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- Job Creation: A Massive Stimulus Fraud - November 18, 2009
- The Economy: We knew something was funny when the White House claimed that 640,000 to 1 million jobs had been created from this year's stimulus. What we didn't know was...
- A Nightmare On Wall Street - November 9, 2009
- Regulation: Washington is quietly preparing a hostile takeover of Wall Street with a new bill that would put regulators in control of managing asset prices. While all...
- Stimulating Failure - November 7, 2009
- The Job Report: Another month, another drop in payrolls. Will it ever occur to our leaders in Washington that what they're doing isn't working - and may actually be...
- Gore Asks Us to Commit Economic Suicide - November 4, 2009
- Junk Science: The oracle of climate disaster has a new book out on global warming that should be on the fiction list. He asks us to commit economic suicide while he...
- 3.5 Percent GDP Boost Is Wasteful Growth - October 30, 2009
- Economy: As we said as far back as February, it was likely the U.S. economy would grow by the third quarter of this year. Well, it did - and the 3.5% rebound was better...
- Nanny State, Squared - October 23, 2009
- Big Government: Hardly a day passes without the unveiling of some new federal intrusion into our lives. At some point Americans must say "enough's enough," or sit...
- The Real Cost of Global Warming Fixes - October 20, 2009
- Global Warming: A co-sponsor of cap-and-trade legislation has tried to convince the public that the regime would cost families only "about a postage stamp a day." The...
- Our New Paymaster - October 17, 2009
- Executive Pay: Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis is working for peanuts this year. No, less than peanuts - he's working for nuttin'. Why? The government says so, that's why....
- $250 Senior Payments Are Hokey COLA - October 16, 2009
- Social Security: The White House wants to give a special $250 payment to all 57 million recipients of retirement, disability and veteran benefits. If it does, it will...
- Three Decades of Global Cooling - October 13, 2009
- Climate Change: As a Colorado Rockies playoff game is snowed out, scientists report that Arctic sea ice is thickening and Antarctic snow melt is the lowest in three...
- A VAT Is What's the Matter - October 7, 2009
- Fiscal Policy: Sometimes the worst ideas are the most tempting. So it is with the value-added tax, or VAT - a potential money gusher for strapped governments but a...
- The War On Trade - October 2, 2009
- Commerce: Last month's tariffs on Chinese tires were explained away as just upholding U.S. law, not the first shot in a trade war. So why are special interests now...
- A California 'Black Gold' Rush - September 29, 2009
- Energy: An amazing number of oil finds have been made this year, including the biggest in California in 35 years. If the world is running out of oil, why do we keep...
- Decades of Global Cooling Ahead? - September 23, 2009
- Global Warming: President Obama warns of planetary doom at the U.N. if we fail to pass cap-and-trade legislation. Meanwhile, a former warm-monger predicts decades of...
- America's Tired Protectionism - September 15, 2009
- Trade: President Obama has fired the opening salvo in a trade war with China by slapping 35% tariffs on its tires. But besides giving China a kick, this protectionism...
- With Warming, Don't Ignore the Sun - September 9, 2009
- Climate Change: A team of international scientists has finally figured out why sunspots have a dramatic effect on the weather. It shows the folly of fearing the SUV...
- Other People's Money - September 8, 2009
- Economy: The jobless rate has hit a 26-year high. More than 200,000 jobs were lost last month. Yet the White House continues to claim its stimulus legislation is...
- A Tax Too Far - September 2, 2009
- Taxes: With so many bad ideas rolling around Washington these days, what's one more? Democrats and their union allies think slapping a tax on investment trades is a good...
- The $26 Billion Chevron Shakedown - September 1, 2009
- The Law: If there's any doubt Ecuador's $26 billion lawsuit against Chevron is nothing but a scam to shake down Big Oil, check out a new video of Ecuadorean operatives...
- The Cost Of Greed - August 20, 2009
- Unions And Politics: Big Labor finally has a friend in the White House and allies in control of Congress. But it still doesn't have the public on its side. If anything,...
