Category: Economics
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By Selwyn Duke It’s not surprising that Harvard man Barack Obama wouldn’t share late writer William F. Buckley’s sentiment that “I would rather be governed by 400 people out of the phone book than the whole faculty of Harvard.” In fact, although he won’t manage to fill the Congress with the staff of his alma…
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Selwyn Duke If you understand the relative superiority of the free market, none of our government's recent business bailouts will find favor with you. Yet, while Uncle Sam's involvement in the auto and banking sectors is bad enough, nothing is more bone-chilling than proposals to bailout media. The reason for this should be obvious. If…
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By Selwyn Duke You're going to be healthy — whether you like it or not. The Obama administration is pushing for a national healthcare bill this summer and Democrats in the Senate are responding, with a Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee measure that would make healthcare both a right and a responsibility. Writes the…
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By Marilyn Barnewall Why is high speed rail important to economic recovery? Why should you care about it? There is one primary reason and a large number of secondary ones.
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On June 3, what appeared to be United States securities worth $134.5 billion were confiscated by Italy’s financial police at the Swiss border. Two weeks later, the mystery still remains. Are they authentic or counterfeit? What’s the story behind the story? By Selwyn Duke It sounds like the beginning of a Tom Clancy novel. Two…
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By Bruce Walker Government ownership of business will cause – as history has shown so many times – gross mismanagement and inefficiency. We can expect that, of course, but those are recoverable calamities. What worries me more is what happens when CBS goes bankrupt? The network news audience is dropping like a rock? http://newsbusters.org/node/29019/hmtl. What…
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Audio — Chrysler Lender Attorney: "White House Directly Threatened My Client" http://youtube.com/v/_GPNvjec-DAThis is a story about how the Barack Obama administration, in typical Chicago style, strong-armed an investment bank that was opposing his Chrysler bankruptcy plan. Obama's thugs actually said that they would use the White House press corps to destroy the bank's reputation if…
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By Marilyn Barnewall People are worried about our government, our currency, our indebtedness. They are worried about losing their jobs and paying their bills. Most of all, they are worried about the direction in which they see America moving. It does not reflect their values or their dreams.
