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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AUGUST 22, 2011 Before you ask for more tax money from me, raise the $2.2 trillion you already collect each year more fairly and spend it more wisely. By HARVEY GOLUBMr. Golub, a former chairman and CEO of American Express, currently serves on the executive committee of the American Enterprise Institute. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:
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WASHINGTON POST George F. Will Opinion Writer Chris Christie, America’s Caesar By George F. Will, Published: August 19 Trenton Near the statehouse office of New Jersey’s 55th governor sits a sort of shrine to the 34th. Fortunately, Chris Christie is unlike Woodrow Wilson. Christie, who resembles Falstaff in girth and Jack Dempsey in pugnacity, is a visceral politician who thrives
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WASHINGTON POST By George F. Will, Published: August 17 LONDON During the Second World War, a future prime minister, Harold Macmillan, said America is “the new Roman empire and we Britons, like the Greeks of old, must teach them how to make it go.” How goes the tutoring of Rome by Athens? We are in the
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blogs.the-american-interest.comhttp://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/08/18/european-crisis-deepens/ European Crisis Deepens | Via Meadia The bad news just keeps coming. Coming close on the recent revelation that economic growth is slowing faster than expected in France and Germany, British labor figures have disappointed forecasters and it seems that Greece is heading for yet another recession despite optimistic predictions to the contrary. A familiar
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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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AUGUST 13, 2011 He is still the same anti-American leftist he was before becoming our president. By NORMAN PODHORETZ It’s open season on President Obama. Which is to say that the usual suspects on the right (among whom I include myself) are increasingly being joined in attacking him by erstwhile worshipers on the left. Even
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