Category Archives: Economy

Gold On Track for Biggest One-Day Fall Since 1983

By CLEMENTINE WALLOP, BIMAN MUKHERJI and FRANCESCA FREEMAN Gold continued to take a battering Monday, shedding more than $100 per troy ounce after China registered weaker-than-expected growth, sparking a new wave of selling on concerns that China and India – the world’s two biggest buyers – may slow purchases. Gold is on track to post [...]

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The Obama economy: It is dreadful

If grade-schoolers were more worldly wise, a decent playground insult these days could be: “He’s slower than the Obama recovery.” Or maybe, “Your mamma’s uglier than the last jobs report.” On Friday, the Labor Department reported that a dismal 88,000 jobs were created in March. That figure might be revised upward later, as previous jobs [...]

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Political Cartoons: Michael Ramirez

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Political Cartoons: Michael Ramirez

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Political Cartoons: Michael Ramirez

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The Superb Mitt Romney

By: Jay Nordlinger    NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE About 20 years ago, I often said, “You can say anything about Clarence Thomas. No matter how vile, false, or even racist, you can say it about Thomas, and get away with it. The culture permits it. It’s open season on Clarence Thomas.” Many years later, I said something [...]

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P.J. O’Rourke: Dear Mr. President, Zero-Sum Doesn’t Add Up

  Is life like a pizza, where if some people have too many slices, other people have to eat the pizza box?   By P.J. O’ROURKE Given that hypocrisy is an important part of diplomacy, and diplomacy is necessary to foreign policy, allow me to congratulate you on winning a second term. I wish I [...]

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GOP Deficit Plan Irks Conservatives

  Discord Complicates Negotiating Position of Boehner, Who Punished Four House Members; Obama Calls for Higher Taxes   WASHINGTON—Conservatives on Tuesday took aim at House Speaker John Boehner’s deficit-reduction proposal in the fiscal cliff talks, a dispute that was aggravated by Mr. Boehner’s decision to remove some conservatives from prized committees. Rep. Jim Jordan (R., [...]

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Investment Falls Off a Cliff

  U.S. Companies Cut Spending Plans Amid Fiscal and Economic Uncertainty   By SUDEEP REDDY and SCOTT THURM U.S. companies are scaling back investment plans at the fastest pace since the recession, signaling more trouble for the economic recovery.  Half of the nation’s 40 biggest publicly traded corporate spenders have announced plans to curtail capital [...]

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The Party’s Problem

From the forthcoming issue of NATIONAL REVIEW     The first thing conservatives should understand about the electoral catastrophe that just befell us — and it was a catastrophe — is that any explanation of it that centers on Mitt Romney is mistaken.   Much of the discussion of the race among conservatives has made [...]

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