JANUARY 4, 2012 America as Number Two Hong Kong again beat the NYSE in new stock offerings in 2011. One reason the U.S. economy isn’t creating enough jobs is that it’s not creating enough employers. After another dismal year in 2010 for American initial public offerings (IPOs), some had predicted a strong 2011. But now […]
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DECEMBER 28, 2011, 7:28 A.M. ET The Fannie and Freddie Hate Storm A dubious prosecution but it helps set the record straight. By HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: So where ultimately do Fannie and Freddie rank amid the confluence of ridiculous subsidies, private-sector opportunism and ungovernable global capital flows that contributed to
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DECEMBER 19, 2011 The Speaker’s defense is hurting him as much as his $1.6 million payday. Newt Gingrich’s opponents aren’t letting up in their criticism of his lucrative ties to the failed mortgage giant Freddie Mac after he resigned as House Speaker in the late 1990s. More damaging to his Presidential candidacy is that Mr.
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DECEMBER 24, 2011 On Taxes, ‘Modeling,’ and the Vision Thing The GOP front-runner says Iran is ‘evil,’ Newt Gingrich is wrong on judges, and he might consider a value-added tax. He also explains why his penchant for ‘data’ and analysis won’t limit his ability to lead as president. By JOSEPH RAGO AND PAUL A. GIGOT
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Occupational Therapy A movement custom-designed to hurt liberals. Noemie Emery December 19, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 14 “God, I love ’em,” wrote Eugene Robinson in the Washington Post not long after the glorious dawning of Occupy Wall Street, saying that the protests “arise at just the right moment and
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DECEMBER 23, 2011 What Fannie and Freddie Knew The SEC shows how the toxic twins turbocharged the housing bubble. Democrats have spent years arguing that private lenders created the housing boom and bust, and that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac merely came along for the ride. This was always a politically convenient fiction, and now
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DECEMBER 21, 2011 The Financial Crisis on Trial The SEC fingers the government-backed mortgage buyers, not Wall Street greed. By PETER J. WALLISON The Securities and Exchange Commission’s lawsuits against six top executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, announced last week, are a seminal event. For the first time in a government report, the
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DECEMBER 19, 2011 In freedom lies the risk of failure. But in statism lies the certainty of stagnation. By JEB BUSH Congressman Paul Ryan recently coined a smart phrase to describe the core concept of economic freedom: “The right to rise.” Think about it. We talk about the right to free speech, the right to
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DECEMBER 8, 2011 The president sounds more like a Corleone than a Roosevelt. By DANIEL HENNINGER Most press accounts of Barack Obama’s speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, Tuesday described it as delivered by the “president of the United States.” And indeed the person delivering it analogized himself to Presidents Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower and
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DECEMBER 1, 2011 MF Global and the new era of crony capitalist regulation. More than $1 billion of client money is still missing at failed brokerage MF Global, according to the bankruptcy trustee’s latest estimate. At Thursday’s hearing of the Senate Agriculture Committee, the company’s principal regulator will try to explain how his agency failed
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