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The Public is Resisting Obama's Liberal Agenda - Victor Davis Hanson, RCP

Why does President Obama want to implement all at once radical changes in American foreign policy, environmental policy, education, health care and the tax code?The answer is easy:...

The Housing Crisis Isn't Over Yet - James Surowiecki, The New Yorker

Last week, when the Obama Administration sat down in Washington with the country’s biggest mortgage servicers, it was sending a clear message: it’s time for banks to be more ag...

Green Jobs Can't Save The Economy - Joel Kotkin, Forbes

Nothing is perhaps more pathetic than the exertions of economic developers and politicians grasping at straws, particularly during hard times. Over the past decade, we have turned ...

The Regulatory Wreckage of 'Cash for Clunkers' - Richard Epstein, Forbes

Human interactions take place either by agreement or force. There is no third way. As a general matter, the good libertarian prefers the former to the latter, except of course wher...

TARP Has a Few Big Gains, Many Big Losses - Allan Sloan, Washington Post

One of the things they teach in Successful Investing 101 is to cut your losses short and let your winnings run. But when it comes to the Troubled Assets Relief Program, the govern...

Soaking the Middle Class - Detroit News

Having doubled the federal budget deficit in just six months in office, the Obama administration now says that the expanding deficit threatens the nation's fragile economic recover...

You Can Bet on It: Obama Will Raise Taxes - Byron York, DC Examiner

Each week the Gallup organization publishes an analysis of job approval for President Barack Obama, broken down by all sorts of demographic groups. You want to know the president's...

Cash for Clunkers Won't Help Car Market - Jeremy Anywl, Wall St Journal

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Is China the New Us? Or Are We? - Kurt Andersen, Time

Author Kurt Andersen's new book, Reset: How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America, examines the economic, political cultural opportunities to be found in the wake of...

Let's Have a $4,500 Subsidy for Everything - Wall Street Journal

Americans are streaming back into auto showrooms, and one reason is the “cash for clunkers” subsidy. Democrats are naturally claiming this is a great success, while Rep...

'Clunkers' Rebates At Risk Unless Senate Acts - Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON -- Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Sunday that unless the Senate approves $2 billion in additional funding, the Obama administration could be forced to halt as ...

Climate Bill Demands Pile Up for Boxer, Kerry - New York Times

The Senate breaks at the end of this week for a monthlong summer recess, but not before the Environment and Public Works Committee takes one more swing at the legislative debate ov...

Interview with Secretary LaHood - The Situation Room

MALVEAUX: OK, Brianna.Thank you so much.With business picking up, is it a time for the car industry to stand on its own four wheels, essentially?Joining me now, Transportation Secr...

It's A New Bull Market - Larry Kudlow, RealClearMarkets

Let’s call this what it is: A new bull market in stocks has emerged from the ashes of the financial meltdown and the deep recession that followed. And it’s signaling the onset ...

The Good-Bad News in Second-Quarter GDP - Wall Street Journal

The bad news in yesterday’s second-quarter GDP is that the recession was even deeper than previously thought. Or should we say that is the good-bad news. Beca...

Trying to Recover - New York Times

As the economy crawled into 2009, there was never any reasonable doubt about the need for immense federal stimulus. But there was plenty of unreasonable opposition. Only three Repu...

Forget Second Stimulus; We Need Economic Vision - Joel Kotkin, Politico

As the American economy slowly heals, the Obama administration will no doubt claim some credit for its $787 billion stimulus — and perhaps even suggest doubling down for a se...

Cash-for-Clunkers Program Running on Fumes - Detroit News

That was quick. The Transportation Department was preparing to suspend its $1 billion "Cash for Clunkers" program late Thursday, after it had all but run out of money. The surprise...

President Obama: I'm Not Anti-Business - Adler & Sasseen, BusinessWeek

In a July 27 interview in the Oval Office, President Barack Obama reflected on his first six months in office and discussed his evolving relationship with business leaders.The Pres...

Profits We Should Cheer - Stephen Carter, Washington Post

A specter is haunting America: the specter of profit. We have become fearful that somewhere, somehow, an evil corporation has found a way to make lots of money.Flash back three yea...

$30B Available for 'Smart Grid' Projects - New York Times

The Energy Department is making up to $30 billion in loan guarantee authority available for renewable energy and electric grid modernization projects.A blog about energy, the envir...

Obama's Goals Could Put New Burdens on Economy - Nina Easton, Fortune

Barack Obama promised universal health care and a mass conversion to green energy when he launched his presidential campaign. On that frigid February day in 2007, the economy was g...

