Mark Levin Readies Lawsuit on Slaughter Rule
Not so fast.
Democrats poised to use the so-called “deem and pass”
strategy to force through a health care bill will have to deal
with Mark Levin first.
Levin, known to his fans as one of the most popular talk
show hosts in the country, is also both [...]
Econ 101: Moral Hazard and How Government Policies Encourage Foolish Behavior
Via Daniel J. Mitchell, Nicki Kurokawa, a former Cato employee, explains “moral hazard,” and notes that government-subsidized risk played a pernicious role in the housing bubble and financial crisis, and warns that “too big to fail” may create similar problems in the future. Someone needs to send this video to Barack Obama, Timothy Geithner, Harry [...]
Could See This Coming!
In the companion piece to this post, Couldn’t See That Coming!, we noted that the United States Department of the Treasury, run by tax evader Timothy Geithner, has decided to institute wage controls at those companies that accepted large amounts of TARP money; TARP is the Troubled Asset Relief Program… that is, the Wall Street [...]
Recovery Through Small Business
Today, I accompanied President Obama to a small business called Metropolitan Archives in Landover, Maryland, which is just outside of Washington, D.C. The business was founded by two long-time friends (Joe Incarnato and Doug Peters) who saw an opportunity to transform an empty warehouse into a full-service records storage center for companies and nonprofit organizations. [...]
Geithner’s got chutzpa
Reuters reports that U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was quoted on Wednesday. as saying “Americans have to save more.” This, coming from a guy that pushed the stimulus spending from day one and only 4 days ago said it was too soon to stop spending.
Saying that the American people should save when the federal government [...]
How to Succeed in Politics Without Really Trying
As the Tribune Company reports (in nearly identical articles by the same reporters in the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times), and as noted by my old blogboss Ed Morrissey at Hot Air, President Barack H. Obama’s firing of Gerald Walpin, Inspector General of AmeriCorps — without the required notification of Congress 30 days [...]
