Federal funding of ACORN is not just a Democratic Party or Obama Administration problem. As a chart(PDF) produced by House Republican Leader John Boehner shows, most of the federal money going to the organization was provided under President George W. Bush. This is not something that most ...

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As a Group, 70 Percent of Families Will Receive More Benefits Than They Pay in Taxes Under Obama Plan

New Tax Foundation "Fiscal Incidence" Model Measures the Income Redistribution Caused by Federal Spending As Well As Taxes

Washington, DC – New reports from the Tax Foundation show that President ...

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There's a lot of talk about "service" these days from the government, but where public service traditionally meant the government serving the people, today it seems to mean the public serving the government. Serve.gov, rolled out by the Obama administration as part of the "United We Serve" ...

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Several Republican U.S. Representatives held a press conference Wednesday, September 16, 2009 to discuss legislative ways to reign in the power of Obama's nearly 40 czars.

Leading the effort was Rep.  Marsha Blackburn(TN), who is introducing House Con. Resolution 185. It expresses the sense of ...

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Ludwig Von Mises Institute

[The following introductory remarks by James J. Martin are excerpted from his book Revisionist Viewpoints: Essays in a Dissident Historical Tradition.]

J.M. Keynes's Famous Foreword to the 1936 German Edition of the General Theory

Historians write about economics with a ...

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The US Securities and Exchange Commission passed rules on Thursday to tighten supervision of credit ratings agencies following a torrent of criticism over their role in the financial crisis. Credit ratings agencies, which are usually paid by the issuers they rate, came under fire during the crisis ...

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Iceland's failed banks offer the West a lesson.

Why Iceland?: How One of the World's Smallest Countries Became the Meltdown's Biggest Casualty, by Asgeir Jonsson (McGraw-Hill, 224 pp., $22.95)

Nearly a year ago, tiny Iceland's financial institutions collapsed, just as banks and investment firms ...

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INSS Insight No. 130

In light of the redeployment of the American forces and despite the current tensions with Syria, Iraq is taking measured steps in order to reintegrate into the Arab world. In this context, Egypt recently named an ambassador to Baghdad, while Qatar, Oman, and Saudi Arabia have ...

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