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THE MORTGAGE CRISIS – PLACING THE BLAME WHERE IT BELONGS

OCTOBER 27, 2011, 11:44 A.M. ET The Mortgage Crisis: Some Inside Views Emails show that risk managers at Freddie Mac warned about lower underwriting standards—in vain, and with lessons for today. By CHARLES W. CALOMIRIS Occupy Wall Street is denouncing banks and Wall Street for “selling toxic mortgages” while “screwing investors and homeowners.” And the

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PAUL RYAN ON THE PERRY FLAT TAX PLAN

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Paul Ryan on the Perry Plan: ‘I Can Tell You This: It Would Grow The Economy’ By Avik Roy Posted on October 26, 2011 3:11 PM In a conference call today sponsored by the Heritage Foundation, Paul Ryan answered some questions regarding the Perry plan for an optional flat tax. Ryan

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LOSING THE ECONOMIC BATTLE

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The global debt apocalypse approaches. David M. Smick October 31, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 07 On the issue of public debt, Washington is experiencing what psychologists call “learned helplessness.” The financial news is so relentlessly terrible that people have become numb to it and assume nothing can be done

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BONEHEADED ECONOMICS – FRED BARNES

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Magical thinking about jobs from liberal ­Democrats. Fred Barnes October 24, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 06 It’s not just the Occupy Wall Street rabble who are promoting unorthodox ideas (to put it kindly) about our economic plight and how to create jobs. They have friends in Washington. A few

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OBAMA, PUT THE SHOVEL DOWN

WASHINGTON POST Infrastructure projects to fix the economy? Don’t bank on it. By Chris Edwards, Published: October 21 In a recent television ad for her network, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow stands below the Hoover Dam and asks whether we are still a country that can “think this big” — Hoover Dam big. The commercial is built

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HARRY REID, THE BARD OF SEARCHLIGHT, NEVADA

Sherman Frederick         Sherman Frederick, former publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, writes a column for Stephens Media. Read his blog at www.lvrj.com/blogs/sherm. Has Harry Reid lost his mind? Posted: Oct. 23, 2011 | 2:03 a.m. Harry Reid is showing up the Occupy Wall Street protesters. He takes crazy talk to a whole new level. Last

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JON HUNTSMAN: ‘TOO BIG TO FAIL IS SIMPLY TOO BIG’

OCTOBER 19, 2011, 12:04 A.M. ET There is no evidence huge banks add sufficient value to offset the systemic risk they pose. By JON HUNTSMAN Is Dodd-Frank an appropriate regulatory response to the 2007 financial crisis? Tragically, no. That legislation ignores the government’s pervasive role in causing the crisis, assures future transfers from taxpayers to

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