US NEWS & WORLD REPORT December 1, 2011 by Rick Newman The bank bailouts in 2008 and 2009 were controversial because wealthy bankers seemed like the last people who needed help. Now, the Federal Reserve and other central banks are rescuing one group held in even lower regard than bankers: politicians. [See 11 dates investors need […]
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NOVEMBER 8, 2011 Like the ’90s Never Happened A former New Democrat known for his centrist economic policies, Bill Clinton now favors vast new government spending and higher taxes. By STEPHEN MOORE Bill Clinton ascended to the White House as a New Democrat, wisely repudiating what had been a quarter-century of big-government liberalism and embracing
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November 1, 2011 By John Ransom 10/31/2011 A financially-troubled Canadian alternative energy company with ties to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid paid a director the lion’s share of $758,828 (CAD) in reported consulting fees, according to an analysis of the filings made by the company. The fee was a part of a consulting agreement in order to
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES EDITORIAL: The solar swindle Subsidies are the only thing green about the Solyndra scandal By THE WASHINGTON TIMES Tuesday, September 27, 2011 FBI agents stand guard outside the headquarters of Solyndra, a solar firm in Fremont, Calif., on Sept. 8, 2011. The FBI executed search warrants at the headquarters of the firm,
WASHINGTON POST Infrastructure projects to fix the economy? Don’t bank on it. By Chris Edwards, Published: October 21 In a recent television ad for her network, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow stands below the Hoover Dam and asks whether we are still a country that can “think this big” — Hoover Dam big. The commercial is built
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Sherman Frederick Sherman Frederick, former publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, writes a column for Stephens Media. Read his blog at www.lvrj.com/blogs/sherm. Has Harry Reid lost his mind? Posted: Oct. 23, 2011 | 2:03 a.m. Harry Reid is showing up the Occupy Wall Street protesters. He takes crazy talk to a whole new level. Last
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DEMINT: Venture socialism Obama agenda is about shoveling cash to cronies THE WASHINGTON TIMES By Sen. Jim DeMint Tuesday, September 27, 2011 The demise of Solyndra, the bankrupt solar panel company showered with more than a half-billion dollars in stimulus loans, exposes the fatal flaw of President Obama’s jobs plans. Government officials rushed $535 million
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OCTOBER 15, 2011 Real-estate and newspaper mogul Mortimer Zuckerman voted for Obama but began seeing trouble as soon as the stimulus went into the pockets of municipal unions. By JAMES FREEMAN New York ‘It’s as if he doesn’t like people,” says real-estate mogul and New York Daily News owner Mortimer Zuckerman of the president of
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Contractors’ fees recorded By Jim McElhatton– The Washington Times Wednesday, September 21, 2011 In the fallout of the collapse of solar-panel maker Solyndra LLC — a company awarded more than a half-billion dollars in federal loans before it went bankrupt late last month — members of Congress are demanding to know how all that money
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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011 The Department of Energy keeps shoveling out taxpayer money. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The Energy Information Administration estimates that new natural gas-fired plants will create electricity at a cost of $63.10 per megawatt hour, compared to the Administration’s “green” favorites, offshore wind and solar thermal plants—like the one in Nevada funded yesterday—which
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