October 14, 2010 Deficits and Depression By Victor Davis Hanson We will learn in November just how angry the public is about a lot of things, from higher taxes to massive unemployment. But the popular uproar pales in comparison to the sense of humiliation that we Americans are quite broke. In 2008, the public was […]
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Thomas Sowell Politics Versus Gold Tue, Sep, 28, 2010 One of the many slick tricks of the Obama administration was to insert a provision in the massive Obamacare legislation regulating people who sell gold. This had nothing to do with medical care but everything to do with sneaking in an extension of the government’s power
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SEPTEMBER 18, 2010 Elizabeth III Obama to Senate: Stick that in your advice and consent clause. Whatever else can be said about this White House, it isn’t afraid to poke a stick in the eye of its critics. How else to explain President Obama’s decision Friday to put Elizabeth Warren in charge of the new
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MALLORY FACTOR SPEAKING ON THE DANGERS POSED BY OUR NATIONAL DEBT AT THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN WOMEN’S FALL BOARD MEETING IN CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2010 Mallory Factor warns of dire consequences if national debt not reduced from Thomas Hanson on Vimeo.
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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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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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AUGUST 24, 2010 The Fed Can Create Money, Not Confidence Inflation—or stagflation—remains the more serious danger than deflation. By GEORGE MELLOAN A report by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York last week showed that consumers are having difficulty climbing out of the debt hole they dug for themselves before the credit bubble began to
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AUGUST 11, 2010 The High Costs of Very Low Interest Rates Money that should be invested to create jobs is instead funding government debt, while worried consumers sit on the sidelines. By JOHN C. MICHAELSON The prevailing view among economists, policy makers and Federal Reserve Board governors is that a zero or near-zero short-term interest
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