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DID BERNANKE AND ETHANOL SINK EGYPT?

Published on Washington Examiner (http://washingtonexaminer.com) By Lawrence Kudlow Feb 2 2011 Did Bernanke and ethanol sink Egypt? Decades of autocratic government and a lack of free elections are, of course, the main drivers of the political upheaval in Egypt. But did the sinking dollar and skyrocketing food prices trigger the massive unrest now occurring in

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WORLD GONE MAD: WHERE’S UNCLE SAM JUST WHEN HE’S NEEDED THE MOST?

WASHINGTON TIMES Sol Sanders Archive Tuesday, February 1, 2011     INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING World gone mad: Where’s Uncle Sam just when he’s needed the most? Picture a barred door. On one side is Uncle Sam holding it with bracing shoulder. On the other side are smaller figures pushing, but not too hard, and looking back over

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PAUL RYAN’S CHARGE UP ENTITLEMENT HILL

FEBRUARY 19, 2011 The GOP’s fiscal leader explains why House Republicans will vote to reform Medicare and why the public is ready to listen. By PAUL A. GIGOT Washington Paul Ryan doesn’t look like the menacing sort. He’s amiable in a familiar Midwestern way, his disposition varies between cheerfully earnest and wry, and he uses

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BUBBLES BUBBLES EVERYWHERE – VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

February 4, 2011 Bubbles, Bubbles Everywhere By Victor Davis Hanson The 2008 financial crash originated with a housing bubble. Not long ago, the cheap money policies of the Federal Reserve, the infusion of trillions of dollars in new foreign investment, and the misguided policies of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae all conspired to extend to

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WHAT CAUSED THE FINANCIAL CRISIS?

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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A WORLD IN CRISIS

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) A World in Crisis What the thirties tell us about today. Matthew Continetti January 3 – January 10, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 16 On December 13, 1931, there was a traffic accident in New York City. A man exited a cab on the Upper East Side and was crossing

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ON THE LIGHTER SIDE – DAVE BARRY’S 2010 YEAR IN REVIEW

Posted on Sat, Jan. 01, 2011 Dave Barry’s 2010 Year in Review By Dave Barry Jack Ohman / MCT Let’s put things into perspective: 2010 was not the worst year ever. There have been MUCH worse years. For example, toward the end of the Cretaceous Period, the Earth was struck by an asteroid that wiped

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THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE ABOUT THE NATIONAL DEBT

By James A. Bacon – The Washington Times    December 8, 2010 BLOOMBERG Erskine Bowles (right) and Alan Simpson, co-chairmen of the president’s deficit commission, challenged the panel’s members to put aside partisan differences and agree to its tax and budget recommendations. America’s budget debate suffers from a failure of imagination. Deficit hawks warn that the

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