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November 12, 2008
Call it a textbook example of liberal policies pushing toward a socially engineered society.
The Nov. 11 “CBS Evening News” featured California schools that were forced to ban old-fashioned fundraising bake sales thanks to state nutrition…
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November 11, 2008
Cramer, in his Nov. 11 “Stop Trading” segment on CNBC’s “Street Signs,” told host Erin Burnett if General Motors (NYSE:GM) wasn’t bailed out, the U.S. economy would face a “meltdown.”
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November 11, 2008
Politicians and experts who think aggressive government intervention in the U.S. economy is a dangerous path to travel aren’t heard very often in the media. But one of those voices did get a platform on CNBC’s Nov. 11 “Squawk Box.”
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November 11, 2008
Just as the government was boosting its assistance to troubled insurance giant AIG, one of the networks ran another story criticizing an executive boondoggle that wasn’t an executive boondoggle.
On ABC’s “Good Morning America” Nov. 11,…
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November 11, 2008
It’s either socialism or capitalism – don’t try to have it both ways, according CNBC “Fast Money” trader Jeff Macke.
Macke, a regular on CNBC’s afternoon market wrap-up program, told viewers on…
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November 11, 2008
Editor, The Wonk Room
Dear Editor:
Regarding your most recent post boasting the faux-reasonable title "If It Happens, The Auto Industry Bailout Needs To Be Done Right" (Nov. 10): Piffle.
While it's true that some ways of bailing out this industry…
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November 10, 2008
Economists generally frown upon raising taxes in times of an economic downturn. Historians point to President Herbert Hoover’s Revenue Act of 1932 as an example – “the largest – and most poorly timed – peacetime tax increase in American history…
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November 10, 2008
Is a federal government rescue of General Motors do or die for the U.S. economy? With the automaker on the verge of collapse, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Harry Reid, D-Nev., say so, but Francesco Guerrera, U…
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November 10, 2008
Editor, The Wall Street Journal
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
To the Editor:
Regarding "Nationalizing Detroit" (Nov. 10): How ironic is it that the gaggle of politicians now ascendant in Washington croak especially loudly about their '…
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November 10, 2008
Editor, Washington Post
1150 15th St., NW
Washington, DC 20071
Dear Editor:
AIG Senior Vice President Nicholas Ashooh isn't afraid of special pleading. He writes: "It's hard to understand why anyone would suggest that it would have been better for…
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