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THE FOOD POLICE – TIME TO STOCKPILE LUCKY CHARMS?

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Time to Stockpile Lucky Charms? The Obama administration targets food marketed to children. Kate Havard August 8, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 44 The Obama administration is after your Lucky Charms, or at least your children’s. The public comment period closed on July 14 for a set of “voluntary” guidelines […]

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HOW CALVIN COOLIDGE BEAT A RECESSION

AUGUST 4, 2011 The late president inherited a bad economy, and he cut taxes and slashed spending to spur growth. By CHARLES C. JOHNSON Eighty-eight years ago this week, Calvin Coolidge took office upon the sudden death of President Warren Harding. Like the current administration, the Harding-Coolidge administration faced a tough recession from 1919-1921. But

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GLOBAL SELLOFF – AUGUST 4, 2011

AUGUST 5, 2011 Stocks Nose-Dive Amid Global Fears Weak Outlook, Government Debt Worries Drive Dow’s Biggest Point Drop Since ’08 By TOM LAURICELLA Stocks spiraled downward Thursday as investors buckled under the strain of the global economic slowdown and the failure of policy makers to stabilize financial markets. The selling began in Europe and continued

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THE MERITS OF “BIG OIL”

– Big Government – http://biggovernment.com – Putting ‘Big Oil’ to Rights Posted By Jason Bradley On August 2, 2011 @ 9:45 am In Economics, Politics, Regulation, energy | 25 Comments “Big Oil” has taken a public relations pounding. After all, the industry is thoroughly protected and its profits guaranteed out of necessity of the market.

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BOOK REVIEW – RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Guilty Men The political origins of the meltdown. Christopher Caldwell July 25, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 42 Reckless Endangerment How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon by Gretchen Morgenson & Joshua Rosner Times Books, 352 pp., $30 To have served as the intellectual architect of the

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MICHELLE MALKIN – THE DODD-FRANK FINANCIAL REFORM MONSTROSITY

July 24, 2011 The Beltway Industry Full-Time Employment Act By Michelle Malkin 7/22/2011 Dodd-Frank, the 2,300-page financial “reform” monstrosity spearheaded by Capitol Hill corruptocrats, turned 1 this week. It made too-big banks bigger. It made too-risky incentives riskier. It made a lousy economy lousier. Billed as a “consumer protection” act, Dodd-Frank has succeeded phenomenally —

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THE END OF THE GROWTH CONSENSUS

JULY 21, 2011 America added 44 million jobs in the 1980s and ’90s, when both parties showed they had learned from past mistakes. The lessons have been forgotten. By JOHN B. TAYLOR Mr. Taylor, a professor of economics at Stanford and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, is the author of “Getting Off Track:

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WILL WASHINGTON FIND THE CURE FOR CANCER?

JULY 13, 2011 Government boards and drug price controls threaten to throw sand in the gears of medical progress. By KENNETH C. FRAZIER Mr. Frazier is president and CEO of Merck & Co. Americans generally agree that our economic future depends on nurturing new ideas. “The first step in winning the future,” as President Obama

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