OCTOBER 20, 2011, 7:18 A.M. ET Occupy Wall Street in Zuccotti Park recalls the uncivilized New York of the 1980s. By DANIEL HENNINGER There is a must-see YouTube of an Occupy Wall Street event in Atlanta, where a facilitator with a bullhorn leads “protesters” through a weird “consensus” vote to bar civil-rights icon Rep. John […]
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OCTOBER 19, 2011, 12:04 A.M. ET There is no evidence huge banks add sufficient value to offset the systemic risk they pose. By JON HUNTSMAN Is Dodd-Frank an appropriate regulatory response to the 2007 financial crisis? Tragically, no. That legislation ignores the government’s pervasive role in causing the crisis, assures future transfers from taxpayers to
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OCTOBER 18, 2011 In interviews, protesters show that they are leftists out of step with most American voters. Yet Democrats are embracing them anyway. By DOUGLAS SCHOEN President Obama and the Democratic leadership are making a critical error in embracing the Occupy Wall Street movement—and it may cost them the 2012 election. Last week, senior
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The American Spectator By Peter Ferrara on 10.5.11 As previewed at the last debate, he’s delivered a product “far bolder, far deeper, far more profound” than 1994’s Contract, not to mention 1980’s. Last week, Newt Gingrich released his 21st Century Contract with America, composed of 10 specific legislative proposals he would enact if elected President. In
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OCTOBER 3, 2011, The political graveyards are full of politicians who thought that temporary, targeted economic policies would get them re-elected. By JOHN F. COGAN AND JOHN B. TAYLOR Mr. Cogan, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of public policy at Stanford University, served as deputy director of the Office of
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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011 Washington’s Quietest Disaster Student loan defaults are growing, and the worst is still to come. When critics warned about rising defaults on government-backed student loans two years ago, the question was how quickly taxpayers would feel the pain. The U.S. Department of Education provided part of the answer this month when it
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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011 Barney Frank’s Fed Packing Plan A proposal to punish the hard-money regional bank presidents. Among Washington’s modern ironies is that liberals think a Federal Reserve that is increasingly a creature of the White House and Congress has too much independence. So along comes Barney Frank with a plan to make the central
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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011, 7:05 P.M. ET Notable Quotable Charles Kadlec on who’s to blame for the European debt crisis. Columnist Charles Kadlec writing Sept. 19 at Forbes.com: There is no one to blame for Europe’s debt crisis other than its political class. They are the ones who borrowed extravagantly with the pretense that good intentions
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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011, 10:12 A.M. ET The Fed ‘Twist’ That Won’t Dance Bond-buying creates an obvious conflict of interest because the Fed’s portfolio loses value if it raises interest rates. By DAVID MALPASS EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The Fed will get attaboys from markets if it buys more bonds. The bond market loves a whale,
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