VIDEO – HERMAN CAIN AT THE VALUES VOTER SUMMIT
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NEWT’S NEW CONTRACT
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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STIMULUS HAS BEEN A WASHINGTON JOB KILLER
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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STUDENT LOANS – WASHINGTON’S QUIETEST DISASTER
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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BARNEY FRANK’S PLAN TO PUNISH THE SOUND MONEY FED REGIONAL PRESIDENTS
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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WHO’S TO BLAME FOR THE EUROPEAN DEBT CRISIS
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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BOND BUYING BY THE FEDS – THE ‘TWIST’
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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THE TROUBLE WITH FRENCH BANKS
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011 A BNP Paribas executive makes his concerns known. By NICOLAS LECAUSSIN EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: “Look at the French banks’ debt holdings versus those of U.S. banks,” he continues. “The total debt of the three big U.S. banks (Bank of America, JP Morgan and Citigroup) is $5.86 trillion, or 39% of GDP,
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THE EURO THREAT TO OBAMA
SEPTEMBER 9, 2011 An economic shock from abroad is the last thing that the U.S. economy now needs. By DESMOND LACHMAN EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:A European failure to contain its debt crisis would be a monumental electoral setback for Mr. Obama. This is not just because Mr. Obama’s governing and economic philosophies are closely associated
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OBAMA’S ECONOMIC POLICIES HAVE FAILED
REAL CLEAR POLITICS September 3, 2011 By Larry Kudlow No sooner had President Barack Obama shocked the political world with a gloomy economic forecast — projecting 9.1 percent unemployment for this year and a re-election-killing 9 percent for 2012 — than the dismal August jobs report arrived showing no gain in non-farm payrolls. That’s right,
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