SEPTEMBER 20, 2010 Tax Fight:GOP Won’t Back Down By ERIC CANTOR As we enter the final stretch before the November midterm elections, all eyes have gravitated to the fight over the looming federal tax increases. President Obama and Speaker Nancy Pelosi want to keep the current rates on income, capital gains and dividends in place […]
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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 Cap Gains Taxation: Less Means More A new study suggests a zero cap gains rate could create millions of jobs at a fraction of the cost of the spending stimulus. By ALLEN SINAI Congress is deliberating on what to do about the “Bush tax cuts”—the reductions in income, capital gains and dividend
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SEPTEMBER 17, 2010 Why It’s Time for the Tea Party The populist movement is more a critique of the GOP than a wing of it. By PEGGY NOONAN This fact marks our political age: The pendulum is swinging faster and in shorter arcs than it ever has in our lifetimes. Few foresaw the earthquake of
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Hearing scheduled for September 23 of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection will focus on legislation that would regulate gold-selling companies. http://seekingalpha.com/article/225579-congressmen-weiner-and-waxman-set-gold-hearing
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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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SEPTEMBER 11, 2010 A Weakened Russia Looks to Europe By STEPHEN FIDLER The severe blow dealt to Russia by the West’s financial crisis is prompting a recalibration of Russia’s foreign policy. Among the ideas now surfacing in Moscow: a much closer relationship between Russia and the European Union. Mr. Putin attacked the West during a
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Common Sense Collapse In Internet Time Mallory Factor, 08.04.10, 12:00 PM ET During the dot-com bubble we often heard the phrase “competing in Internet time.” The idea is that business now moves at the speed of bits and bytes–competition speeds up, and victory belongs to the swiftest to adapt to changing business conditions. Just as
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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010 Time for Emergency Economic Reform How about a payroll tax holiday, funded by a federal spending, hiring and pay freeze? By MITCH DANIELS, Governor of Indiana Ronald Reagan enjoyed telling of the elderly Blitz victim rescued from her demolished London flat in World War II. A fireman found a bottle of brandy under
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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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