OCTOBER 17, 2011 Argentina’s Warning to America Its quest for social justice has made the economy dysfunctional. Kirchner’s re-election will cause more capital to flee. By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: It abandoned free markets, ostensibly in the interest of social justice. The predictable result has been greater injustice, more poverty, and increasing […]
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OCTOBER 15, 2011 The Golden State continues to incubate cutting-edge companies in Silicon Valley, but then the successful firms expand elsewhere to avoid the state’s tax and other burdens. By STEVE MALANGA California has long been among America’s most extensive taxers and regulators of business. But it had assets that seemed to offset its economic
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OCTOBER 15, 2011 Real-estate and newspaper mogul Mortimer Zuckerman voted for Obama but began seeing trouble as soon as the stimulus went into the pockets of municipal unions. By JAMES FREEMAN New York ‘It’s as if he doesn’t like people,” says real-estate mogul and New York Daily News owner Mortimer Zuckerman of the president of
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Thanks to Windy for creating these very insightful images of the protest rally in Chapel Hill
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OCTOBER 14, 2011, 9:17 A.M. ET Republicans have their own green baggage. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL On Friday Rick Perry delivers his first major policy address, unveiling an aggressive energy and jobs plan. It will no doubt be good. It will no doubt address serious problems. It will no doubt be ignored. That’s because, unfortunately
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Contractors’ fees recorded By Jim McElhatton– The Washington Times Wednesday, September 21, 2011 In the fallout of the collapse of solar-panel maker Solyndra LLC — a company awarded more than a half-billion dollars in federal loans before it went bankrupt late last month — members of Congress are demanding to know how all that money
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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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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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OCTOBER 4, 2011 Sarbox and Immigration Reform for Jobs The president is right. We can’t wait until 2012 for change. By BOB GREIFELD Mr. Greifeld is CEO of Nasdaq OMX. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: First, we need to consider revising the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley accounting-reform law—specifically Section 404, which requires costly external audits in addition to
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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011, 7:14 P.M. ET North American oil production can double by 2035. By LUCIAN PUGLIARESI In response to a 2009 request from Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, the National Petroleum Council (NPC) reported earlier this month that oil production in North America could double by 2035—to 20 million barrels per day. Where can
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