After months of talk about solutions that would rev up job growth and the economy, today the House Financial Service Committee may finally adopt a true bipartisan stimulus. Led by Democratic Reps. Carolyn Maloney of New York and John Adler of New ...
Tomorrow, 7-Eleven Inc. and other big retail chains will hit Capitol Hill to offer Congress members and their staffs a supersize serving of hypocrisy. Retailers, who rightly complain about costly government mandates in health care and other areas, are ...
One year after the Wall Street meltdown, President Obama is touting new regulations he says are urgent for preventing a crisis like this from ever happening again. “Obama challenges Wall Street to support his regulations,” reads the headline of a ...
In the new movie “Julie & Julia,” Meryl Streep does well portraying the late Julia Child, but one can say Streep also benefits from her subject. The much-loved food author and pioneering television chef had a vibrant personality and passion about ...
regulation and the benefits of the free market, Kennedy said at a hearing, "Regulators all too often encourage or approve unreasonably high prices, inadequate service, and anti-competitive behavior. The cost of this regulation is always passed on to ...
Tributes are pouring in for Edward M. “Ted “ Kennedy, who lost his battle to brain cancer late Tuesday evening at the age of 77. Most tributes to the “Liberal Lion” focus on his accomplishments at expanding government spending and regulation. And ...
Yet in a sense, this settlement is at least a partial victory — for privacy rights, international relations, and the rule of law. The U.S was forced to back away from its outrageous demands that would have set a precedent endangering U.S. ...
Lawyers for the U.S. government and the Swiss bank UBS AG have announced that they have reached a deal on releasing to the US the names of UBS account holders. No new details of the agreement have been released, other than what was previously ...
After the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) calculated the enormous costs of an all-encompassing health care scheme with a bloated public option, members of Congress from both parties asked for more due diligence before rubber stamping the ...
Amid all the endless media psychobabble about “national conversations” and “teachable moments” - and we will no doubt here more of this in the reporting of the “beer summit” at the White House today — I have been trying to weigh the established facts ...
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