A Rebound Without Recovery - Marie Cocco, Indianapolis Star

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Global Trade Collapse is Over, But No Recovery in Sight - The Economist

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Have Americans Figured Out Obama? - Ben Stein, The American Spectator

Why is President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get his socialized medicine bill passed?Because he and his cunning circle realize some basic truths:The American people in their ...

Obama Appears Clueless About Economics - Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard

Increase Font SizePrinter-FriendlyEmail a FriendRespond to this articleIs President Obama an economic illiterate? Harsh as that sounds, there's growing evidence he understands litt...

Aggressive Antritrust Chief Faces Resistance - New York Times

WASHINGTON — President Obama’s top antitrust official and some senior Democratic lawmakers are preparing to rein in a host of major industries, including airline and rai...

The Economy Has Hit Bottom - Alan Blinder, Wall Street Journal

How’s the economy, you ask? I have the proverbial good news and bad news, but in this case, they’re exactly the same: The U.S. economy appears to be hit...

Energy Dept. Buildings Waste Energy - Associated Press

The Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M. (Getty)You'd think the Energy Department would be good about saving on energy consumption, but a new internal audit suggests ...

Americans Concerned About Obama's Spending - Frank Newport, Gallup

Fueled by the sentiments of Republicans and independents, a new USA Today/Gallup poll shows that 59% of Americans say President Obama's proposals to address the major problems faci...

States Are Getting in the Way of Recovery - James Surowiecki, New Yorker

If you came up with a list of obstacles to economic recovery in this country, it would include all the usual suspects—our still weak banking system, falling house prices, overind...

The Fed's Exit Strategy - Ben Bernanke, Wall Street Journal

The depth and breadth of the global recession has required a highly accommodative monetary policy. Since the onset of the financial crisis nearly two years ago, the...

The Liberal Suicide March - David Brooks, New York Times

It was interesting to watch the Republican Party lose touch with America. You had a party led by conservative Southerners who neither understood nor sympathized with moderates or r...

The Squandered Stimulus - Robert Samuelson, Newsweek

It's not surprising that the much-ballyhooed "economic stimulus" hasn't done much stimulating. President Obama and his aides argue that it's too early to expect startling results. ...

Obama Should 'Reset' His Presidency - Ted Van Dyk, Wall Street Journal

Time out, Mr. President.As we approach the August congressional recess, it's clear that our economic distress is deeper than we thought, and thus your health-care and energy initia...

Bleeding the Economy Back to Health - Louis Woodhill, RealClearMarkets

When someone got sick during the Dark Ages, doctors would use leeches to bleed the patient. If the patient got well, then the bleeding worked. If they died, then they were beyond h...

Obama Moves the Economic Goalposts - Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal

So what's a president to do when the promises he made about his economic stimulus program fail to materialize? If you're Barack Obama, you redefine your goals and act as if America...

Democrats' Healthcare Surtax is Disastrous - James Pethokoukis, Reuters

So what explains the crazy, cockeyed optimism of House Democrats? Maybe they still believe Team Obama’s rosy-scenario forecast that shows the stimulus package a) keeping unem...

A Personal Inequity - Thomas Sowell, RealClearPolitics

Sometimes, when I hear about "disparities" and "inequities," I think of a disparity that applied directly to me-- the disparity in basketball ability between myself and Michael Jor...

The Consequences of Big Government - Robert Samuelson, Newsweek

The question that President Obama ought to be asking -- that we all should be asking -- is this: How big a government do we want? Without anyone much noticing, our national governm...

Rebuilding Something Better - President Barack Obama, Washington Post

Nearly six months ago, my administration took office amid the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression. At the time, we were losing, on average, 700,000 jobs a mon...

Higher Taxes, Anyone? - George Will, Sacramento Bee

Talk of Another Stimulus Brewing - Charlie Cook, National Journal

Sign In nationaljournal.com > National Journal Magazine > Cook Report Sponsored LinksAdvanced Searchby Charlie CookSaturday, July 11, 2009Among the multitude of t...

The Einvironmentalist Attempt of a Take Over - Mark Steyn, OC Register

More Orange County nightlife, surf and events   Executive Chairman of Marks and Spencer Stuart Rose, left, invites Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall to smell the freshness of t...

Even the Employed are Losing Out - Moira Herbst, BusinessWeek

In some respects, Kristi Pohly is lucky. The 33-year-old marketing manager still has her job at Pharmatech Oncology in Denver, having worked there for more than six years. But the...

The Best We Can Hope For - Rober Lenzner, Forbes

The good news is that the economy is not contracting any more sharply; it is only declining at a less rapid pace. The bad news is that employment, consumer spending, industrial pro...