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A worker stretches on a chair during a morning trading at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo Monday, June 17, 2013. Asian stocks edged up Monday amid hopes that the U.S. Federal Reserve will put off plans to wind down its stimulus program. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225, the regional heavyweight, jumped 2.2 percent
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Union and business negotiators have supposedly reached a deal on the major aspects of the guest worker visa program, and the Senate’s bipartisan “Gang of Eight” appears close to releasing a comprehensive immigration reform bill. Cato has long argued that a key component of politically feasible
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Coolidge’s ideals still resonate, as reflected by Carson’s much-loved recent speech. (Related: For Ed Driscoll’s recent interview with Amity Shlaes, the author of Coolidge, click here.)
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As March 1st looms closer and closer and the dreaded automatic government spending cuts (Sequestration) begin to kick in, the fear mongering, the deception and the out an out lies smothering the American people like swamp swill are beginning to reach a crescendo. Usurper Obama and his propaganda
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Why in the world are we all Keynesians again? The stimulus spending of the 2009 American Recovery Reinvestment Act has been an apparent failure. Yet many pundits, policymakers, and academics continue to encourage additional increases in government spending. A new Cato study from
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BERLIN (AP) — Official statistics show German gross domestic product shrank by a larger-than-expected 0.6 percent in the final quarter in 2012 as the European financial crisis took its toll on the continent’s largest economy.The Federal Statistical Office said Thursday said the 0.6 percent fourth quarter drop
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WASHINGTON — Before Ronald Reagan traveled the 16 blocks to the White House after his first inaugural address, the White House curator had, at the new president’s instruction, hung in the Cabinet room a portrait of Calvin Coolidge. The Great Communicator knew that “Silent Cal” could use words powerfully
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The Tea Party and the GOP establishment are at all-out war. The war began during the 2012 election campaign. It has broken out in earnest in the last week. Now no one can deny it. How it plays out, and who wins and loses in this war, might surprise everyone
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In the old days, economic crises were organic events that reflected popular greed, economic instability and tangible fear. Speculative bubbles burst, bank depositors panicked and stock markets (and stockbrokers) plunged. No more. We have grown too sophisticated for all that. Our economy has reached a degree of complexity
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Volleys of negotiating counter-offers are coming in faster now that Christmas break and the looming fiscal cliff are just around the corner. While there is much unsatisfactory with Speaker of the House John Boehner’s (R–OH) Sunday night proposal, let us
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The administration wants Congress’ power of the purse, and could even use a constitutional interpretation to get there.
From Conservative News Source- hotair.com
Follow the money. When conservatives insist that spending cuts — actual spending cuts, and not reductions in the rate of federal expansion — the common rebuttal is that reductions in federal outlays would touch off a massive recession. But would that actually be true?
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Over at Slate, Matt Yglesias complains about the Obama administration’s newfound willingness to use the debt ceiling as a bargaining chip in the fiscal cliff negotiations. The administration is now asking for a two year extension rather than an absolute end to all fights with Congress over
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Kudos to Karl Ushanka for shining some light on the cruelest tax — inflation. If Obama’s economic policy of profligate government spending and massive expansion of the money supply seems familiar, you may be a student of Russian history: Lenin triggered inflation to eliminate the Tsarist monetary
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Faced with a court-ordered deadline, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized more stringent rules for National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Pollution (PM2.5), more commonly known as soot. The new standard lowers the standard from 15 micrograms per cubic meter
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Free trade, for the win. Despite a recent DOE-commissioned report confirming that allowing for more exports of liquified natural gas would indeed be a boon for the economy, certain lawmakers and naysayers are still making hay over the ostensible possibilities for
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President of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi addresses the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, at the European Parliament building, in Brussels on Monday, Dec. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The head of the European Central Bank says EU leaders must move forward
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Not long ago, the U.S. was facing the prospect of spending billions to import pricey natural gas from overseas to heat our homes, fuel electrical generation and run our city buses. ; The industry was furiously building terminals to handle what was sure to be enormous ship traffic
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It has occurred to me that the best and only way we will be able to turn this country around and get it back on the right track is to let the Democrats do what they want. Let’s face it, it seems
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rose modestly Monday on Wall Street. Investors were encouraged by signs of progress in talks to avoid the “fiscal cliff” of tax increases and government spending cuts set to take effect in two weeks and a prediction
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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s finance minister has said her 83-year-old mother’s kidnapping was linked to the country’s subsidy payments for gasoline.Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said Monday that her mother told her the kidnappers repeatedly talked to her about
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The price of oil hovered below $87 a barrel Monday as uncertainty over a deal on the U.S. budget overshadowed expectations of economic stimulus in Japan and China.By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark oil for January delivery was down 7 cents to $86.66 a barrel in electronic
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PARIS (AP) — A new report says governments looking to boost growth should focus on further narrowing the “gender gap” that continues to hold women back in education, employment and entrepreneurship.Women continue to earn less than men, are less likely to make
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AMSTERDAM (AP) — Shares in Dutch telecommunications company Royal KPN NV are falling sharply Monday over fears the company has once again paid too much in a 4G mobile auction.The company said after the close of trading on Friday it had paid €1.35 billion ($1.8
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(John Hinderaker) Via InstaPundit, we learn that for the first time, the United States does not rank as one of the world’s ten most prosperous nations, as rated by London’s Legatum Institute. The authors of the report found that the U.S.’s slippage
