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• Estonia’s Free Market Model And The US 1920-1921 Depression

  
  prudent investor newsletters — Authority: 134
  First of all I’d like to thank Mr. Kristjan Lepik for being a regular patron and on adding his priceless thoughts on Estonia. Mr. Lepik writes, ``Estonia has taken a rather different crisis-management approach than Western world (US, Western Europe et al) – no government stimulus, very ...
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• No More Talking Points – It’s Time for Economic Freedom

  
  The Foundry: Conservative Policy News. — Authority: 772
  Last week, Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke delivered a speech at the National Press Club titled “Back to Basics: A Blueprint for Exports-Driven Job Growth,” and remarked that “[President Obama’s National Export Initiative] will correct an economic blind spot that has allowed other countries to chip away at ...
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• Keynesian Doublespeak

  
  The Foundry: Conservative Policy News. — Authority: 772
  A year ago, President Obama warned the American people that the financial crisis was dire and required a whole new approach to government spending . Obama argued that the government must help America spend its way out of the recession, and his economists, using Keynesian multipliers, argued the “stimulus” would ...
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• Government spending does not create prosperity

  
  Voice For Liberty in Wichita — Authority: 478
  In his op-ed Don’t buy canard about spending , Alan Cobb of Americans for Prosperity writes about the illusion that government spending creates economic growth. It’s an important topic, as we’ve just been through nearly a year of Obama stimulus spending, and people are wondering if the effort has paid ...
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• Single European Currency: Single European Disaster

  
  The Foundry: Conservative Policy News. — Authority: 772
  Although the feckless spending of successive Labour Governments has resulted in massive decline for Britain , there is one thing that Gordon Brown got right on the economics front: he denied Tony Blair’s plans to take Britain into the single European currency. Launched in 1999, the Euro has been the bedrock of ...
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• Time to Change Directions

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 137
  Anyone that thinks Minnesota’s economic model makes sense needs to get in touch with reality ASAP. What’s worse is that the DFL’s tax proposals, especially their targeted tax credits, would make Minnesota’s economy worse, not better. Small business tax credits are nothing more than picking winners and losers. ...
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• Sarah Palin’s Tour de Force Speech

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 137
  Saturday night, I watched Sarah Palin deliver a spell-binding, stirring speech that, I suspect, reached well beyond the GOP’s traditional conservative base. In doing so, Sarah Palin demonstrated that this movement isn’t confined to the Republican Party, though she emmphasized that the “Republican Party would be ...
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• Who Profits from the Death Tax? Estate Planning Lawyers.

  
  The Foundry: Conservative Policy News. — Authority: 772
  If you ask attorney Harold Apolinsky who really profits from the death tax, he’ll tell you, “I think I do, as an estate planning lawyer,” but then he will tell you why the tax needs to be permanently repealed. According to Apolinsky, the death tax (or estate tax, as it is also known) taxes the transfer of a ...
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• CEI Weekly: Who Really Puts Spin in Climate Debate?

  
  Press Releases — Authority: 447
  >> Iain Murray Responds to Climate Change Peddling Blogger CEIs Vice President of Strategy, Iain Murray, in National Review Online, called out the founder of DeSmogBlog for foul play in his attempt to blame organizations, like CEI, for confusing the American public and the "collapse" of the global ...
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• Is the Need for Simple Stories Getting in the Way of Banking Reform?

  
  Gulag Blog — Authority: 172
  Let’s acknowledge the obvious: there are a lot of not trivial impediments to reining in the banking industry: the deregulation policies that put a comparatively small number of firms in charge of infrastructure critical to commerce; the fact that said firms have done a very good job at disguising the rents they ...
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• Is the Need for Simple Stories Getting in the Way of Banking Reform?

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 172
  Let’s acknowledge the obvious: there are a lot of not trivial impediments to reining in the banking industry: the deregulation policies that put a comparatively small number of firms in charge of infrastructure critical to commerce; the fact that said firms have done a very good job at disguising the rents they ...
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• Morning Bell: Second Stimulus, Same as the First

  
  The Foundry: Conservative Policy News. — Authority: 772
  When President Barack Obama was sworn into office, the U.S. economy employed 134.6 million people and the unemployment rate stood at 7.6% . In response to growing job losses, President Obama passed an  $862 billion stimulus plan that his economic experts promised would help the United States employ at least 138.6 ...
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• Does the Government Pose a Bigger Threat to Toyota Than its Sticky Pedals?

  
  The Foundry: Conservative Policy News. — Authority: 772
  Toyota’s bad press has been for its sticky pedal incident certainly isn’t surprising, but is all the negative attention warranted? When asked about the Toyota recalls, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood responded by saying , “My advice to anyone who owns one of these vehicles is stop driving it, and take it to ...
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• Are Greek Sovereign Debt Tremors a Start of a New Phase of the Crisis?

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 172
  After the months of buoyant markets, a return to crisis-type headlines seems troublingly familiar, even though the perturbations of the last day or so are a pale shadow of the worst months of the crisis. And some are making the bull case. For instance, a headline at Clusterstock trumpets s, “Yesterday’s Bloodshed ...
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• Are Greek Sovereign Debt Tremors a Start of a New Phase of the Crisis?

  
  Gulag Blog — Authority: 172
  After the months of buoyant markets, a return to crisis-type headlines seems troublingly familiar, even though the perturbations of the last day or so are a pale shadow of the worst months of the crisis. And some are making the bull case. For instance, a headline at Clusterstock trumpets s, “Yesterday’s Bloodshed ...
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• Tax-Credit-for-Hire: Another Failed Stimulus Policy in the Pipeline

  
  The Foundry: Conservative Policy News. — Authority: 772
  As President Obama continues campaigning for yet another round of stimulus it appears now that even democrats are beginning to question the soundness of this strategy .  This new focus includes a $5,000 tax credit—among other items— for any business that hires a new worker—effective the year the legislation is ...
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• Michael, your wish is granted

  
  Commonsense & Wonder — Authority: 157
  Phil Walker explains Capitalism to Michael Moore: "What Im asking for is a new economic order," [Michael Moore] says. "I dont know how to construct that. Im not an economist. All I ask is that it have two organising principles. Number one, that the economy is run democratically. In other words, the people have a ...
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• Alford: “Why Bernanke Should Resign”

  
  Gulag Blog — Authority: 172
  By Richard Alford, a former economist at the New York Fed. Since then, he has worked in the financial industry as a trading floor economist and strategist on both the sell side and the buy side. There was a long period of time during which I believed that Mr. Bernanke should have resigned the Chairmanship of the ...
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• Alford: “Why Bernanke Should Resign”

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 172
  By Richard Alford, a former economist at the New York Fed. Since then, he has worked in the financial industry as a trading floor economist and strategist on both the sell side and the buy side. There was a long period of time during which I believed that Mr. Bernanke should have resigned the Chairmanship of the ...
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• Economic Freedom Declined in United States in 2009

  
  artdiamondblog.com — Authority: 129
  Source of table: online version of the WSJ article quoted and cited below. (p. A17) The United States is losing ground to its major competitors in the global marketplace, according to the 2010 Index of Economic Freedom released today by the Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal. This year, of the ...
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