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  • Video:Employee Free Choice vs. Wall Street Greed

    By AFL-CIO April 13, 2009

    Text by Seth Michaels Who’s behind the opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act ? It’s the same corporate executives and Wall Street millionaires whose greed and irresponsibility led to our nation’s economic crisis—the same people who are looking for taxpayer-funded bailouts...

  • News:Forget AIG, Family Banks are Actually Thriving in U.S.

    By The Cato Institute April 02, 2009

    Why did some banks and financial institutions fail and others succeed? There are many reasons, but one common ingredient of those that have not failed is that they are organized as partnerships and/or are controlled by a family, or are closely held by a few senior officers. That is, they...

  • Opinion:Free Market is the Recession Cure, Not the Disease

    By Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights April 07, 2009

    By Alex Epstein, analyst at the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights What must be done to recover from this financial crisis? Barack Obama rightly stresses that we first must understand how today’s problems emerged. It is “only by understanding how we arrived at this moment that we’ll be...

  • Opinion:What Happens When Banks Fail and We Own Them?

    By Robert Reich May 07, 2009

    The outcome of the "stress tests" will be that the banks needing extra capital will get it from the Treasury. But where will the money come from, now that the TARP fund is almost exhausted and Congress is dead set against providing more bank bailout money? The Treasury will simply swap debt...

  • Opinion:Green Economy and Green Climate Not Mutually Exclusive

    By U.S. Climate Task Force May 12, 2009

    Public awareness has posed a significant challenge to environmental advocacy in recent decades. Fortunately, education efforts have paid off. Today, most Americans recognize the need to protect our environment and address the threat of climate change . But with our attention now turned toward...

  • Opinion:Some Say the Recession is Already Over

    By Reason Foundation July 15, 2009

    By Tim Cavanaugh Is our long international nightmare over? Has the recession ended already? Yes, says Bank of America Merrill Lynch. (Now there's a company that combines the two names everybody thinks of when they think of sound financial planning and long-term economic vision.) According to a...

  • Opinion:Defending the Right to Sell Your Organs

    By Reason Foundation July 28, 2009

    by Radley Balko In response to last week's arrest of Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, who's accused of trafficking black market human organs, Village Voice blogger Roy Edroso dials up the snark , and challenges libertarians who advocate a free market in body organs to defend Rosenbaum. There are...

  • Opinion:It's Time to Tax Wall Street's Risky Behavior

    By Public Citizen December 03, 2009

    By Robert Weissman, president, Public Citizen Americans have a right to expect Wall Street to pay . Wall Street should pay for the trillions of dollars of public supports it has received to continue operation, and it should pay for the massive damage it has inflicted on the national and global...

  • Opinion:Is Obama's "Responsibility Tax" on Banks Legal?

    By Reason Foundation January 18, 2010

    By Tim Cavanaugh It didn't take long for the constitutional weaknesses in President Obama's proposed "Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee" to become clear . Eric Dash of Los Tiempos de Nueva York reports that a trade group is already setting up for an eventual constitutional...

  • News:Feds Freeze Online Poker Accounts

    By Reason Foundation June 10, 2009

    The feds may not be able to arrest people for gambling online (technically, it isn't illegal), but it looks like they plan to make life pretty difficult for them. From the Wall Street Journal: In an apparent crackdown on Internet gambling, federal authorities in New York have frozen...

  • Opinion:Democrats Raking in Cash From Wall Street

    By OpenSecrets.org June 11, 2009

    Although the economy didn't show many signs of improvement in the first few months of 2009, Democrats were benefiting more from Wall Street than they had in any previous cycle, pulling in 58 percent of all contributions that the finance, insurance and real estate sector gave between January...

  • Opinion:Sending Kids to College is Like Throwing Them to the Wolves

    By Suzanne Venker June 15, 2009

    Today there's an article in the WSJ titled "Conservatism and the University Curriculum." The fact that college campuses are dominated by liberals and teach solely through this lens should be of paramount importance to Americans. It is no small matter. When I was in school (at Boston University...

  • Opinion:Robert Reich's 3 Essential Rules for Financial Reform

    By Robert Reich June 17, 2009

    As the White House unveils its long-awaited proposals to prevent another Wall Street meltdown in the future, keep a lookout for three essentials. Without them the Street will revert to its old ways as soon as the coast clears. In fact, now that the government has bailed out the Street, the biggest...

  • Opinion:Liberal Media Predictably Biased Over Palin Resignation

    By Suzanne Venker July 07, 2009

    Theoretically, conservatives should be able to take a lot of heat from the media . After all, the liberal media represents the minority , not the majority, in America. Despite their constant presence in our lives, the beliefs of those in the media are in stark contrast to most Americans'...

  • Opinion:"Cash for Clunkers" is Dumbest Idea Yet

    By The Cato Institute August 03, 2009

    by Doug Bandow Sigh. Will the error never end? If you listen to Washington, you would think that taking money from taxpayers, who otherwise would buy cars , homes, computers, and any number of other items, and giving it the same taxpayers to get them to buy cars is a great way to stimulate the...

