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    Obama Plan Blows Secret Kisses to Wall Street

    April 28, 2010 at 1:30 pm

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    Somebody spilled the beans Tuesday, telling the truth about the financial reform bill being debated in Congress. But most media ignored it. Rather than being the targets of this bill, Wall Street financiers will be rewarded by it. The chairman of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, told a Senate subcommittee, “The … More

    Video: Barney Frank’s Permanent TARP

    December 11, 2009 at 12:54 pm

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    As early as today, the House is set to approve Rep. Barney Frank’s (D-MA) financial regulation bill intended to prevent future Wall Street bailouts by granting regulators sweeping new powers to control firms deemed “too big to fail.” But as Heritage Senior Research Fellow David John explains below, the Frank … More

    DOJ’s New Antitrust Rule: “Too Big To Succeed”

    May 13, 2009 at 4:14 pm

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    For months now, the Treasury Department has been grappling with the consequences of “Too Big to Fail” — the idea that some enterprises are too large to allow to fail. Now here’s comes the Justice Department with “Too Big To Succeed,” the idea that some firms are too large to … More

    Unintended Consequences on Executive Pay II: Pay Caps

    February 4, 2009 at 5:02 pm

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    Policies premised more on class-warfare than sound economics, are not going to get us out of this recession. They may actually delay recovery. In my last post, I discussed the example of a ban on “golden parachutes” for top executives. Now, another item from the Treasury’s pay rules for companies … More

    Unintended Consequences on Executive Pay I: Golden Parachutes

    February 4, 2009 at 4:12 pm

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    Policies premised more on class-warfare than sound economics, are not going to get us out of this recession. They may actually delay recovery. A case in point: the executive pay guidelines released by Treasury today.  Though the new rules seem to apply, at this point, to only the few corporations … More

    Morning Bell: Market Rescue Dos and Don’ts

    September 26, 2008 at 8:49 am

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    Leaders of the liberal majorities in the House and Senate yesterday  tried to claim they had completed a deal with the White House to address the Wall Street crisis. From the beginning, leaders on the left have both demanded the White House deliver conservative votes for any deal and then refused … More

    Morning Bell: The Wrong Direction

    September 24, 2008 at 9:14 am

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    There is no doubt that past government intervention in the market, particularly by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, is largely to blame for the current financial turmoil. And while past government intervention cannot be used to justify further government interference, we also have to ask how much unnecessary pain the … More

    Facts Kill Another Liberal Myth

    September 17, 2008 at 2:28 pm

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    To hear leftist politicians and their media allies tell it, the current financial turmoil was directly caused by deregulations carried out in just the past eight years under President Bush. Barack Obama aide Austan Goolsbee told Politico: “The core issue is pretty easy to understand. We’ve just spent the last … More

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    Ed Meese: We’ve Seen the Effect of “Amnesty” BeforeExperts can’t always predict exactly how public policy will affect the nation, despite our best efforts. But when it comes to immigration policy, we have tried many of the types of reforms advocated by today’s Gang of Eight—so we should consider the effects these reforms had in the past. In … MoreMore
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