December 4, 2008
A government spending stimulus will fail. Throwing money at failing corporations or even at individuals through "rebates" will not succeed in getting the economy growing again. To do this, individuals and business must have the right incentive to spend money. They need to be convinced that their ...
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In a matter dear to the hearts of the progressive labor movement, an Obama spokesman has reaffirmed the incoming President’s commitment to support the Orwellian-named “Employee Free Choice Act”. The measure, which progressives claim to be “pro-labor” is more aptly descr...
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Michael Turton analyses some views of Taiwan from the US establishment. The Far-Eastern Sweet Potato criticises the advice of the European Chamber of Commerce Taipei. ...
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Nobel Prize winner and columnist for the New York TimesPaul Krugman has advocated a new major spending program in recent weeks that would closely resemble the New Deal of President Franklin. D. Roosevelt. Krugman argues that the New Deal created jobs, improved the country’s economy, and pulled...
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I learned today that the Walmart employee killed on "Black" Friday was 34 year old Haitian immigrant Jdimytai Damour. People are saying that consumerism killed Mr. Damour. I believe that greed, violence and indifferent callousness killed him. There is a distressing lack of respect for human life in ...
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Today it's expected the President Elect Obama will name his once presidential rival, Bill Richardson, as Secretary of Commerce. Richardson was touted as a strong choice for Secretary of State, a position that went to another Obama once-rival, Hillary Clinton. Many feel that Obama's passing over G...
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Congressional leaders are signaling that some form of bailout for the struggling auto industry is likely to be approved quickly. In a turnaround from their dismal public relations efforts in November, auto industry executives are offering to make some symbolic sacrifices of their own in order to g...
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Writing for Reason Magazine, Shikha Dalmia explains that the U.S. government should let the ‘big three’ automakers go broke since they will collapse in the long run regardless of what the government does. Not only will these automakers cease to exist in the middle to long run, they shoul...
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The Las Vegas Sun (they have newspapers in Vegas???) reports that the incoming Obama administration may be backing quietly away from its promise to sign “card check” legislation that would revoke workers’ rights to have a secret ballot before the formation of a union and allow the ...
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