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Obama’s ‘Weird Reversal’ on the Export-Import Bank
In a new video from Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, President Obama appears to be a bit confused as to why Republicans would oppose the… Read More
EconomyCommentary
8 Reasons Congress Should End Taxpayer Support for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) provides loan guarantees, political risk insurance, and direct loans to U.S. and foreign companies to encourage investment in developing… Read More
EconomyCommentary
6 Crucial Budget Facts Lawmakers Need to Remember
The end of the fiscal year is here, meaning that Congress is scrambling to resolve a host of important budget issues that lawmakers have ignored… Read More
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Poll: Two-Thirds of Americans Think Closing Libraries Wouldn’t Impact Them, Their Families
Should taxpayers keep funding public libraries? The majority of Americans, 66 percent, believe that closing public libraries would have little to no impact on themselves… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Time to Prosecute the EPA Like Any Other Company
Last month, the EPA caused a spill of toxic waste into the Animas River in Colorado. That event demonstrates that even the federal agency responsible for regulating… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Cronies May Throw Fits, but Ex-Im Should Stay Dead
Let’s say you’ve been letting your child watch too much TV. You decide, quite sensibly, to cut down on his viewing time. Think he’ll realize… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Can Two Polar Opposite Senators Muzzle the Federal Reserve?
The Federal Reserve has injected trillions into the banking system since the 2008 crisis, and we’re still stuck in a low-growth economy. Yet rather than… Read More
EconomyCommentary
General Electric Needs to Tone Down Its Ex-Im Rhetoric
Media outlets across the nation readily accepted the claim this week by General Electric that 500 U.S. jobs, including many from Greenville, would be moved… Read More
EconomyCommentary
DC’s Plan to License Personal Trainers Hits a Snag
This week, Washington, D.C., took another step towards becoming the first jurisdiction in America to license personal trainers. The little-known Board of Physical Therapy voted… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Obama’s Broadband Opportunity Report Undercuts FCC Regulation of the Internet
This week, the Obama administration released its long-awaited report on broadband adoption, produced by a presidential “Broadband Opportunity Council” representing 26 federal agencies. Among other… Read More
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Senators Block Spending Bill Defunding Planned Parenthood for One Year
A government spending bill that prohibited Planned Parenthood from receiving federal dollars for one year and kept the government operating failed in the Senate today…. Read More
EconomyCommentary
Congress Should Fix the Broken Highway Trust Fund
After bailing the Highway Trust Fund out (yet again) with $8 billion dollars at the end of July, Congress faces yet another deadline to authorize… Read More
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Is Another Fiscal Cliff Coming? Why Conservatives Are Concerned
Republicans riding high after passing their first budget plan in six years earlier this year are in for a familiar scare: the specter of a… Read More
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Senate Republican Leaders Introduce Government Spending Bill Withholding Planned Parenthood Funding for One Year
Senate Republican leaders unveiled a continuing resolution today that would fund the government for just under three months and prohibit Planned Parenthood from receiving federal… Read More
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Conservatives Have Unlikely Ally In Arguing Reconciliation Cannot Be Used to Defund Planned Parenthood
Republican leaders have been considering using a budget tool known as reconciliation to strip Planned Parenthood of its federal funding. Reconciliation is a tactic that… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Here’s Congress’s Latest Unbelievable Gimmick
Frustrated voters sometimes denounce their representatives as “good for nothing,” but are they being fair? Consider the budget gimmicks some politicians come up with. When… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Can Uber End Traffic Jams? CEO Has Bold Plan to Overhaul Transportation Industry
Travis Kalanick gave a rare interview in San Francisco this week at the mega Dreamforce conference. Since Uber began getting regularly hammered in the press for… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Chicago Adds Ridiculous 9% “Cloud Tax” on Netflix and Other Streaming Services
Streaming companies like Netflix, Spotify, and Amazon Prime are revolutionizing how Americans consume media content. These wildly popular services enable ubiquitous and virtually instantaneous access… Read More
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Census Bureau Employees Charged Taxpayers Over $1 Million in Time Never Worked
A report from the inspector general released Thursday found “pervasive misconduct” in the U.S. Census Bureau’s Hiring and Employment Check Office. The report found falsified… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Cartoon: Are 40 Million Americans Truly Poor?
Senior research fellow Robert Rector wrote earlier this week on the Census Bureau’s poverty report: Today, the Census Bureau will release its annual poverty report…. Read More
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Warren, Vitter Team Up to Take on Wall Street’s ‘Too Big to Fail’ Megabanks
Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and David Vitter, R-La., have merged in an unlikely pairing to rein in the Federal Reserve’s emergency lending powers to Wall… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Personal Trainers Next on Washington’s Over-Regulation List?
When Andrew Killion opened District Crossfit in 2010, he was training a few handfuls of people in a converted auto garage. Today, Killion oversees one… Read More
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Why Conservatives Object to Leadership’s Latest Tactic for Ending Planned Parenthood’s Federal Funding
Conservatives are pushing back against a Republican leader’s plan to use a budget tool known as reconciliation to strip Planned Parenthood of its federal funding…. Read More
EconomyCommentary
3 Reasons to Focus on Something Other Than the Fed’s Interest Rate Target
Stocks tumbled in several major markets earlier this week because, supposedly, investors were nervous about this weeks Fed meeting. The Fed has flirted with raising… Read More
EconomyCommentary
How Do America’s Poor Really Live? Examining the Census Poverty Report
Today, the Census Bureau will release its annual poverty report. It will almost certainly report that over 40 million Americans “live in poverty.” But what… Read More
Lesser Prairie Chicken Case a Win for Good Environmental Policy
Earlier this month, a federal district court in Texas dealt a blow to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and its misguided approach to… Read More
EconomyCommentary
New York City’s Latest Attempt to Control Uber
Earlier this year, when New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio tried to cap the growth of Uber and other ridesharing companies, he was forced… Read More
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Five Years After the Recession, Only 21% of Small Businesses Say They’ve Recovered
More than five years after the end of the “Great Recession,” only 21 percent of small businesses* say they have fully recovered. During the recession,… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Puerto Rico’s Warning to the Mainland: Stop Kicking the Can Down the Road
The findings of Puerto Rico’s Fiscal and Economic Recovery Working Group should serve as a warning sign to the U.S. Government that putting off economic… Read More
EconomyCommentary
A Higher Minimum Wage Would Eliminate Opportunity for Success
Watching the news these days, it may seem as though a minimum-wage job is the equivalent of a life sentence of poverty. But nothing could be… Read More
