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 30, 2011 The Congressman from Fannie Mae retires. It is a newspaper truism that what is good for journalism is bad for the country, and vice versa. Let’s just say that regarding the pending retirement of Congressman Barney Frank, we’re delighted to make the professional sacrifice. Few House Members have made a bigger legislative
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NOVEMBER 26, 2011 ‘The New Tammany Hall’ The historian of the American city on what Wall Street and the ‘Occupy’ movement have in common, and how government unions came to dominate state and local politics. By MATTHEW KAMINSKI New York ‘What has the country so angry,” says Fred Siegel, “is the sense that crony capitalism
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The Disciplined Investor Friday, November 18, 2011 Sunday Fun: Occupy Wall Street – Who Parented These People? November 6, 2011 11:47 am I admit it – I just don’t get it. Seems as if the efforts going into this OWS should be directed at OWDC (Occupy Washington D.C.). We are trying to get someone from
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– Big Journalism – http://bigjournalism.com – The Politics Of Sycophancy: Arianna’s Attempt to Kill Congressional Insider Trading Scandal ‘Falls Flat’ Posted By Larry O’Connor On November 15, 2011 @ 4:23 pm In Featured Story, Huffington Post, journalism, media bias | EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Pelosi and her husband had a rare and exclusive (elite, one
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REPRESENTATIVE KELLY’S STATEMENT AT THE EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE COMMITTEE, June 22, 2011
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UNIONLEADER.COM Published Nov 8, 2011 In various cities across the country, mobs of mostly young, mostly incoherent, often noisy and sometimes violent demonstrators are making themselves a major nuisance. Meanwhile, many in the media are practically gushing over these “protesters,” and giving them the free publicity they crave for themselves and their cause — whatever
THOMAS SOWELL: DEMOCRACY VS. MOB RULE IN ‘OCCUPY WALL STREET’ PROTESTS Read More »
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 8, 2011 A cause to unite the tea party and the Occupy Wall Street crowd. The Occupy Wall Street protesters aren’t good at articulating what they want, but one of their demands is “end corporate welfare.” Well, welcome aboard. Some of us have been fighting crony capitalism for decades, and it’s good to have
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