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Two-time former Estonia Prime Minister Mart Laar visited The Heritage Foundation today, extolling the benefits the flat tax brought to his country. First passed in… Read More
Two-time former Estonia Prime Minister Mart Laar visited The Heritage Foundation today, extolling the benefits the flat tax brought to his country. First passed in… Read More
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. chair Sheila Bair gave a curious interview to US News & World Report this week. While Democrats in the House are… Read More
The early narrative of the housing market collapse featured all the usual suspects: sleazy mortgage bankers, shadowy lenders and pushy Wall Street brokers – all… Read More
Polling shows that while 61% Americans oppose bail outs for Wall Street investment companies, 56% support “the federal government taking steps to help prevent people… Read More
Pricewaterhouse Coopers and the World Bank Group released their 2008 “Paying Taxes” publication earlier this week. The study compares tax regimes from around the world… Read More
Building on news that the bipartisan consensus behind the Senate’s “Foreclosure Enhancement Act” is beginning “to crumble,” the White House sent a letter to Speaker… Read More
Yesterday House Republican leaders issued a joint statement outlining “Principles for Bipartisan Housing Legislation.” Many of the principles are sound in theory, but could also… Read More
The Heritage Foundation has been raising doubts about the Senate’s efforts to “do something” on the housing crisis for weeks now. With a vote scheduled… Read More
Considering how quickly the Senate is moving on a housing bailout bill (cloture scheduled for 2:15 Tuesday), it is surprising how universally unpopular some of… Read More
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Kimberly Strassel details what exactly the labor movement is expecting from Democrats in return for their nearly $1 billion in… Read More
With rumors swirling that President Bush will submit the Colombia Free Trade deal to Congress Tuesday, Presdient Alvaro Uribe sat for interview with the Wall… Read More
CQ reports that the Senate is debating “a contentious bankruptcy amendment” to the broad housing bill now under consideration. The amendment sponsored by Sen. Dick… Read More
The Wall Street Journal editorial page looks at recent liberal efforts to attack conservative economic policy as a Herbert Hoover “Let the economy sink” approach… Read More
The pressure on Congress to “do something” on housing appears so great that many members normally inclined to keep Congress out of the housing market,… Read More
Explaining new Republican support for congressional action on housing, Sen. John Thune (R-SD) admitted to Politico: “You always want to be able to vote for… Read More
The agreement reached by the Leadership in the Senate to bring housing legislation to the floor is both good news and bad. It is good… Read More
Congress has returned from their spring break to mounting pressure to “do something” about the current financial turmoil. The Hill reports: “Republican senators have spent… Read More
Here’s a preview of the week ahead in Washington. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an2ZGW85Ad0[/youtube] Recent troubles with the financial and housing markets have lead to proposed action by Congress… Read More
Today, an authoritative and diverse group of scholars warned the American people: “If present trends continue, the nation’s deficit will reach unmanageable proportions, other vital… Read More
In their Business section front page puff piece on Free Press policy director Ben Scott, the Washington Post does reports that FP’s “critics” often note… Read More
Following up on yesterday’s post on the Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees report, The Heritage Foundation released a chart today looking at how… Read More
John Kay has a great column in the Financial Times today titled: “More Regulation Will Not Prevent Next Crisis.” Kay concludes: Banking supervision should then… Read More
The New York Times has an article out today titled: “A Political Comeback: Supply-Side Economics” that asserts “the big supply-side tax cuts of the 1980s… Read More
The Heritage Foundation’s Chairman of the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies Ed Meese and Senior Research Fellow in Regulatory Policy James Gattuso issued the… Read More
The Justice Department finally approved the merger between XM and Sirius last night. Now the FCC is the only barrier standing between sports fans and… Read More
The Washington Post solicited plans from each of the remaining presidential campaigns on what each candidate will do, if elected, “to solve the current crisis.”… Read More
The USA Today has a front page story promoting plans by Democratic presidential contenders Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to end “a tax break they… Read More
Stephen Moore has a must read article in the Weekly Standard this week detailing not only how public sector unions have bankrupted the city of… Read More
Despite the Fed’s bold and timely moves, the U.S. economy overall has at best entered a period of slow growth, and may be teetering on… Read More
The March 13 report of the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets is a good start towards preventing another credit crisis like the one that… Read More
