June 14, 2012 Sherk and Zywicki: Obama’s United Auto Workers Bailout If the administration treated the UAW in the manner required by bankruptcy law, it could have saved U.S. taxpayers $26.5 billion. By JAMES SHERK AND TODD ZYWICKIMr. Sherk is a senior policy analyst in labor economics at the Heritage Foundation. Mr. Zywicki is a
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com The Left’s Misplaced Concern By Dennis Prager May 22, 2012 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: No rational person can deny that big governments have caused almost all the great evils of the last century, arguably the bloodiest in history. Who killed the 20 to 30 million Soviet citizens in the Gulag Archipelago
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Our Age of Anxiety Romney’s challenge is to address the deep uneasiness in America and point the way to a comeback. Yuval Levin Yuval Levin is a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard, Hertog fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and editor of National Affairs. May 28,
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Vulture Capitalism? Try Obama’s Version A profit-driven economy is preferable to one run by political favoritism. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Mr. Obama’s knock on free enterprise is that it is driven by “profit,” and that this experience makes Mr. Romney too heartless to be president. The alternative is an Obama capitalism
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Obamacare for the Financial Industry The disastrous Dodd-Frank Act. Peter J. WallisonPeter J. Wallison is Arthur F. Burns fellow in financial policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. April 9 – April 16, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 29 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The chairman of this body, [Financial Stability Oversight
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May 18, 2012 Vampire Capitalism? Please GST Steel would have failed much earlier without Bain. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL This week the Obama campaign debuted its attack on Bain Capital, the private-equity firm Mitt Romney founded. Its two-minute ad purports to tell the story of GS Technologies, a Kansas City-based Bain investment that went bankrupt
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May 10, 2012 Obama’s Public-Equity Record The auto bailout makes Bain Capital look like an amateur on job losses and outsourcing. By KARL ROVE EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: There are differences between Mr. Romney and Mr. Obama. Mr. Romney rescued companies with private money collected from investors including union pension funds, college endowments and private
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May 10, 2012 Arthur Herman: The FDR Lesson Obama Should Follow Roosevelt reluctantly unleashed industry to win World War II, thereby laying the groundwork for America’s economic recovery. By ARTHUR HERMANMr. Herman is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. His newest book, “Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II,”
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DECKER: Obama’s French auto bailout Government Motors buys a stake in sputtering Peugeot By Brett M. Decker– The Washington Times Wednesday, March 28, 2012 This April 21, 2009, file photo shows General Motors Co. world headquarters in Detroit. A confident General Motors has added 20 million shares of preferred stock to its initial public offering,
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March 14, 2012 Big Oil, Bigger Taxes The industry sends more money to Washington than to shareholders. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Exxon Mobil, the world’s largest oil and gas company, says that in the five years prior to 2010 it paid about $59 billion in total U.S. taxes, while it earned . . . $40.5
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