OCTOBER 17, 2011 Capital gains tax cuts, deregulation to allow easier investment in growth companies, and the protection of intellectual property created a boom. By AMITY SHLAES Sometimes two separate news events turn out to be related. That’s the case with the Wall Street protesters and the extraordinary mourning at the death of Steve Jobs.
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OCTOBER 17, 2011 U.S. Will Inspect Cuban Rig Deep-Water Drilling—60 Miles From Florida—Prompts Concern About Oil Spills By RUSSELL GOLD U.S. officials are trying to make sure the American coastline will be protected as Cuba begins drilling a deep water oil well later this year about 60 miles off the Florida Keys. Administration officials will
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OCTOBER 15, 2011 The Golden State continues to incubate cutting-edge companies in Silicon Valley, but then the successful firms expand elsewhere to avoid the state’s tax and other burdens. By STEVE MALANGA California has long been among America’s most extensive taxers and regulators of business. But it had assets that seemed to offset its economic
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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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OCTOBER 15, 2011 By PATRICK O’CONNOR Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry announced his energy and jobs plan at a U.S. steel plant in Pittsburgh. He pledged to create more than 1 million jobs by expanding energy production and lifting federal regulations on the energy sector. Texas Gov. Rick Perry sought to reinvigorate his presidential bid
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OCTOBER 14, 2011 The U.S. military is the principal guardian of our global economy’s avenues of commerce. We protect the skies, cyberspace and the world’s oceans. By BUCK MCKEON Mr. McKeon, a California Republican, is chairman of the House Armed Services Committee What principles should guide the congressional super committee as it prepares to cut
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OCTOBER 9, 2011, 8:27 P.M. ET The also-rans get free publicity and have no incentive to drop out. Meanwhile the media pits all candidates against each other, giving Obama a pass. By FRED BARNES Neither fund raising nor the building of grass-roots organizations in key primary states is driving the Republican presidential race. Endorsements haven’t
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OCTOBER 3, 2011, The political graveyards are full of politicians who thought that temporary, targeted economic policies would get them re-elected. By JOHN F. COGAN AND JOHN B. TAYLOR Mr. Cogan, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of public policy at Stanford University, served as deputy director of the Office of
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OCTOBER 4, 2011 Sarbox and Immigration Reform for Jobs The president is right. We can’t wait until 2012 for change. By BOB GREIFELD Mr. Greifeld is CEO of Nasdaq OMX. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: First, we need to consider revising the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley accounting-reform law—specifically Section 404, which requires costly external audits in addition to
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OCTOBER 1, 2011 Harold Hamm, discoverer of the Bakken fields of the northern Great Plains, on America’s oil future and why OPEC’s days are numbered. By STEPHEN MOORE EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Mr. Hamm believes that if Mr. Obama truly wants more job creation, he should study North Dakota, the state with the lowest
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