Obama’s Legacy is Failure
No need to wait around three years and beyond to know what Barack Obama’s “legacy” will be. It will be failure. Few, if any, presidents have demonstrated his level of incompetence and ineptitude.
Tagged: Freddie Mac
Economics · Environment/Energy · FIRE · Politics
Resentencing Skilling: Reading Between The Lines
Jeffrey Skilling has always maintained his innocence. Will he get a new trial?
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Economics · FIRE · Legal Affairs · Politics
Gambling in the Casino: U.S. vs. Standards and Poor’s
Like Captain Renault in the 1942 movie Casablanca, I am “shocked… shocked” to find that gambling has been going on in the mortgage-backed securities business. And so, apparently, is the[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · FIRE · Liberty · Regulation · Taxes
Paul Krugman, Occupy Wall Street, and the Never-Ending Push to Tax the Rich
Last week in the New York Times, economist Paul Krugman called for higher taxes than the Clinton era, citing how increased revenues need to be in the picture and not[...]
Economics · FIRE · Regulation
Postscripts: National Debt, Libya, Inflation and the Fannie/Freddie Mess
Reactions to recent events by astronaut, former U.S. Senator from New Mexico and Heartland Institute board member Harrison Schmitt (cross-posted at Schmitt’s personal blog, America’s Uncommon Sense): Debt Limit The fiscal house[...]
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- Charles Krauthammer: Thought police on patrol - The Washington Post
- Thoughtcrime at Mozilla — Jonathan Last Online
- A Conversation Between Milton Friedman and Gary Becker
- Organic activists need GMOs now more than ever
- Bullies drove Eich from public square: Column
- Jonah Goldberg: Climate activists uncaged
