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Canadian Unions help prove economic ignorance and protectionism are something America doesn’t hold the copyright on. Two of Canada’s largest unions are urging the federal… Read More
Canadian Unions help prove economic ignorance and protectionism are something America doesn’t hold the copyright on. Two of Canada’s largest unions are urging the federal… Read More
As Congress considered the unprecedented federal spending increase on education programs, Members should take the time to check out the American Legislative Exchange Council’s new… Read More
University of Chicago school of business professor Luigi Zingales has a plan to address the housing crisis that doesn’t involve bankruptcy judge cram downs or… Read More
As the Drudge Report was highlighting Betsy McCaughey’s commentary on Bloomberg.com on how the Obama Stimulus Bill will ruin your health care, the Senate quickly… Read More
New York University economics professor Mario Rizzo kicks off the second morning panel “Market-Based Solution.” He begins by taking fire at the macroeconomists who are… Read More
In the world of international affairs, popular phrases usually signify not thought, but its absence. Calls for ‘a new Marshall Plan,’ for example, are invariably… Read More
Last speaker on the morning panel, Cato Institute adjunct scholar Arnold Kling. Kling begins somberly: “I think about what’s going on as an economist but… Read More
Heritage senior fellow J.D. Foster speaks next at the “Economic Recovery: Free Markets vs. Big Government” conference. He takes on the intellectual foundation of the… Read More
The Heritage Foundation and the Club for Growth are co-hosting a conference this morning titled “Economic Recovery: Free Markets vs. Big Government”. Kicking off is… Read More
As Americans huddled around their televisions last night to see President Obama’s first prime-time press conference, they were instinctively not only judging his performance, but… Read More
Yesterday the Pew Research Center released a new poll on the economic stimulus debate. Like every other poll taken so far, the Pew poll showed… Read More
Americans have been trying to tell Washington for the past week that the “stimulus bill” is not the change they were asking for last November…. Read More
Heritage fellow James Carafano writes in the DC Examiner: No issue carries greater potential for crisis than the growing threat of missile attack. Last week,… Read More
Despite a harsh economic downturn, Moscow is continuing down the road of solidifying its positions in the post-Soviet space and crowding the United States and… Read More
MEET THE NEW STIMULUS, SAME AS THE OLD STIMULUS This weekend, a small group of Senators emerged from two days of negotiations to announce they… Read More
In less than a week, the city of New Orleans will begin celebrating Mardi Gras including over 20 different parades in a ten day span…. Read More
Eric Holder, the new Attorney General has the opportunity this week to show whether he really intends to keep his promise of supposedly making sure… Read More
Dr. Steven West, president of the Florida Medical Association, notes that the economic stimulus bill contains a down payment on President Barack Obama’s plans for… Read More
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford made some very important, insightful points on Sunday. He said them very concisely, as politicians know how to do. They… Read More
Newt Gingrich was on ABC’s This Week yesterday, and he nailed exactly why the Obama Trillion Dollar Debt Plan is destined to fail:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ66wcoJgnw&eurl=http://www.foundry.org/&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Our unofficial… Read More
This past Saturday, Vice President Joe Biden gave a troubling speech at the 45th Munich Security Conference. Heritage Director for Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom… Read More
Defending President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plan on ABC’s This Week, National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers told George Stephanopoulos: “We need an approach that’s… Read More
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a study on Wednesday, that estimates the impact of the Trillion Dollar Spending Plan being debated on the floor… Read More
In a study released this morning, Heritage senior fellow Robert Rector pegged the honest cost of the House economic stimulus plan at $1.34 trillion, not… Read More
It’s no surprise the stimulus bill is loaded with green energy initiatives. Ideally, the bill can kill two birds with one stone by creating green… Read More
The New York Times reports today: Japan’s rural areas have been paved over and filled in with roads, dams and other big infrastructure projects, the… Read More
From Heritage Senior Research Fellow Robert Rector’s latest analysis of Obama’s Trillion Dollar Debt Plan: The recently passed U.S. House of Representatives stimulus bill contains… Read More
In Britain, London’s buried under eight inches of snow, the trains don’t work, the economy’s collapsing, and a Labour government’s put the nation deeper in… Read More
A key argument in favor of the stimulus package is that it contains several measures that are not only good for the environment but will… Read More
Trial lawyer Neil Fineman brought a class action lawsuit on behalf of customers of a department store who were asked to provide personal information to… Read More
