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By John Tamny of RealClearMarkets The late Hall of Fame football coach Bill Walsh used to say that the quarterback’s footwork often told the tale of games. If Walsh lacked access to the scoreboard,...
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There is plenty of conventional wisdom about why the recession will not be helped or hindered by the results of the presidential and congressional elections. The first and foremost among these is...
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Wall St. is a den of thieves and NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo wants to wipe them out on his way to becoming governor like his father was before him. His latest attempt to get some time in the...
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The federal budget deficit hit $455 billion for its September fiscal year. That is up $389 billion from the year before. The deficit will certainly get a lot worse. The bank bailout is not just...
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Bloomberg reports that "Richard Fuld, the chief executive officer of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., may tell legislators angry about Wall Street’s excesses that eroding confidence in the financial...
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If Congress was worried that the bailout package was or wasn’t going to help, the failure out of the House of Representatives to pass the new bailout package just killed the stock market. As it...
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As media reports started commenting today, it looks like both Presidential candidates are going to stop campaigning and go back to Washington D.C. to deal with this government bailout issue. John...
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Henry Paulson’s bank bailout bill never had a chance of making it through Congress unencumbered. The only question was how may boat anchors the House and Senate would attach. The sinking of the...
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Paulson, Bernanke & Co. are learning just how diabolical the legislative process can be. Their $700 billion financial rescue program is meant to buy toxic assets from US banks and financial...
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Nearly everyone in Congress likes the Paulson plan to bail out American financial institutions by purchasing up to $700 billion of their troubled assets. Nearly every legislator wants to add new...
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Most dictators get to wear general’s uniforms, have multiple palaces, and several wives. Henry Paulson had better call his tailor. The Administration’s proposal to buy up to $700 billion in...
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John Tamny of RealClearMarkets Alongside last Friday’s announcement that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin would be John McCain’s running mate, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 170 points. Stocks...
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On tonight’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer said that a stock you can buy that didn’t even have to buy off politicians to do well is Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (NASDAQ: CLNE). This turns out that...
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On Sunday, T. Boone Pickens issued a press release stating that he had met with Senator Obama in Reno, Nevada to discuss his energy plans. This follows the statement he issued Friday stating that...
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Russian shares in ETF’s, closed-end funds, and ADR’s are taking a little beating this morning after Russian forces have rolled in with tanks, troops, and air raids into Georgia’s breakaway...
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