Written by Vasko Kohlmayer - FrontPageMag.com

"The higher jobless rate could be the new normal" reads the headline of a recent AP report. Further down we read:
"Even with an economic revival, many U.S. jobs lost during the recession may be gone forever and a weak employment market could linger for years."
The report's message is clear. It ...
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Written by Claude Cartaginese - NewsReelBlog.com - FrontPageMag.com

Before President Barack Obamaleft for China to meet with his bankers, he took a moment to announce that he has scheduled a major "unemployment summit," with CEOs, small business owners, economists, financial experts and representatives from labor unions and nonprofit groups "to talk about how we ...
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Written by Alan Caruba

You will recall that, shortly before the end of the 2008 political campaign, the White House announced a threat to the entire financial system and called on Congress to enact emergency spending powers. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 was enacted on October 3, 2008.
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Written by TheDailyBell

The editors of The Daily Bell are pleased to present an exclusive follow-up interview with high-powered financial observer and Thatcher-confidante, John Browne.
John Browne on the European Union, Germany's Startling Role and the how the Monetary Elite is Trying to Come to Grips with the Internet
Introduction: ... Read more: John Browne on the EU andGermany's Role and the Monetary Elite and the Internet
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Written by Congresswoman Michele Bachmann

Even as our nation's unemployment rate surpassed 10% -- exceeding even the worst case scenarios that the White House projected -- speaker Pelosi intends to bring to the floor her $1-trillion-plus health care reform proposal.
Washington, Nov 6 - Even as our nation's unemployment rate surpassed 10% ... Read more: House Ignores High Unemployment and Continues to Push PelosiCare
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Written by Luigi Zingales

Republicans need to be pro-market, not pro-business.
(Grand Ol' Gang by Andy Thomas)
For 30 years, the Republican Party dominated American political life, winning five of the seven presidential elections before 2008. But the GOP has taken its lumps of late, culminating in its loss of Congress in ...
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Written by David Mason
Abstract: In response to the recent financial crisis, the Obama Administration and the Federal Reserve Board are capping executive salaries and bonuses, and imposing a host of new regulations and mandates--all in the name of reducing risk. If the rule of unintended consequences applies anywhere, it ... Read more: Why Government Control of Bank Salaries Will Hurt, Not Help, the Economy
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Written by Matt McCaffrey

Mises Daily
[Can Capitalism Survive? Creative Destruction and the Global Economy • By Joseph Schumpeter • New York, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2009 • 208 pages]
The most famous chapters of Joseph Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracyhave been republished in paperback under ...
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Written by Roy Beck - NumbersUSA.com

Sen. Durbin (D-Ill.) last night [10/26/2009] and today [10/27/2009] is once again using his leadership position to make false claims about E-Verify's reliability and to project the absolutely foolish notion that unemployment and immigration have no relationship.
But while he laments the 125,000 who ... Read more: Sen. Durbin Works To Help Illegal Aliens Unemployment Benefits
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