November 26, 2008
The Democrats are doing a mighty good job of adding uncertainty to a weak economy. What the economy desperately needs now is certainty and predictability, to the extent that is possible. They've made matters worse by putting off a decision on bailing out automakers. Their ingenious plan is to let Ba...
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*Whistles* I said the other day how important the internet has been during this election; that it’s been the first truly 21st century election. Andrew Sullivan takes it a logical step further: “I don’t believe that Obama would have ever been able to become president in the era befo...
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The NY Times reports that France's cafe's have been struck a double blow:“The French are no longer eating and drinking like the French. They are eating and drinking like the Anglo-Saxons,” the British and the Americans. “They eat less and spend less time at it,” Mr. Picolet said. People grab...
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Feeling disgusted about corporate welfare, the ever expanding nanny-state, the global warming non-sense despite record cold weather? Well, enjoy some common sense and 10 politically incorrect thoughts as a breath of fresh air from renowned historian Victor Davis Hanson:6. Something has happened to ...
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With his big package. Or something. Keith Olbermann (he’s back!) reports on Barack’s press conference about the economy, and takes a look at his new economic team: And here was yesterday’s press conference in full: Timothy Geithner, btw - the Chinese and Japanese-speaking new Tr...
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Written by Jason Soon Obama’s core economic team has been revealed to consist of New York Federal Reserve Bank President Timothy Geithner as Treasury secretary, Larry Summers as White House economic director, Peter Orszag as head of the Congressional Budget Office and Christina Romer as head of t...
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November 20, 2008
Resplendent in their private jets, Detroit’s auto executives have been pleading to Congress for a piece of the bailout mania. Having seen Wall Street’s success in extracting billions of dollars from Washington to limit the economic damage from the collapse of the housing and financial ...
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Watch this video of U.S. President George W. Bush’s reception at the G20 talks on the global economic crisis. As you will see, Bush was ignored by every other leader, including Gordon Brown (Britain) and Angela Merkel (Germany). He walked with his head down, ignoring most, no one shook his han...
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