SEPTEMBER 1, 2011 Post-’60s liberals, with the president as their standard bearer, seek to make a virtue of decline. By SHELBY STEELE If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a hundred times: President Obama is destroying the country. Some say this destructiveness is intended; most say it is inadvertent, an outgrowth of inexperience, ideological […]
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THE NEW YORK TIMES August 27, 2011 The Rescue That Missed Main Street By GRETCHEN MORGENSON FOR the last three years we have been told repeatedly by government officials that funneling hundreds of billions of dollars to large and teetering banks during the credit crisis was necessary to save the financial system, and beneficial to
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Morning Jay: The Store Is Closed Jay Cost August 24, 2011 6:00 AM In a recent interview with CBS, President Obama said: I’m the President of the United States and when people aren’t happy with what’s happening in Washington…I’m gonna be impacted just like Congress is. And you know
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AUGUST 26, 2011 How is increasing the price of imported oil and industrial commodities supposed to make U.S. industry more competitive? By ALAN REYNOLDS One year ago, on Aug. 27, 2010, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke explained the rationale for a second round of quantitative easing. “A first option for providing additional monetary accommodation is
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AUGUST 26, 2011 One program for recovery worked, and the other hasn’t. By STEPHEN MOORE If you really want to light the fuse of a liberal Democrat, compare Barack Obama’s economic performance after 30 months in office with that of Ronald Reagan. It’s not at all flattering for Mr. Obama. The two presidents have a
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FOX NEWS segment in 2008 – Chuck Schumer and Barney Frank block Fannie and Freddie reform
AUGUST 15, 2011 By severing the dollar’s convertibility to gold in 1971, the president ushered in a decade of inflation and economic stagnation. By LEWIS E. LEHRMAN On the afternoon of Friday, Aug. 13, 1971, high-ranking White House and Treasury Department officials gathered secretly in President Richard Nixon’s lodge at Camp David. Treasury Secretary John
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WALL STREET JOURNAL August 11, 2011 Emerson Electric CEO David Farr during an earnings call, Aug. 2: GDP in the U.S. grew in the first half less than 1%. . . . It’s not new news. We have to deal with it. We have a tradition in the company to deal with those things. Then
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AUGUST 9, 2011 Amid the market wreckage, signs of a political turn. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The downgrade uproar and even the market turmoil are signs that Americans aren’t about to accept economic decline gracefully. To adapt a famous phrase, a debt crisis is a terrible thing to waste During yesterday’s market meltdown, an old
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Newsmax Limbaugh on Market Collapse: Obama Engineering the Decline of America Monday, August 8, 2011 06:17 PM By: Jim Meyers Top-rated talk radio host Rush Limbaugh finds a “silver lining” in the downgrading of America’s credit rating: There no longer is any doubt that President Barack Obama can be roundly defeated in 2012. “Obamageddon —
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