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A Simple Fix for Our Economic Mess … Really

September 13th, 2011

By Richard D. Bailey It’s very simple. The economic crisis will not end until the marketplace redresses the problem that caused it in the first place — housing. Fix the housing crisis and you fix the economy. Fix the economy and you fix the deficit. Fix the deficit and you fix … the economy. Fix […]

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Tags: banks, economy, mark-to-market, mortgages, recession, recovery, stimulus
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Obama’s Accomplishments

July 8th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin To my mind there are two different kinds of Leftists in the world. One type wants the same things that conservatives and libertarians do (peace, freedom, the equality of all peoples under the law, etc.); they just don’t realize that liberal policies are seldom if ever the correct way to go about it. […]

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Tags: Beinart, foreign policy, health care, Kagan, reform, Sotomayor, stimulus
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How Much Is Too Much?

January 15th, 2010

By Larry Ennis Somewhere between health care reform and pay raises for politicians, I lost all track of the non-stop Obama tax machine. I’m surrendering myself to the reality that my descendants will have to pay for taxes imposed during my lifetime. The thought of such a hateful legacy is best ignored lest I go […]

Articles written by Larry Ennis
Tags: bailout, banks, Haiti, health care, stimulus, taxes
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Kinky and Political Theater

November 4th, 2009

By Tom Carter The most delicious political news is that Kinky Friedman is running for governor of Texas again! He’ll be running in the Democratic primary, and he’s convinced that he can beat either incumbent Governor Rick Perry or Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, depending on which of them wins the Republican primary, which he calls […]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: elections, Kinky Friedman, New Jersey, stimulus, V, Virginia
Categories: Arts, Economics, News, Politics | Comments (5) | Home

Follow the Money

April 11th, 2009

If you were spending $787 billion, wouldn’t you want to know where it’s going? Seems the Obama Administration isn’t too worried about it, and neither is the majority in Congress. The thing is, the money Congress and the Administration are throwing at the economic crisis is our money. We’ve already had indications that they don’t have much of an […]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: economy, stimulus
Categories: Economics, News, Politics | Comments (3) | Home

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