DECEMBER 28, 2011, 7:28 A.M. ET The Fannie and Freddie Hate Storm A dubious prosecution but it helps set the record straight. By HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: So where ultimately do Fannie and Freddie rank amid the confluence of ridiculous subsidies, private-sector opportunism and ungovernable global capital flows that contributed to […]
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DECEMBER 16, 2011 Obama billed last year’s cut as a one-year holiday to boost the economy. Now preserving it is about fairness. By ARI FLEISCHER Mr. Fleischer, a former press secretary for President George W. Bush, is president of Ari Fleischer Communications. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Clearly, Mr. Obama can’t be trusted with the trust
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DECEMBER 16, 2011 And the Crisis Winner Is? Government From Greece to Washington to New York state, there’s no effective mechanism to control spending. By DAVID MALPASS Mr. Malpass, a deputy assistant Treasury secretary in the Reagan administration, is president of Encima Global LLC EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Governments on both sides of the Atlantic
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DECEMBER 23, 2011 What Fannie and Freddie Knew The SEC shows how the toxic twins turbocharged the housing bubble. Democrats have spent years arguing that private lenders created the housing boom and bust, and that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac merely came along for the ride. This was always a politically convenient fiction, and now
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) A GOP opportunity to reverse TR’s mistake. Joshua D. Hawley Joshua D. Hawley, a law professor at the University of Missouri, is the author of Theodore Roosevelt: Preacher of Righteousness. December 19, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 14 Osawatomie, Kansas, is where Theodore Roosevelt famously announced his embrace of progressive
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DECEMBER 21, 2011 The Financial Crisis on Trial The SEC fingers the government-backed mortgage buyers, not Wall Street greed. By PETER J. WALLISON The Securities and Exchange Commission’s lawsuits against six top executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, announced last week, are a seminal event. For the first time in a government report, the
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) A Nightmare of a Dream Team Obama’s intellectuals. Andrew Ferguson December 19, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 14 Is it possible that the people who run the Obama administration aren’t as smart as we’ve been led to believe? Stay with me here, seriously. I’m thinking now of the administration’s much-publicized
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DECEMBER 19, 2011 In freedom lies the risk of failure. But in statism lies the certainty of stagnation. By JEB BUSH Congressman Paul Ryan recently coined a smart phrase to describe the core concept of economic freedom: “The right to rise.” Think about it. We talk about the right to free speech, the right to
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DECEMBER 14, 2011 He fixes problems; we’ve got ’em. By HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR. Week 3,334 of Mitt Romney’s quest for the presidency hasn’t been a good one. Newt Gingrich has seized the lead in the polls. The voluble front-runner has even lined up with Ted Kennedy, Paul Krugman, Obama’s campaign brain trust and the