  • Opinion:FCC Investigates Apple's Rejection of iPhone App

    By Reason Foundation August 09, 2009

    How awesome is the iPhone? As a proud owner—I camped out overnight to get 2008's 3G model—I'll vouch for its addictive niftyness, and admit that I often find myself wondering how I ever got through a day without one. Between the intuitive touchscreen interface and the endlessly delightful...

  • Opinion:Insider Trading is Illegal -- Unless You're a Congressman

    By Public Citizen September 22, 2009

    Everybody knows that insider trading is illegal. Wall Street big wigs who get caught giving their cronies valuable information before it’s made public go to jail. Yet, those same rules don’t apply in the halls of Congress where members, their staffs and other federal officials can use the...

  • Video:Obama News Conference with Doctors Needed Shot in the Arm

    By Heritage Foundation October 05, 2009

    In what was billed as doctors trekking across the country to enthusiastically support President Barrack Obama’s health care agenda, his press conference at the White House on Monday was in need of serious resuscitation. From a lackluster response among the 150 doctors...

  • Opinion:Robert Reich's 4 Ways to Create New Jobs in this Economy

    By Robert Reich October 06, 2009

    In his Saturday radio address, President Obama acknowledged the White House is exploring "additional options to promote job creation.” It's about time. This is the worst job market in seventy years -- including the longest duration of steep job losses. If anyone had any doubt that something far...

  • Video:Video Explains Why Cap-and-Trade is a Scam

    By Public Citizen December 07, 2009

    Need an explanation of cap and trade that even a climate change denier could understand? Check out this short video hosted by Annie Leonard whose film Story of Stuff took a hard look at our culture of excessive consumerism. She continues the theme with a series of new videos that will...

  • Opinion:Latest IRS "Scheme" -- Tax Workers' Cell Phones

    By The Cato Institute June 14, 2009

    By Daniel J. Mitchell With about 100,000 employees (more than the CIA and FBI combined), the IRS has plenty of people who daydream about new ways of taking money from taxpayers. The latest scheme to emanate from the tax bureaucracy is to classify employer-provided cell phones as a taxable...

  • Opinion:Obama's "Light Touch" On Economy Pretty Darned Heavy

    By The Cato Institute June 30, 2009

    By Gene Healy "I am a firm believer in the power of the free market," President Obama told the Wall Street Journal recently. The "irony" surrounding his public image as a collectivist, the president insisted, was that "I actually would like to see a relatively light touch when it comes to the...

  • Opinion:Why are Gas Prices Increasing Again?

    By John Rafuse July 15, 2009

    Once again, we’re living through volatile price swings with gasoline prices . Despite the most recent decline, the price of oil has risen 55% since the beginning of the year.  Now, we’ll no doubt go through the inevitable routine of “rounding up the usual suspects,” as Claude Raines...

  • Opinion:Rising Gas Prices -- Who is to Blame?

    By Heritage Foundation July 29, 2009

    The national gas price average is $2.51 for July 28, 2009, far less than the $3.96 it was one year ago to this date, but still high enough to make you groan as you wait for a seemingly-endless long time for that click of the pump, letting you know your tank is full. And, just like every other...

  • News:Bill Regulating Wall Street Exec Pay Advances in House

    By AFL-CIO July 29, 2009

    A key congressional committee took another step toward reforming the way Wall Street works yesterday. By a vote of 40-28, the House Financial Services Committee approved H.R. 3269 , the Corporate and Financial Institution Compensation Fairness Act. The act would help end the excessive...

  • Opinion:Murdoch to Charge for News Web Sites; Will it Work?

    By Reason Foundation August 06, 2009

    News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch says he's bringing the days of the free interwebs to a close . In the course of reporting some extremely grim financial results, Murdoch said News Corp intends "to charge for all our news websites," adding, "If we're successful, we'll be followed by all media...

  • Opinion:Gov't Already Runs Health Care For Nearly 30% of Country

    By AFL-CIO September 29, 2009

    Some people say they don’t want health care reform because they don’t want the government involved. Or—shiver me timbers and pass the Socialist smelling salts—they don’t want a “government-run health care system.” Here’s news for them: The private health care system in the...

  • Opinion:New Research on Spanking May Need a Time Out

    By National Center for Policy Analysis October 15, 2009

    Three recent, widely reported studies on spanking children claimed to show that the disciplinary practice impairs cognitive development in children. Together, they held out the promise of providing the latest, definitive word on a passionate debate, says the Wall Street Journal. Statistical...

  • Opinion:Economy Needs More Than Just a Good "Black Friday"

    By Public Citizen November 24, 2009

    By Rick Claypool As the smiling pundits chatter incessantly to maximize participation in the traditional post-Thanksgiving festival of mass consumption this year, Black Friday is emerging this year with exaggerated significance for those who equate the health of Wall Street with the health of...

  • Opinion:Why the "Trade" in Cap-and-Trade is Important

    By Natural Resources Defense Council December 03, 2009

    By Andy Stevenson The "trade" portion of the cap and trade bill is getting a lot of heat from the left and the right as being just another way for the banks to get rich and leave us with the bill. These concerns are certainly understandable given the fact that the American consumer is still...