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“MAD MAXINE” AND WALL STREET

Maxine, the fox guarding the hen house.   Stephen Moore gives us a  sweet bit of history regarding the  financial crisis.   Don’t you just love those Dems and their pious self righteousness !  Nancy https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/11/why-wall-street-must-get-ready-for-maxine-waters/ WASHINGTON TIMES Why Wall Street Must Get Ready for Maxine Waters By Stephen Moore • Stephen Moore, a columnist for The […]

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REPEALING DODD FRANK

  https://www.weeklystandard.com/the-editors/dodd-frank-repeal-highlights-obama-failure-should-go-farther THE WEEKLY STANDARD Regulatory Release May 24, 2018 The partial repeal of Dodd Frank could have gone farther, but it’s a good start. In 2010, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and President Obama signed it into law. The legislation, more than 2,000 pages long, imposed cumbersome regulations

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5 VIDEOS – BILL WHITTLE DEBATING HILLARY CLINTON

    BILL WHITTLE VIDEOS  –  DEBATING HILLARY Published on Oct 3, 2016   Part 1 In Part 1 of this 6 part series, Firewall host Bill Whittle responds to the ECONOMIC issues left untouched in the first presidential debate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSUHB6ljDmg   VIDEO Published on Oct 3, 2016   Part 2 In Part 2 of this 6 part

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HAVE YOU CHECKED YOUR RISK LEVEL LATELY?

  THE WALL STREET JOURNAL http://www.wsj.com/articles/have-you-checked-your-risk-level-lately-1472247330 Have You Checked Your Risk Level Lately? Federal obligations and guarantees have ballooned since 2009. Taxpayers are on the hook for trillions. By  GEORGE MELLOAN Mr. Melloan is a former deputy editor of the Journal editorial page. His book “When the New Deal Came to Town” will be published by

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THE CLINTONS AND THE REAL HOUSING CRASH

  Are the Clintons the Real Housing-Crash Villains? Let’s revisit this piece of financial history, before Hillary rewrites it. By Larry Kudlow & Stephen Moore– Larry Kudlow is a contributing editor of National Review. Stephen Moore is chief economist at the Heritage Foundation.— May 28, 2016 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  The seeds of the mortgage meltdown

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FANNIE AND FREDDIE FOREVER

  THE WALL STREET JOURNAL FANNIE AND FREDDIE FOREVER Dec. 31, 2015  Washington is a place where bad ideas go to live forever. How else to explain the latest innovation from federal regulators to keep Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac dominating the market for mortgage finance? Prior to the financial crisis of 2008, these two

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MORTGAGE MADNESS

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/mortgage-madness_952538.html Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) BOOK REVIEW – HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT:  What Really Caused the World’s Worst Financial Crisis and Why It Could Happen Again    by Peter J. Wallison Mortgage Madness Blame for the 2008 financial collapse is, and should be, widespread. Jay Cost June 1, 2015, Vol. 20, No. 36 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: 

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THE CASE FOR REPEALING DODD-FRANK

    Peter J. Wallison American Enterprise Institute The Case for Repealing 
Dodd-Frank PETER J. WALLISON holds the Arthur F. Burns Chair in Financial Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Previously he practiced banking, corporate, and financial law at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Washington, D.C., and in New York. He also served as White

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ALAN GREENSPAN’S NEW BOOK – ‘THE MAP AND THE TERRITORY’

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Book Review: ‘The Map and the Territory,’ by Alan Greenspan Alan Greenspan argues that Wall Street didn’t predict the 2008 crisis because it paid scant attention to the insights of behavioral economics. Burton G. Malkiel Oct. 22, 2013 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  Bubbles and crashes will always be characteristics of free-market

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ROMNEY FAILED TO EMPHASIZE THE ORIGINS OF THE MORTGAGE CRISIS AND RECESSION

  IBD Editorials Perspective   Copying Democrats’ Identity Politics A Loser For GOP By PAUL SPERRY  Posted 03/27/2013 05:14 PM ET Read More At Investor’s Business Daily: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-perspective/032713-649568-republican-makeover-looks-like-democrat-racial-politics.htm#ixzz2Oqs7j4N2 Follow us: @IBDinvestors on Twitter | InvestorsBusinessDaily on Facebook Republicans lost the election by failing to pin the Great Recession on Democratic housing policies mandating affirmative-action lending. They’ll lose

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