June 13, 2011 – carolinajournal.com Carolina Journal Exclusive Government Jobs Untouched by the Great Recession By Don Carrington RALEIGH — Public sector employment levels in North Carolina have been stable since the start of the recession in December 2007. It would take a loss of 63,000 government jobs to match the nearly 9 percent net loss
JUNE 1, 2011 How to vote for a law and then raise money by deploring its results. Another day, and another cheerleader for the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law is deploring its 2011 impact. This time it’s New York Senator Chuck Schumer, who has spearheaded a letter from 18 Empire State Members of Congress to
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MAY 25, 2011 The consumer financial czar doth protest too much. No one in Washington does moral indignation better than Elizabeth Warren, the de facto head of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. And yesterday she was in high dudgeon on Capitol Hill attempting to repel efforts to hold her new bureaucracy more accountable. We
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MAY 20, 2011 James Grant believes a resumption of dollar-gold convertibility could be possible. By SETH LIPSKY It’s been 25 years since I found myself sitting in the office of Karl Otto Poehl, the president of the West German Bundesbank. I was then a young editorial writer at The Wall Street Journal intent on asking
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MAY 20, 2011 As Socialists Risk Losing Key Areas, Economists Fear ‘Hidden’ Bills By JONATHAN HOUSE And SARA SCHAEFER MUñOZ ReutersDemonstrators fill up Madrid’s famous Puerta del Sol in a protest against authorities’ handling of the economic crisis on Thursday. MADRID—Weekend elections that threaten to drive Spain’s ruling Socialist party from power in several regions
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May 19, 2011 by Frank Roche OBAMA’S OFFERS THE MIDDLE EAST UTOPIA A Liberal Utopia: President Obama’s vision of North Africa and the Middle East. The President gave his highly anticipated “Middle East” speech today at the US State Department in Washington, DC. It described a world that can most easily be seen through rose
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THE ROCHE RECORD by Frank Roche May 16, 2011 IMF AND STRAUSS-KAHN ARE NOT INDISPENSIBLE As you may have heard, the leader of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was arrested Sunday night in New York City on rape and sexual abuse charges stemming from a sexual romp he attempted with a maid at the Sofitel in midtown Manhattan.
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May 11, 2011 By Desmond Lachman The European sovereign debt crisis is now entering a critical phase, which U.S. economic policymakers would be ignoring at their peril. For this crisis has the real potential for delivering the severest of body blows to an already enfeebled European banking system. And if there is one thing that
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THE ROCHE RECORD by Frank Roche HEADLINE THE EXTERNAL VALUE OF THE DOLLAR VS. DOMESTIC PURCHASING POWER Financial market economics can be very complex involving many correlations between differing financial products, economic data, and differing national interest rates levels and economic performances. Layer over that the complexities of the foreign exchange…READ MORE THE WEEK AHEAD
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