Will Obama’s Effort to Rescue Coakley Be Enough?
Despite President Obama’s quick flight to Boston on Sunday to try to rescue Martha Coakley’s faltering bid for the Senate seat vacated last summer, polls and others think his...
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Mass. Senate Race: It’s Going to be Close!
From obscurity to prominence to possible victory, Massachusetts State Senator Scott Brown’s campaign for Teddy Kennedy’s seat in a special election on Tuesday, January 19, is receiving national attention....
Weak Dollar Obama’s Fault?
According to Newsweek, the dollar isn’t weakening, and even if it is, it isn’t Obama’s fault. On Tuesday, Daniel Gross iterated all the reasons that, according to conservatives, the...
Rubio: The First Tea Party Senator?
The Republican primary in Florida, which pits Governor Charlie Crist against Marco Rubio, is being watched carefully as a harbinger for the impact the Tea Party may have on...
Democrat Retirements a Trend or a Tsunami?
The announcements by Democrat Senators Chris Dodd (Conn.) and Byron Dorgan (N.D.) last week that they will not be running for reelection in 2010 raised both concerns by Democrats...
The Fed: Forever Blowing Bubbles
An article in the New York Times asked that since the Federal Reserve “failed to recognize the last bubble,… why should Congress, or anyone else, have faith that future...
Stock Rally Owing to Plunge Protection Team Conspiracy?
The 60 percent gain in stocks since March was largely caused by secret government purchases of stock-index futures, the CEO of TrimTabs claims. ...
2010 Outlook Sour and Anxious
Several recent polls show the American people to be in a sour mood and anxious about the future, according to an op-ed column in the New York Times. ...
Bernanke: Lax Oversight Recession’s Cause
Regulatory failures and not low interest rates were responsible for the housing bubble, implosion and current recession, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke asserted on Sunday. ...
The Fed’s New Tool to Fight Inflation
Last Monday, the Federal Reserve unveiled its new “term deposit facility” as another tool to fight inflation. ...
Ponzi Schemes and Social Security
More than $16 billion of investors’ money evaporated in Ponzi schemes in 2009, according to the Associated Press. Although the names Bernie Madoff and Allen Stanford were in the...
Rep. Parker Griffith Changes From Democrat to Republican
Alabama Representative Parker Griffith announced on Tuesday that he is changing his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican. ...
Inside Goldman
When the New York Times announced in their lead article on the front page of their Christmas Eve edition that the Securities and Exchange Commission was investigating Goldman Sachs...
Will Obama Nominate Napolitano for the Supreme Court?
Evidence is mounting that Obama will have another opportunity to appoint a justice to the Supreme Court when Justice Stevens retires next summer. ...
The Economy: Cheerleaders vs. Reality
When MSNBC headlined the report that existing home sales surged by 7.4 percent in November (according to the National Association of Realtors), it suggested that such an improvement boosted...