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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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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Home About Me Contact Me December 4, 2010 INDUSTRIAL GIANT GE GETS FED MONEY? This week the Federal Reserve released documents showing who they assisted during the peak of the financial crisis in late 2008 early 2009. A surprise to many was to find the industrial giant GE on the list and that they borrowed
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NOVEMBER 17, 2010 Who better to host the debate over sound money in Congress than the Fed’s most persistent critic? By SETH LIPSKY One of the most exciting features of the new Congress is the prospect that the chairmanship of a House subcommittee that oversees the Federal Reserve will go to Ron Paul. Final assignments
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NOVEMBER 15, 2010 Fresh Attack on Fed Move GOP Economists, Lawmakers Call for Abandoning $600 Billion Bond Purchase By PETER WALLSTEN And SUDEEP REDDY WASHINGTON—The Federal Reserve’s latest attempt to boost the U.S. economy is coming under fire from Republican economists and politicians, threatening to yank the central bank deeper into partisan politics. A group
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NOVEMBER 13, 2010 The world won’t follow slow-growth, weak-dollar America. Has there ever been a major economic summit where a U.S. President and his Treasury Secretary were as thoroughly rebuffed as they were at this week’s G-20 meeting in Seoul? We can’t think of one. President Obama failed to achieve any of his main goals
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NOVEMBER 12, 2010, 4:09 P.M. ET For now: Extend the Bush tax cuts, repeal ObamaCare, support free trade. After 2012: Enact a flat tax, stabilize prices, balance the budget, give politicians incentive pay. By ARTHUR LAFFER Since its cyclical zenith in December 2007, U.S. economic production has been on its worst trajectory since the Great
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THE ROCHE RECORD by Frank Roche, Economist November 8, 2010 LIBERTARIANS, GOLD BUGS, EXPORT COUNTRIES CONDEM FED ACTIONS An article was recently forwarded to me by a friend, who like many of us, is concerned about the state of our economy today, and increasingly alarmed by the rhetoric coming from the media, Libertarians, gold standard advocates, and countries
AMERICAN THINKER November 09, 2010 Bernanke’s Cowardice Has Sealed Our Fate By Monty Pelerin The day after the election, the Federal Reserve launched QE2, the second round of Quantitative Easing. This public relations euphemism attempts to hide the fact that the Fed is “printing money” (the Fed actually does it electronically these days). “Cheating, debasing,
