JULY 21, 2011 America added 44 million jobs in the 1980s and ’90s, when both parties showed they had learned from past mistakes. The lessons have been forgotten. By JOHN B. TAYLOR Mr. Taylor, a professor of economics at Stanford and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, is the author of “Getting Off Track: […]
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JULY 20, 2011 Richard Cordray is a junior achievement Elizabeth Warren. In the small favors department, President Obama did not nominate banking scourge Elizabeth Warren to run the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Instead on Monday he nominated one of her protégés, former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray, whose career sounds like Mrs. Warren without
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JULY 18, 2011 Regulators don’t want to reveal how vulnerable banks are to a sovereign default. Almost every bank in Europe passed the latest round of stress tests, according to results released Friday night by the European Banking Authority. A lot of good that news did. Stock prices came under pressure around the world on
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FACE THE NATION INTERVIEW – July 2011
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES NATIONAL WEEKLY EDITION July 4, 2011 LETTER TO THE EDITOR by Marvin L. Hoovis, Centerville, Massachusetts THEY’VE COMPLETELY CHANGED THE COUNTRY IN THE PAST 40 YEARS The far-left liberal progressives must be awed and encouraged by their success in achieving many of their desired agenda changes over recent decades. They have support
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JULY 16, 2011 The HHS rule for state health markets will mean fewer choices. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: HHS, unsurprisingly, envisions the exchanges as 50 (or more) new regulatory agencies designed to let politics run health markets, while letting Washington give orders to the states. The word “require” appears 811 times in the 244-page rule
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JULY 15, 2011 Cellulosic Ethanol and Unicorns The EPA punishes oil refiners for not buying a product no one makes. Today’s pop quiz: What happens if the government mandates the consumption of a product that doesn’t exist? Naturally, the Environmental Protection Agency has decided to punish the gasoline refiners because they can’t buy a type
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The following comments were sent to us from one of our members, Bonnie Clarke Sagan, who lives in Bakersville, North Carolina which is in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Bonnie is very concerned about the White House’s Executive Order for a Rural Council that was signed last month in June 2011. To refresh our memories, I have included
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JULY 13, 2011, 7:28 P.M. ET What if the weak recovery is all the recovery we are going to get? By DANIEL HENNINGER Barack Obama, John Boehner and Mitch McConnell have been performing an intricate scorpion dance over spending, taxes and the debt ceiling, premised on the belief that this is the deal that would
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, Jul. 13, 2011, By MICHAEL GOODWIN July 13, 2011 When President Obama started talking at his news conference Monday, I listened intently for 15 minutes or so. Then I got fidgety as his half-truths about the debt grew into full-blown whoppers. As he droned on, I did something I never did before during an
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