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Tag Archives: Barack Obama
Take My Power. Please.
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Picture this: Your local electric company finds itself with too much power for its system to handle, so it offers …
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Another Misdirected, Unproductive Subsidy
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My parents did not own a house when I was growing up, but we were never homeless. Maybe that is …
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Immigration Madness
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A court’s role is to apply the law, not to set policy. But in the Kafkaesque nightmare that America’s immigration …
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Retirement Annuities: A False Sense of Security
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A lot of people worry about outliving their money. Commercial annuities, sold by insurance companies, promise to keep paying as …
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Ending My Company’s Health Care Benefit
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Since I hired my first full-time employee 15 years ago, I have always offered to pay for my staff’s health …
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Kicking The Umpire Out Of The Game
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When Greece raised 5 billion euros (nearly $7 billion) in the bond market earlier this month, it had to offer …
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Fallible Forecasts
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In 2007, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change surprised scientists when it declared in its seminal report on global …
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Good Intentions, Unintended Consequences
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When it comes to making good health care policy, good intentions are not enough. That is something President Obama and …
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The TARP Shuffle
A few weeks ago, General Motors and the U.S. Treasury Department took the dance floor together for a turn at …
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