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NEW YORK AND PENNSYLVANIA – A TALE OF TWO SHALE STATES
JULY 26, 2011 A Tale of Two Shale States Pennsylvania’s gain vs. New York’s missed opportunity. Politicians wringing their hands over how to create more jobs might study the shale boom along the New York and Pennsylvania border. It’s a case study in one state embracing economic opportunity, while the other has let environmental politics
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THE LATEST JOBS KILLER FROM THE EPA
JULY 26, 2011 The agency’s ozone rule will be the most expensive in history—and isn’t required by law. By JOHN ENGLER EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: On behalf of the Business Roundtable, Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris recently wrote to White House Chief of Staff William Daley, noting that the EPA’s new ozone rule threatens “to
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MICHELLE MALKIN – THE DODD-FRANK FINANCIAL REFORM MONSTROSITY
July 24, 2011 The Beltway Industry Full-Time Employment Act By Michelle Malkin 7/22/2011 Dodd-Frank, the 2,300-page financial “reform” monstrosity spearheaded by Capitol Hill corruptocrats, turned 1 this week. It made too-big banks bigger. It made too-risky incentives riskier. It made a lousy economy lousier. Billed as a “consumer protection” act, Dodd-Frank has succeeded phenomenally —
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BREAST CANCER – A SECOND AVASTIN OPINION
JULY 23, 2011 Oncologists vs. the FDA on the breast cancer drug. The humanitarians urging the Food and Drug Administration to withdraw Avastin for women with terminal breast cancer claim there is no other choice: The evidence shows Avastin doesn’t work, so too bad. But how to square that view with the highly respected medical
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HOW SPENDING CUTS–NOT HIGHER TAXES–SAVED CANADA
JULY 21, 2011 Liberals up there listened to voters, and their economy is now growing faster than ours. By FRED BARNES EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:As America struggles over spending and debt, Canadians watch with wonderment. A new book, “The Canadian Century: Moving Out of America’s Shadow,” points to a role reversal—a strong Canada and a
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THE DANGER OF AN UNACCOUNTABLE ‘CONSUMER-PROTECTION’ CZAR
JULY 21, 2011 The SEC and FDIC are led by boards. Why should one person have sweeping powers over the economy? By RICHARD SHELBY Mr. Shelby, a Republican senator from Alabama, is the Ranking Republican on the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. On July 18, President Obama nominated former Ohio Attorney General Richard
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THE END OF THE GROWTH CONSENSUS
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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POLITICIZING CONSUMER PROTECTION
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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THE STRESS EUROPE WON’T TEST
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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