Category Archives: Wall Street Journal

“A Battle the President Can’t Win “

Writing in this weekend’s Wall Street journal, former Reagan speech writer and current opinion columnist , Peggy Noonan, drops a rhetorical bombshell when she says that the Dept. of Health and Human Service’s Sec’y Kathleen Sibilius’ administrative ruling that Catholic Hospitals and other institutions must offer health care plans that offer abortion and contraceptive products [...]

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Deficit Again Expected to Top $1 Trillion

By KRISTINA PETERSON And DAMIAN PALETTA WASHINGTON—The federal budget deficit likely will top $1 trillion for the fourth consecutive year in fiscal 2012 as the economy continues to grow at a sluggish pace, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicted Tuesday. Congress’s official budget scorekeeper projected a sober outlook in its semi-annual report Tuesday, forecasting that [...]

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The Desolate Wilderness

Here beginneth the chronicle of those memorable circumstances of the year 1620, as recorded by Nathaniel Morton, keeper of the records of Plymouth Colony, based on the account of William Bradford, sometime governor thereof: So they left that goodly and pleasant city of Leyden, which had been their resting-place for above eleven years, but they [...]

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Dow Sinks 6.4% for Week

By STEVEN RUSSOLILLO THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Fears of a possible Greek default and the U.S economy dipping back into recession pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average to its worst weekly decline in nearly three years. Stocks edged slightly higher on Friday, as a pledge from global officials to maintain financial stability alleviated some investor [...]

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Stock markets plunge after Obama speech

By JOSH BOAK Deep skepticism about Congress passing President Barack Obama’s $447 billion jobs package and fears that Greece could slip into default sparked a severe stock market selloff on Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 304 points, or 2.69 percent, a reminder of how dangerously fragile the situation is despite government initiatives [...]

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Economy Sinks Markets

The U.S. economy is showing new signs of fatigue, depressing financial markets, discouraging consumers and unsettling businesses. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 419.63 points, or 3.7%, Thursday, and is down 9.5% for August amid soaring trading volume and some of the worst volatility on record. Angst about the health of the U.S. and European [...]

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Compromise?

“I can pretty confidently say this debt-ceiling increase will avoid default” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell Are the Republicans about to cave in? For real-time updates on the Debt Ceiling visit WSJ’s Live Blog Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Tell a friend

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America Tunes Out

Why is Obama such a bore? One historian blames Reagan. By:  JAMES TARANTO Michael Goodwin of the New York Post “listened intently” to President Obama’s Monday press conference, but only “for 15 minutes or so.” That’s 15 minutes or so longer than the duration of our own intentness, but we did listen falteringly to the whole [...]

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Sluggish Hiring Seen as a Threat to Recovery .

By PHIL IZZO The potential for a persistent slowdown in hiring is the biggest threat to the U.S. recovery, according to economists in the latest Wall Street Journal economic forecasting survey, as they sharply cut the number of jobs they projected the economy would create in coming months. “If jobs don’t grow fast enough, the [...]

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The Future of Music is No Longer Medieval

Fans Rock Out—On A Sales Commission After a breakout debut in 2005, the British rock group Kaiser Chiefs released two more albums, then effectively burned out. They were tired of the grind of promoting records, says singer Ricky Wilson: “Even being in a rock and roll band wears you down.” Then the group came up [...]

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