From Conservative News Source- hotair.com
Boom. The hydraulic fracturing, a.k.a. fracking, modern-day gold rush is quickly doing work on our global energy outlook. The improved technology and increased use of the decades-old technique has unlocked hitherto untapped reserves of oil and natural gas, bettering various countries economic opportunities by expanding
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TOKYO (AP) — Many in Japan are hoping that the landslide victory of the opposition Liberal Democrats and trouncing of the Democratic Party in Sunday’s parliamentary election will help the country break out of a 20-year economic slump. Here is a summary of the possible economic implications of the
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ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Ghana’s government said Sunday it will abide by the U.N. Tribunal’s order for the immediate release of an Argentine navy training ship seized two months ago at the request of an American hedge fund.In
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FILE – This Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012 photo from files shows South African president Jacob Zuma, left, and deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe, right, during the opening of Parliament in Cape Town, South Africa. South Africa’s governing African National Congress political party will return Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012,
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LA VALL D’UIXO, Spain (AP) — When Felix Valls followed his bank manager’s advice and invested his entire savings in the bank’s stocks, he did it without thinking.It was a simple question of loyalty.After all, how could he doubt the local bank that opened
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I find it practically impossible to believe that the majority of this nation can’t see the incredibly dark future that is hanging over this country, the austere and strictly regulated lives we are passing on to our children and grandchildren for generations to come.When I write something like this
From Conservative News Source- rightwingnews.com
You can say that again. For the last couple of years, some of the state’s most influential business titans and elder statesmen have taken time off to grapple with the mess in Sacramento. Former Secretaries of State George Shultz and Condoleezza Rice,
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FILE – In this July 18, 2012, file photo, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack talks about the drought during a press briefing at the White House in Washington. The fear that federal crop insurance subsidies are becoming fertile ground for big spending cuts in negotiations over the
From Conservative News Source- wsj.com
Throughout 2012, the number of people who said the economy would “get worse” next year was fairly stable. But in the post-election survey, the number spiked. Here’s a look at why.
From Conservative News Source- rightwingnews.com
As unions again run amuck, this time in Michigan, the Old Media establishment has steadfastly refused to report on the union’s violence, not to mention the “violent rhetoric” coming from their advocates. But this is in stark contrast to the Summer of
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NEW YORK (AP) — Best Buy shares fell on Friday after the struggling electronics retailer said it extended the window for co-founder Richard Schulze to make a buyout bid until after the holiday season.Shares fell $2.24, or 15.8 percent, to $11.88 in midday trading Friday.That erased most
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Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti arrives for an EU summit in Brussels on Friday, Dec. 14, 2012. France and Germany have had more than their share of difference over the past few months, but this week at long last the two countries were able to find a compromise that
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This undated handout photo provided by Judge Royal T. Furgeson Jr. show Judge Furgeson of Texas. With the nation teetering on a fiscal cliff, Congress may be on the verge of being forced by federal judges to dedicate perhaps millions of dollars
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People walk by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. Asian stock markets rose Thursday with the help of Japan’s Nikkei 225, which was propelled higher by a weakening yen. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)BANGKOK (AP) — World stock markets swung higher Friday after a survey showed
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Thousands of new proposed regulations, delayed by the election, will be issued over the next few months.
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People walk by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. Asian stock markets rose Thursday with the help of Japan’s Nikkei 225, which was propelled higher by a weakening yen. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)BANGKOK (AP) — Asian stock markets stuttered Friday after a
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Cuba’s President Raul Castro points as he attends a session of the National Assembly in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. The session is one of the National Assembly’s twice-yearly gatherings. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco, Cubadebate)HAVANA (AP) — Cuba’s economy czar said
From Conservative News Source- powerlineblog.com
(John Hinderaker) Small business owners are more pessimistic than at almost any time in modern history following last month’s election, according to the National Federation of Independent Business: The most significant factor impacting the decline in optimism is the expectation that future business conditions will be worse than
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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012, where he accused President Barack Obama of not being serious about cutting government spending. Boehner is insisting that Obama wants far more in tax
From Conservative News Source- foxnews.com
As President Obama and congressional Republicans wrangle over the terms of a deal to avert the so-called fiscal cliff, the likelihood of small business owners making significant investments in their companies over the next 12 months has plummeted, a national survey finds.The
From Conservative News Source- hotair.com
Oof. While the priority (well, some people’s priority) at the moment is avoiding falling off the fiscal cliff because of the damage the sudden smack of across-the-board tax hikes and spending cuts would inflict upon the economy, and while Republicans have been
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Straight talk. Earlier this week, Sen. Marco Rubio called out the fundamental unseriousness of President Obama’s fiscal-cliff plan and accused him of merely trying to win a political trophy rather than solve any substantive problems. Sen. Jim DeMint echoed that message on
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In this Friday, Dec. 7, 2012, photo, a help wanted sign is posted on the front window of a clothing boutique in Los Angeles.The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell sharply for a fourth straight week, a sign that the job market may
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One of the big Memeorandum pulls is a report from Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, which has made Leftist supporters of (NMP) Obama’s policies ecstatic Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in October suggests that economic activity and employment
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Spain’s Economy Minister Luis de Guindos, left, speaks with Portugal’s Finance Minister Vitor Gaspar during a meeting of EU finance ministers in Brussels on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. European Union finance ministers on Wednesday sought to agree on the creation of a single