JANUARY 27, 2011 Congress’s inquiry commission is offering a simplistic narrative that could lead to the wrong policy reforms. By BILL THOMAS,KEITH HENNESSEY AND DOUGLAS HOLTZ-EAKIN Today, six members of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission—created by the last Congress to investigate the causes of the financial crisis—are releasing their final report. Although the three of […]
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JANUARY 19, 2011 Let’s scrap the Departments of Commerce and Housing and Urban Development, end farm subsidies, and end urban mass transit grants, for starters. By DICK ARMEY AND MATT KIBBE The primary economic challenge today is that our government spends too much money it doesn’t have, and it is involved in too many things
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Only Yesterday A president remembers what some have forgotten. Philip Terzian November 22, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 10 Decision Points by George W. Bush Crown, 512 pp., $35 The president left the White House with abysmal approval ratings, and a war which had begun well—enjoying widespread support and historic
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NOVEMBER 16, 2010 Some born again reformers were once the company’s defenders. A major task for the next Congress will be rewriting the laws governing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and House Republicans have now won a seat at that table. Which makes it all the more important that their seat not be occupied by
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Shocking C Span videos of Democrats fighting off Republican efforts to put more regulation on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in late 2004 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs&feature=related
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THE WEEKLY STANDARD First, Stop Obama’s Madness A two-step plan for the future majority party. BY Yuval Levin September 20, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 01 Democrats in Washington, confronting a mammoth tidal wave of angry voters as November approaches, are desperate to change the subject. They know there is little they can say about themselves
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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010 The Obama Economy How trillions in fiscal and monetary stimulus produced a 1.6% recovery. So two months before an election, and 19 months after the mother of all spending programs, President Obama said yesterday he’s rolling out one more plan to stimulate the economy. We’ll discuss the details when they’re released, but
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The day the democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009 it was actually January 3rd 2007 the day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate, the start of the 110th Congress. The Democratic Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd
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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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AUGUST 6, 2010 An Argentinaville Stimulus? Wall Street comes to life with rumors of a back-door stimulus. It’s August, so one expects the vapors to fill with humid and overripe rumors. But the ride given yesterday to rumors that the Obama Administration is planning an “August Stimulus Surprise” was remarkable even by the sodden standards
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