The Auto Bailout: What’s Behind the Wheel?
As discussed in Senior Research Fellow in Regulatory Policy James L. Gattuso’s recent blog post, the House this week approved a new $25 billion loan… Read More
As discussed in Senior Research Fellow in Regulatory Policy James L. Gattuso’s recent blog post, the House this week approved a new $25 billion loan… Read More
Only in Washington can $7 billion dollars be considered a small amount. But that seems to be the feeling among many in Congress, which is… Read More
It is only fair for taxpayers to expect to benefit if hundreds of billions of dollars of their money is used to purchase poor quality… Read More
In the previous post we enumerated what any financial clean up legislation must have to earn conservative support. But as important as federal action is,… Read More
Democrats on Capitol Hill are claiming they have reached a deal with President Bush on a plan to cleanse the financial system of bad housing-related… Read More
Heritage fellow JD Foster explains what led to the credit crisis and why it cannot be ignored. There are unprecedented problems in the financial markets…. Read More
According to Rasmussen Reports only 30% of Americans currently support a government clean up of the financial system. The reason why? 50% of Americans “say… Read More
Politico‘s Ryan Grim says he used to work for the Marijuana Policy Project. He really should lay off the mind altering substances before he attempts… Read More
Anyone who tries to explain the Wall Street crisis in a single sound-bite is foolish…or worse. But House Democratic Leaders have found a culprit they… Read More
The current financial turmoil has changed Wall Street as we knew it forever. Seven decades worth of cumbersome, outdated, and harmful regulation will have to… Read More
This morning we highlighted just the worst policy proposal liberals in Congress are trying to attach to the financial bailout plan. But Sen. Chris Dodd’s… Read More
Former Comptroller General of the United States and Fiscal Wake-Up Tour star David Walker outlines how our impending entitlement crisis parallels the current subprime mortgage… Read More
So much has happened in just the past week, but our analysts are on top of the situation. Here is what Heritage has so far… Read More
It has become an article of faith on the left that the 1999 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act is to blame for the current crisis on Wall Street…. Read More
For years environmentalists have been prescribing mountains of new regulations on the fishing industry in an effort to protect fish populations. But their drive to… Read More
To hear leftist politicians and their media allies tell it, the current financial turmoil was directly caused by deregulations carried out in just the past… Read More
Every year the international accounting and consulting firm KPMG issues a Corporate Tax Survey to “help our member firm clients and other organizations consider developments… Read More
As Americans watch the financial markets agog at what’s next and tighten belts for fear of slowdown or even recession, Congress chugs merrily along on… Read More
Last week the Congressional Budget Office reported that the federal deficit will reach $407 billion this year. This actually is not as groundbreaking as it… Read More
There is a lot of information about the national debt, but misconceptions cloud the debate. There are five common misconceptions about the national debt. This video explains… Read More
When it comes to retirement and pension benefits, federal, state, and local government officials have all been humming the same mantra: never pay for something… Read More
Nothing gathers a crowd in Washington like the sight of money being handed out. Thus, in the wake of last weekend’s federal takeover of Freddie… Read More
Since the Federal Communications Commission’s ‘net neutrality’ order last month there have been an avalanche of lawsuits including four last week alone.Responding to the suits,… Read More
MINNEAPOLIS – Economic advisers from both Barack Obama and John McCain’s campaigns squared off in a panel on tax policy this afternoon, and the consensus… Read More
DENVER – Google CEO Eric Schmidt told an audience here at The Big Tent that the most common question he gets when he travels abroad… Read More
Columbia University Business School dean Glenn Hubbard writes in the Wall Street Journal today: The spending shortfalls in Social Security and Medicare are large. According… Read More
In an article in the New York Sun, I praised
“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long-range risks of comfortable inaction.” –John F. Kennedy “We are increasingly… Read More
At the tail end of an extremely long diatribe that is completely not worth reading, Andrew Sullivan asserts that America’s “military consumes more and more… Read More
Bloggers and web site operators may support, oppose, link to, and work cooperatively with federal political candidates. This freedom was reaffirmed when the newly re-constituted… Read More
