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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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CAPTAIN MICHIO AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW

Updated March 9, 2012, 7:17 p.m. ET Humans are born with the curiosity of scientists but switch to investment banking. By BRIAN BOLDUC New York By 2020, the word “computer” will have vanished from the English language, physicist Michio Kaku predicts. Every 18 months, computer power doubles, he notes, so in eight years, a microchip

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VIDEO – OBAMA & 2016 – DINESH D’SOUZA’S FULL SPEECH AT CPAC 2012

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THE FED’S NEAR-ZERO INTEREST RATE AND ITS IMPACT

FEBRUARY 6, 2012 The Fed Votes No Confidence The prolonged—’emergency’—near-zero interest rate policy is harming the economy. By CHARLES SCHWAB Mr. Schwab is founder and chairman of the Charles Schwab Corporation We’re now in the 37th month of central government manipulation of the free-market system through the Federal Reserve’s near-zero interest rate policy. Is it

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THE FEDERAL RESERVE’S COVERT BAILOUT OF EUROPE

DECEMBER 28, 2011 When is a loan between central banks not a loan? When it is a dollars-for-euros currency swap. By GERALD P. O’DRISCOLL JR.Mr. O’Driscoll, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, was vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and later at Citigroup. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  First, the Fed has

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THE FANNIE AND FREDDIE HATE STORM

DECEMBER 28, 2011, 7:28 A.M. ET The Fannie and Freddie Hate Storm A dubious prosecution but it helps set the record straight. By HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  So where ultimately do Fannie and Freddie rank amid the confluence of ridiculous subsidies, private-sector opportunism and ungovernable global capital flows that contributed to

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