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IRELAND’S FINANCIAL HEALTH QUESTIONED

NOVEMBER 15, 2010 Irish Resist EU’s Push to Accept a Rescue By MARCUS WALKER,BRIAN BLACKSTONE And NEIL SHAH Europe’s debt crisis entered a critical new phase as Ireland resisted pressure from the European Central Bank and national governments to seek a bailout amid growing concern that the currency bloc could unravel. Ireland fiercely denied that […]

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$600 BILLION BOND PURCHASE CRITICIZED BY GOP ECONOMISTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2010 Fresh Attack on Fed Move GOP Economists, Lawmakers Call for Abandoning $600 Billion Bond Purchase By PETER WALLSTEN And SUDEEP REDDY WASHINGTON—The Federal Reserve’s latest attempt to boost the U.S. economy is coming under fire from Republican economists and politicians, threatening to yank the central bank deeper into partisan politics. A group

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NEW DEAL OR RAW DEAL?

November 5, 2010 Book asks: New Deal or Raw Deal? By Thomas Sowell, Syndicated Columnist The Picayune Item PICAYUNE — Guess who said the following: “We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work.” Was it Sarah Palin? Rush Limbaugh? Karl Rove? Not even

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EMBARRASSMENT IN SEOUL

NOVEMBER 13, 2010 The world won’t follow slow-growth, weak-dollar America. Has there ever been a major economic summit where a U.S. President and his Treasury Secretary were as thoroughly rebuffed as they were at this week’s G-20 meeting in Seoul? We can’t think of one. President Obama failed to achieve any of his main goals

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THE ROCHE RECORD

THE ROCHE RECORD by Frank Roche, Economist November 8, 2010 LIBERTARIANS, GOLD BUGS, EXPORT COUNTRIES CONDEM FED ACTIONS An article was recently forwarded to me by a friend, who like many of us, is concerned about the state of our economy today, and increasingly alarmed by the rhetoric coming from the media, Libertarians, gold standard advocates, and countries

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BERNANKE’S FOLLY

AMERICAN  THINKER November 09, 2010 Bernanke’s Cowardice Has Sealed Our Fate By Monty Pelerin The day after the election, the Federal Reserve launched QE2, the second round of Quantitative Easing. This public relations euphemism attempts to hide the fact that the Fed is “printing money” (the Fed actually does it electronically these days). “Cheating, debasing,

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THE KEYS TO UNLOCK THE AMERICAN ECONOMY

NOVEMBER 3, 2010, 7:45 P.M. ET GOP: Unlock the American Economy A genuine pro-growth economic agenda requires more than spending restraint. By DANIEL HENNINGER If the new GOP Congress doesn’t do something fast to unlock the American economy, its most vulnerable members are going to be defeated in 2012. The consensus among economists is that

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IT’S THE MONEY, STUPID

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) It’s the Money, Stupid Papering over our economic problems. Jeffrey Bell and Sean Fieler October 18, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 05 Thomas Hoenig, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, is the only significant public official on record in opposition to the easy-money, zero-interest-rate monetary policy being

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FOREIGN CASH? DEMOCRATS ARE CUSTOMARY RECIPIENTS

TYRRELL: Foreign money? Democrats, not the GOP, are the customary recipients By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. – The Washington Times October 13, 2010 Outgoing White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel winks as President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 1, 2010, during an announcement that

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STILL BASHING BUSINESS: WHAT PLANET IS PRESIDENT FROM?

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com October 12, 2010 Obama the Alien By Lawrence  Kudlow To be so completely disconnected from political reality and the investor class, the president must be from another planet. Believe it or not, with jobs falling for four consecutive months and unemployment stubbornly high near 10 percent, President Obama is out on

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