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A Lucid Summary of the Climategate Aftermath
Incentives Matter —
Authority: 130
Heres Mike Hammock on a lucid summary of the Climategate aftermath (HT Division of Labours Carden , italics are mine): I’m certainly not qualified, and ideologues won’t resolve the issue. I expect this to play out in the literature as it would in any other science. I will still defer to the collected expertise ...16 hours ago -
Comcast-NBC: Why is the FCC Involved?
The Foundry —
Authority: 754
Bidding has begun on Comcast’s acquisition of a majority stake in NBC Universal. No, not the bidding between GE and Comcast over the terms of the sale. That was the comparatively easy part. The real bidding is over at the FCC, as various interests work to get concessions and pledges from Comcast as a condition ...2 days ago -
Obama’s Failed Stimulus in Pictures: Jobs Gap Grows to 7.6 Million
The Foundry —
Authority: 754
Another month under President Obama, another 11,000 jobs lost, pushing the total Obama jobs deficit to 7.6 million. One day after the White House jobs summit admitted that the President’s policies — including the massive $787 billion stimulus enacted last spring — are not working to create jobs, the Department ...2 days ago -
The November Jobs Report: Lack of Job Creation Making Jobs Difficult to Find
The Foundry —
Authority: 754
The Bureau of Labor and Statistics released their November employment report showing the nation’s unemployment rate dropped all the way to 10%. While it is encouraging to see that the economy is beginning to recover, there are still some worrying data in the report. Heritage fellows James Sherk and Rea Hederman ...2 days ago -
TARP: Will This Crony Capitalist Slush Fund Ever Die?
The Foundry —
Authority: 754
It’s been used to buy one car company , give another to union allies , punish non-union workers , undermine the bankruptcy code , enrich Wall Street at the expense of Main Street , keep unionized Zombie firms from dying , and generally terrorize the world economy . Now the left in Congress wants to use it ...2 days ago -
House Votes to Raise Death Tax
The Foundry —
Authority: 754
The U.S. House of Representatives voted to permanently extend the death tax at its current 45 percent rate and $3.5 million exemption. This is a significant tax hike since the death tax was supposed to expire on January 1, 2010. The increase of the death tax is a major blow to the badly weakened economy since the ...2 days ago -
Where Are the Jobs? In Washington of Course
The Foundry —
Authority: 754
Federal stimulus spending is stimulating business for contractors helping the government figure out how to spend the stimulus money, reports the Washington Post . Government agencies say they can’t properly oversee the $789 billion stimulus package without hiring outside help. As a result, the region around the ...2 days ago -
Morning Bell: The Definition of Economic Insanity
The Foundry —
Authority: 754
In January 2008, the United States economy employed 138.1 million people and the unemployment rate stood at 4.9%. But the powers in Washington thought deficit spending could boost a slowing economy, so Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) passed and President George Bush signed a $168 billion economic stimulus bill made up ...2 days ago -
In the Green Room: GOP Whip Eric Cantor’s 7 Point Job Plan
The Foundry —
Authority: 754
Click here to view the embedded video. Yesterday, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) outlined a seven point common sense plan for job creation here at the Heritage Foundation. Item number 1: “Halt Any Proposed Rule or Regulation Expected to Have an Economic Cost, Result in Job Loss, or Have a Disparate ...3 days ago -
“Tea Party” Film Tells the Story of a Truly American Movement
The Foundry —
Authority: 754
From the opening scenes of “Tea Party: The Documentary Film,” one thing is perfectly clear: the “Tea Party” movement is not about Republicans or Democrats; it’s about ordinary Americans shocked into action by their government’s intervention in the market, Wall Street bailouts, and a path toward national ...3 days ago -
Barney Frank’s Plan: A Permanent TARP?
The Foundry —
Authority: 754
The House Financial Services Committee yesterday OK’d a key part of Barney Frank’s agenda for reform of the financial industry yesterday, voting to 31-27 to adopt his plan for so-called “too-big-to-fail” banks. The measure has been widely touted as providing a way to avoid future budget-busting bailouts of ...3 days ago -
Free markest create jobs, not governments
Irish Mortgage Brokers Blog —
Authority: 131
In this clip John Stossel talks about the free market being a job creator as opposed to Governments, he covers points similar to those that Milton Friedman covered in his documentary ‘Free to Choose’, and the truth of the matter is that governments are highly inefficient in creating growth, they have a place in ...3 days ago -
The Jobs Summit: Jobs Failure 2.0
The Foundry —
Authority: 754
The unemployment rate when President Obama took office last January was 7.6 percent and credit markets were in the throes of a global contagion. He immediately tasked Congress with passing a fiscal stimulus bill, and signed a $787 billion whopper in March. Politicians rarely admit mistakes, especially big ones. ...3 days ago -
Why Big Government Stimulus Fails
The Foundry —
Authority: 754
Today the White House will host a Forum on Jobs and Economic Growth featuring such leftist luminaries as Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman . Yesterday The Heritage Foundation hosted House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) for a presentation on his common-sense job creation plan . After Cantor spoke, Heritage ...3 days ago -
Dead Men Pay No Taxes
The Foundry —
Authority: 754
As the Congress prepares to address the death tax in the waning weeks of December, one argument undergirds the primary defense the tax. The argument is the tax is needed for “fairness”, to impose an adequate level of taxation on the rich. Of all the arguments in tax policy, this may be the least legitimate, ...3 days ago -
Noon Today: Live POLITICO Webchat on Jobs, Economy & the Death Tax
The Foundry —
Authority: 754
Join Heritage’s Alison Fraser, Director of Economic Policy studies , and POLITICO senior editor Fred Barbash today at noon when they discuss the White House’s Job Summit , Friday’s November’s jobs report and the Death Tax . Click here to ask a question and follow along .3 days ago -
Guest Blogger: Rep. Schock (R-IL):Free Trade Will Boost Jobs
The Foundry —
Authority: 754
Today, President Obama is hosting a jobs summit at the White House with union bosses and corporate CEOs to discuss ways to accelerate job creation in the US. Noticeably absent are any representatives from the Chamber of Commerce or the National Federation of Independent Businesses, who represent most of the employers ...3 days ago -
Now Can We Use The ‘S’ Word?
Conservative Compendium —
Authority: 134
Howard Dean was a major contender for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 2004, and later served as Chairman of the DNC. In other words, he is a mainstream Democrat. It is thus significant when he says a bit of capitalism mixed with a dab of socialism is the way to go. This level of ...3 days ago -
United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government —
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Watch Live: Cantor’s Jobs Plan
The Foundry —
Authority: 754
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) delivers a major address at 2 p.m. ET today at Heritage explaining why creating jobs doesn’t have to cost money. Cantor’s speech — which has already generated coverage from ABC News , National Journal , The Atlantic and The Hill — comes a day before President ...4 days ago
