SEPTEMBER 26, 2011 Pivot Point: Investors Lose Faith in Stocks By TOM LAURICELLA European nations, flirting with recession, can’t agree on how to climb out from under their pile of debt. The U.S. is careening toward a budget fight that threatens to shut down the government. China’s mammoth economy may be downshifting. Getty ImagesEconomic fragility […]
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SEPTEMBER 8, 2011 The president constantly reminds us that he was dealt a difficult hand. But the evidence is overwhelming that he played it poorly. By MICHAEL J. BOSKIN When it comes to the economy, presidents, like quarterbacks, often get more credit or blame than they deserve. They inherit problems and policies that affect the
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REAL CLEAR POLITICS September 3, 2011 By Larry Kudlow No sooner had President Barack Obama shocked the political world with a gloomy economic forecast — projecting 9.1 percent unemployment for this year and a re-election-killing 9 percent for 2012 — than the dismal August jobs report arrived showing no gain in non-farm payrolls. That’s right,
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AUGUST 31, 2011 The Obama administration repeats mistakes of the past by intimidating banks into lending to minority borrowers at below-market rates in the name of combatting discrimination. By MARY KISSEL Talk about not learning from past mistakes: A government department is again intimidating banks into lending to minority borrowers at below-market rates, all in
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Decline and Fall The arc of the Obama presidency bends towards failure. Peter Wehner August 29, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 46 Now more than halfway through his third year in office—with the economy flat-lining, American prestige evaporating, and public anxiety spiking—Barack Obama is the most vulnerable incumbent president since
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COMMENTARYMAGAZINE.COM Answering Jonathan Alter’s Challenge Peter Wehner 08.26.2011 – “Tell me again why Barack Obama has been such a bad president?” Jonathan Alter writes in his column. Alter tells us he’s not talking here about Obama as a tactician and communicator, and he’s not interested in hearing ad hominem attacks or about people’s generalized “disappointment.”
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FOX NEWS segment in 2008 – Chuck Schumer and Barney Frank block Fannie and Freddie reform
AUGUST 21, 2011, 7:41 P.M. ET A week in the life of the Obama recovery. Financial markets are in turmoil, investors are fleeing to safe havens, and the chances of another recession are rising. This would seem to be a moment when government should be especially careful to do no harm, to talk and walk
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Beijing has chastised the U.S. for fiscal recklessness, but it may be headed for an economic collapse of its own. by Niall Ferguson | August 14, 2011 10:0 AM EDT Small wonder the Chinese news agency was on gloat mode during the week of Aug. 8. The U.S. stock market fell off a cliff, bounced
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washington post By Zachary A. Goldfarb, Updated: Monday, August 15, 10:25 PM President Obama has directed a small team of advisers to develop a proposal that would keep the government playing a major role in the nation’s mortgage market, extending a federal loan subsidy for most home buyers, according to people familiar with the matter. The decision
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