Category Archives: Federal Reserve

Regional factories rebound, jobless claims up

Factory activity in the Mid-Atlantic region bounced back in July, lifting hopes of a pick-up in economic growth in the third quarter. However, a rise in the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits suggested the reacceleration in output would not be as strong as had previously anticipated. The Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank [...]

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Obama’s Latest Monstrosity

By:  John Berlau  The American Spectator  The 2,315 page Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill that President Obama will sign today should not be called “financial reform.” Instead the bill, which passed the Senate 60-39 last week when Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown joined Maine Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins to grant cloture, should be called what [...]

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Obama’s Hollow Shell: A.K.A. “Financial Reform”

I don’t have time to go into the financial reform bill that was passed by the Senate yesterday, so I just wanted to weigh in briefly with my opinion of the latest Obama Outrage. This bill is 2,300 pages long and I assume that the same diligence was pursued by Members of both Houses of [...]

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Light At the End of the Bailout Tunnel

  By DEBORAH SOLOMON WASHINGTON—The U.S. government’s rescue of wobbly companies and financial markets is starting to look far less expensive or long-lasting than once feared. As momentum grows at companies that looked like zombies just a few months ago to repay taxpayers for lifelines they got during the financial crisis, the projected cost of [...]

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America Rising Video: An Open Letter to Democrats

This video absolutely nails it. The way most Americans feel about the continuing betrayal of everything we value by the Obama administration and the morally corrupt Democratic Party. Please go to YouTube and copy and paste this video on every site you have access to and not just the conservative sites, but to the sites [...]

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Politico: The Huddle

Hat Tip to the hardworking folks over at Politico. I really appreciate that site and the RSS feed they make available. ~~John Cronin~~ POLITICO.COM Good Thursday morning and welcome to The Huddle. TAX THE RICH: Harry Reid is searching for more ways to pay for health care. AP’s David Espo: “Majority Leader Harry Reid is [...]

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The Wrong Financial Fix

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NjBhNmE0OTFlMDg0ZjFhM2FhYTYxYmQ3YjQzMTZjYmU= By the Editors NRO Sen. Chris Dodd (D., Conn.) has overseen the compilation of another dictionary-sized piece of impenetrable legislation, this one intended to reform our bank regulators and thereby prevent a repeat of the recent financial crises. His approach is the wrong one, undermining the institutions that have performed relatively well, such as [...]

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