- Exposing Insurers to Real Competition - August 18, 2009
- Health Insurance: Driven by focus groups, the administration and Congress rail against insurance companies to get ObamaCare passed. So why have they been protecting the...
- Hands Off Microsoft-Yahoo, Please - July 31, 2009
- Antitrust Law: Congress and federal regulators are likely to put the Microsoft-Yahoo deal through the political meat grinder. Should the government have such power over...
- Relentless Cuts Net 0.0025% In Savings - July 30, 2009
- Washington: The administration has fulfilled a promise to cut spending by trimming $100 million from the 2009 budget. That's right — $100 million with an "m," an...
- The Cap-and-Trade Bill Is an Economic Disaster - June 26, 2009
- Fiscal Policy: The House of Representatives is preparing to vote on an anti-stimulus package that in the name of saving the earth will destroy the American economy....
- Trade Is the Real Jobs Solution - June 23, 2009
- Free Trade: With unemployment at 9.4% and worse on the way, there's no doubt the economy's hurting. If the White House and Congress are serious about ending job...
- Government Stimulus Consists Of Fraud and Abuse - June 17, 2009
- Combing through the long list of stimulus projects, Coburn found some real winners. Projects that have won millions of taxpayer dollars include everything from a turtle...
- Not Everyone Guessed Wrong About Stimulus - June 16, 2009
- Biden tried to rationalize the sad state of affairs, in which the jobless rate is now 9.4%, but finally just said that, "Everyone guessed wrong at the time the estimate...
- The President's Paygo Schtick - June 10, 2009
- But this is an inaccurate description of what budgeteers have dubbed "Paygo." If more money is spent, Congress doesn't have to "save" a dollar elsewhere at all — it...
- Card-Check Threat Alive And Well - June 4, 2009
- Besides denying workers a right to a secret ballot, "card check," as it's known, also forces federal arbitration onto companies for union contracts, ensuring that either...
- Geithner Takes His Act to China - June 3, 2009
- Maybe that explains what Leno's writers have been doing since his final show last Friday.Equally risible were these comments from Geithner shortly before departing for...
- When the Government Determines Success - June 2, 2009
- How's that compare with the other "stakeholders?" For spending $50 billion to bail out GM, the government will get 60% of the equity in the new GM; the UAW, which along...
- Social Security and Medicare: Apocalypse When? - May 13, 2009
- Everyone knew this day would come. And virtually every economist and actuary who had run the numbers could tell you, within a few years' certainty, the system was going...
- Where Are the Jobs In the Growth Forecast? - May 12, 2009
- Well, so far this year, 1.9 million jobs have been swallowed by the recession. So he's already nearly five million jobs in the hole.Now, Christina Romer, chairwoman of...
- What the Move Toward Green Means - May 6, 2009
- But some time ago, eco-activists and their allies in Congress understood that they could march the country to the left by small degrees if they disguised socialism as...
- Seeds Of Revival - April 29, 2009
- But they won't. Yes, things are bad. But the fact is, even the nasty 6.1% drop in first-quarter GDP — following an even nastier 6.3% plunge in the fourth quarter —...
- Ax the UAW's 'Jobs Bank', Save GM - April 28, 2009
- The latest restructuring includes shedding GM's Pontiac unit and offering the government a controlling stake in GM's stock. It would also give the UAW shares in exchange...
- The Stunning Level of TARP Waste, Fraud & Abuse - April 22, 2009
- And why has this happened? The Troubled Assets Relief Program, or TARP, said Barofsky, is "inherently vulnerable to fraud, waste and abuse, including significant issues...
- Save the Whales, Kill the Economy - April 21, 2009
- The plan was vacated, the panel ruled, because of allegedly insufficient environmental review because its "environmental sensitivity rankings are irrational."What is...
- Recovery's Coming - April 16, 2009
- In fact, virtually all the data now out show either a bottoming or slight upturn in activity. As the year goes on, that will gather steam.Even banks, which we've been...
- Taxpayers Get Really Tea-Ed Off - April 14, 2009
- If that is the message heard loud and clear from this unprecedented national movement against the liberal Democratic rule in Washington, and if Republicans endorse those...