Investors Business Daily Economy:Now that the bad news of Chicago’s failure to land the 2016 Olympics is out,can we move on and do something about an economy that’s bleeding jobs? Almost lost in the Olympic hoopla was news that the U.S. shed 263,000 jobs in September and [...] By Edmund Conway,UK Telegraph Barack Obama is committing the same mistakes made by policymakers during the Great Depression,according to a new study endorsed by Nobel laureate James Buchanan. His policies even have the potential to consign the US to a similar fate as Argentina,which suffered a painful and [...] By NEIL KING JR. and JONATHAN WEISMAN,Wall Street Journal Obama is making decisions other Presidents left to experts In briefing President Barack Obama one day this spring,White House economist Jared Bernstein delved into such arcana as the yields on different forms of credit relative to the risk. Later,Paul [...] by Llewellyn H. Rockwell,Jr.,LewRockwell.com Rather,my focus here is on the spin:the press hated him,and exaggerated the failings of the economic structure in order to destroy policies it hated. The contrast with the Obama administration can’t be more stark. No one in these ranks said [...] Dick Morris,NY Post IN the polling hierarchy,the least signif icant data measure is a president’s per sonal popularity. Here,President Obama excels,with most polls showing him in the high 60s. Next comes his job approval,significant but not necessarily predictive. Obama’s approval,in the Rasmussen Poll,has now dipped to 51 [...] By LAWRENCE KUDLOW,Investors Business Daily There’s no question that current government policies for taxes,spending and regulation are causing the U.S. to lose competitiveness in the global race for capital,prosperity and growth. Of course,China has been moving in the direction of free-market capitalism for years. To some extent,[...] -Bob Englehart,The Hartford Courant | |
