SEPTEMBER 2, 2010 Summer of Economic Discontent The administration’s ‘summer of recovery’ has fizzled in almost every way imaginable. The growth rate is less than half what it was at this stage after the 1974-75 and 1981-82 recessions. By MICHAEL BOSKIN The Obama administration’s “summer of recovery” has morphed into a summer of economic discontent
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Standing up for North Carolina: Discussing Health Care Reform http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SjqpbqtNHw&feature=search Standing up for Veterans: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIHIVRIePLk&feature=search Martha Jenkins supporting Richard Burr: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EROvu5jYhfY&feature=search Richard Burr, down to earth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpL9e7Bf98c&feature=search
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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010 Americans are aware of the folly of Washington’s economic policies. By Elaine Chao, former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush ‘This is a chance to do something big, man!” So proclaimed Vice President Joe Biden in a recent Time magazine article about the Obama administration’s “all-out
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AUGUST 30, 2010 The Folly of Subsidizing Unemployment My calculations suggest the jobless rate could be as low as 6.8%, instead of 9.5%, if jobless benefits hadn’t been extended to 99 weeks. By ROBERT BARRO Congressman John Boehner recently suggested that President Obama replace his top economic advisers. I think he may have a point.
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AUGUST 30, 2010 Alinsky Wins at the SEC A new proxy access rule will help activists and unions, not shareholders. The Reaganites who came to Washington in 1981 used to say that “personnel is policy.” Flash forward to 2009 at the Securities and Exchange Commission, where Chairman Mary Schapiro handed senior roles to former union
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Return to the Article Jobs Debate Might Fall Flat in Florida By Erin McPike – August 31, 2010 Florida Senate GOP nominee Marco Rubio, speaking on FOX News Monday about his plans for spurring job growth, said, “The important thing we have to start with is by reminding everybody that politicians don’t create jobs.” Rubio
RealClearPolitics HorseRaceBlog By Jay Cost « Will Money Save the Democrats? | HorseRaceBlog Home Page August 31, 2010 Health Care Reform Has Endangered the Democratic Majority –>This Politico piece by Jim VandeHei, Alex Isenstadt, and Mike Allen got a lot of play last week: Top Democrats are growing markedly more pessimistic about holding the House,
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AUGUST 31, 2010 Social Security Bait and Switch ‘Harry, am I making this up?’ Yes, Mr. President, you are. Democrats are trying to keep control of Congress by scaring the wig off grandma with a phantom GOP plot against Social Security. That is not news. Social Security scare tactics have been regular campaign themes since
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AUGUST 31, 2010 TARP and the Continuing Problem of Toxic Assets It was a bold bet that the Treasury and Fed could engineer an economic recovery without allowing the repricing of U.S. housing stock. By ANDY KESSLER We should have eaten those toxic assets instead of sweeping them under the carpet. The Troubled Asset Relief
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NEW YORK TIMES July 29, 2010 G.M.’s Electric Lemon U.S. Taxpayers send $150 million to Volt’s Korean Battery Supplier By EDWARD NIEDERMEYER Portland, Ore. GENERAL MOTORS introduced America to the Chevrolet Volt at the 2007 Detroit Auto Show as a low-slung concept car that would someday be the future of motorized transportation. It would go
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