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 21, 2011 Barney Frank’s Fed Packing Plan A proposal to punish the hard-money regional bank presidents. Among Washington’s modern ironies is that liberals think a Federal Reserve that is increasingly a creature of the White House and Congress has too much independence. So along comes Barney Frank with a plan to make the central
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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011, 10:12 A.M. ET The Fed ‘Twist’ That Won’t Dance Bond-buying creates an obvious conflict of interest because the Fed’s portfolio loses value if it raises interest rates. By DAVID MALPASS EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The Fed will get attaboys from markets if it buys more bonds. The bond market loves a whale,
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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011 A BNP Paribas executive makes his concerns known. By NICOLAS LECAUSSIN EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: “Look at the French banks’ debt holdings versus those of U.S. banks,” he continues. “The total debt of the three big U.S. banks (Bank of America, JP Morgan and Citigroup) is $5.86 trillion, or 39% of GDP,
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This is the hate that is spewing from the Left. Sept. 11, 2011: A Day to Commit to Activism A Message from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka All of us will remember the horror and anguish we experienced 10 years ago. Whether we lost loved ones ourselves—family members, union brothers and sisters—or felt the shock of
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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011 An economic shock from abroad is the last thing that the U.S. economy now needs. By DESMOND LACHMAN EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:A European failure to contain its debt crisis would be a monumental electoral setback for Mr. Obama. This is not just because Mr. Obama’s governing and economic philosophies are closely associated
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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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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011 A jobs plan that shrinks from some of the biggest issues. Mitt Romney rolled out a major chunk of his economic agenda yesterday, and we’ll say this for it: His ideas are better than President Obama’s. Yet the 160 pages and 59 proposals also strike us as surprisingly timid and tactical considering
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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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