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COLLEGE LOAN GLUT TURNS SOUR

  Is it any wonder the “free college” promises of  Bernie Sanders has appealed to our youth?   For an explanation of who pays for “free college”, watch the Bill Whittle video .    Nancy http://www.wsj.com/articles/college-loan-glut-worries-policy-makers-1465153138 THE WALL STREET JOURNAL College Loan Glut Worries Policy Makers Massive investment in improving skills turns sour, echoes of housing crisis ENLARGE New

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THE GREEN WAR AGAINST THE WORKING CLASS

  http://dailysignal.com/2016/04/20/the-green-war-against-the-working-class/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT0dFMVpHSXpNRFpsTnpnNCIsInQiOiJsXC9Eb3JsSWJybEdiUWsyamV0dnp2UU5cL09Db1ZwOTQzUzV1S0ZPMko4UEFwc3I3YlBcLzBKbDNjUXgxeUpUbVpFOTZcL2R6dDVhQlwvXC9iUktrSE1DY1Z5ZzJ1WEtcL3VjTXpQNlNWOUlZcVZZbFk9In0= The Green War Against the Working Class Stephen Moore / @StephenMoore / April 20, 2016 COMMENTARY BY The latest evidence came last week when another coal giant in America, Peabody Energy Corp., declared bankruptcy. This is the same fate suffered by Arch Coal Inc., Alpha Natural Resources Inc., and other coal producers that have filed for Chapter

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FANNIE AND FREDDIE FOREVER

  THE WALL STREET JOURNAL FANNIE AND FREDDIE FOREVER Dec. 31, 2015  Washington is a place where bad ideas go to live forever. How else to explain the latest innovation from federal regulators to keep Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac dominating the market for mortgage finance? Prior to the financial crisis of 2008, these two

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5 MISTAKES LEADING TO THE FALL OF AMERICA

June 28, 2015 5 Mistakes That Will Lead To The Fall of America John Hawkins 6/27/2015 8:10:00 AM – John Hawkins Thousands of years after the Roman Empire fell, people are still speculating about how such a powerful empire became too feeble to defend itself. Did it become corrupt? Was its taxes too high? Was

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WELCOME TO ILLINOIS, THE DEADBEAT STATE

  THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WELCOME TO ILLINOIS, THE DEADBEAT STATE December 10, 2014   by Gerald Skoning   Mr. Skoning is a labor and employment lawyer in Chicago Like millions of other Americans, I have spent cautiously, paid bills on time and maintained a strict budget. That doesn’t make us heroes. But it does mean

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OUR FINANCIAL CRISIS AMNESIA

  THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Our Financial Crisis Amnesia Remember the S&L crisis? Nobody else does either. And we’ll soon forget about 2008 too. By Alex J. PollockMr. Pollock is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and was president and CEO of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago 1991-2004. July 10, 2014

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ALAN GREENSPAN’S NEW BOOK – ‘THE MAP AND THE TERRITORY’

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Book Review: ‘The Map and the Territory,’ by Alan Greenspan Alan Greenspan argues that Wall Street didn’t predict the 2008 crisis because it paid scant attention to the insights of behavioral economics. Burton G. Malkiel Oct. 22, 2013 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  Bubbles and crashes will always be characteristics of free-market

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THE CLINTON-ERA ROOTS OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS

  August 12, 2013 The Clinton-Era Roots of the Financial Crisis Affordable-housing goals established in the 1990s led to a massive increase in risky, subprime mortgages. By PHIL GRAMM AND MIKE SOLONMr. Gramm, a former Republican chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, is senior partner of US Policy Metrics and a visiting scholar at the

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