How could anyone take a principled stand against the $789 billion economic stimulus bill? Any opposition to this massive expansion of the federal government must be sheer political posturing. Or so said Newsweek magazine’s Jonathan Alter.
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February 11, 2009
Despite his tax problems, President Barack Obama’s newly minted Treasury secretary, Tim Geithner, was sold to Congress as the one who was going to save the fragile financial system.
However, in what was billed to be a big…
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February 11, 2009
As in the 1930s, green-eyed populists are once again staring resentfully at the pay and lifestyles of corporate executives and demanding change.
Democrats in Congress and the news media have long pushed for pay caps for the very rich.…
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February 11, 2009
President Barack Obama has proclaimed his administration will be more open than the previous administration. However, his counterparts in the House and the Senate aren’t following suit.
The Washington Post has reported that negotiations…
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February 11, 2009
The January 26th issue of “The Wall Street Journal” finally provided some really cheery news about the economy with the joyful headline: “Recession Batters Law Firms, Triggering Layoffs, Closings.”
I’ve long advocated a government…
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February 11, 2009
Whether it’s AIG, the automakers or many of the beleaguered colossal Wall Street institutions – there’s a mantra that is repeated throughout the media – they’re too big to fail.
Perhaps it’s too little too late – after bailouts for Fannie…
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February 10, 2009
Editor, The New York Times
229 West 43rd St.
New York, NY 10036
To the Editor:
Paul Krugman thinks that that the stimulus package is too small ("The Destructive Center," Feb. 9). He, like many others, portrays…
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February 10, 2009
If you want a preview of tactics that could be on the way in the name of curbing global warming, take a look across the pond at what they’re doing in Europe.
In Britain, Lord Puttnam, the founding chairman of the…
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February 10, 2009
WASHINGTON – Shares of Hope and Change, Inc. finally rose this past week on word the North American firm would spend more than $1 trillion to dig itself out of a prolonged economic downturn. Hope and Change (NYSE:HOPE), formerly the United…
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February 10, 2009
It’s a question we’ve all been waiting to hear answered – it just took a conservative talk radio host to ask it.
In an interview with Republican Sen. Arlen Specter, Pa., talk show host Laura Ingraham asked why he and Sens. Olympia Snowe…
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February 9, 2009
President Obama has resorted to draconian fear tactics in an attempt to shore up support for an enormous stimulus package, but many FOX commentators including Steve Forbes and Ben Stein criticized the bill and Obama’s scaremongering on Feb. 7.…
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February 9, 2009
Editor, The New York Times
229 West 43rd St.
New York, NY 10036
To the Editor:
Floyd Norris takes a shot at explaining "The Upside to Resisting Globalization" (Feb. 6). His shot, alas, is a blank.
While…
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February 6, 2009
Say goodbye to hope and change. It’s time to embrace the politics of doom and gloom.
MSNBC host Contessa Brewer, in an interview that seemed a lot like a lobbying campaign for the stimulus set for a vote in the U.S. Senate, quizzed Sen.…
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February 6, 2009
Negativity, particularly about the economy, flows from the news media these days in a near constant stream. So it was refreshing to find a few drops of good news on NBC and in Marie Claire magazine recently.
NBC “Nightly News” examined the…
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February 5, 2009
Editor, The Wall Street Journal
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
To the Editor:
Ed Glaeser wisely argues that it's a bad deal to copy ideas from the New Deal – including that of subsidizing mortgages ("The…
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February 5, 2009
It’s time to wave the white flag and surrender to “post-partisan” unity.
Yes, it’s time for conservatives to abandon core principles and just allow the Pelosi/Reid/Obama pork-a-palooza, also known as the stimulus or the…
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February 4, 2009
Editor, The Wall Street Journal
200 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281
To the Editor:
Dick Armey splendidly argues that we would all (save for the political class) be better off if the economics of F.A. Hayek…
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February 4, 2009
Imagine this – a former high-ranking and well-respected government official telling your children that they know something you don’t. Is this Cold War-era Soviet Union? Nope. It’s Maryland, and the official is former Vice President Al Gore.…
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February 4, 2009
Media's
Zandi Zeitgeist: Government Spending Trumps Tax Cuts
Journalists' leanings toward Keynesian stimulus tactics have
centered on economist that advised McCain presidential campaign…
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