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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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THOMAS SOWELL – THE UNKNOWN UNKNOWNS THAT ARE KILLING OUR ECONOMY

July 12, 2011 Unknown Unknowns By Thomas Sowell When Donald Rumsfeld was Secretary of Defense, he coined some phrases about knowledge that apply far beyond military matters. Secretary Rumsfeld pointed out that there are some things that we know that we know. He called those “known knowns.” We may, for example, know how many aircraft

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CANADIAN ENERGY – JOBS IN THE PIPELINE

JULY 7, 2011 Jobs in the Pipeline The EPA tries to scuttle oil transport from Canada’s tar sands. With 9.1% unemployment and gasoline prices in the stratosphere, President Obama must sometimes wish that some big corporation would suddenly show up and offer a shovel-ready, multibillion-dollar project to create 100,000 jobs and reduce U.S. reliance on

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TWO GREAT VIDEOS – SPENDING CUTS IN PERSPECTIVE AND THE FREE MARKET

Thanks to a young Republican, Brady Nemeth, for sharing these two educational links. These are two great videos that just came out today. They’re both short and to the point (the first is just 1 minute, the second is roughly 5 minutes), and leave out any politics, which means that they are great for sharing

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