trouble preserving the full faith and credit of the United States. By George P. Shultz, Michael J. Boskin, John F. Cogan, Allan H. Meltzer and John B. Taylor  –  The

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CLINTON REVISES HISTORY OF ECONOMIC CRISIS

  September 7, 2012 Clinton Uses Democrat Convention To Revise History On Origins Of Crisis INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY Former President Clinton was in familiar form Wednesday night in Charlotte, N.C. Getty Images View Enlarged Image History has rarely seen anything as surreal as former President Clinton riding into Charlotte as a hero rescuing America and President Obama from

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VIDEO – LIFT THE HEAVY BOOT OF REGULATION – REPRESENTATIVE KELLY

CSPAN VIDEO OF REPRESENTATIVE KELLY FROM PENNSYLVANIA SPEAKING BEFORE THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ABOUT THE HEAVY COST OF GOVERNMENT REGULATION ON AMERICAN SMALL BUSINESS – JULY 2012

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THE DISASTROUS DODD-FRANK ACT

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Obamacare for the Financial Industry The disastrous Dodd-Frank Act. Peter J. WallisonPeter J. Wallison is Arthur F. Burns fellow in financial policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. April 9 – April 16, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 29 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  The chairman of this body, [Financial Stability Oversight

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