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President Barack Obama and former president Bill Clinton used the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit to push for the Export-Import Bank’s reauthorization. During the summit’s headline event,… Read More
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Neither the federal government nor state governments should impose mandatory labeling of genetically modified organisms in food. Here’s why. For thousands of years, humans have… Read More
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When lawmakers return from their August recess, they’ll be facing pressure to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank, a government agency whose charter is set to expire on… Read More
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President Obama’s approval ratings continue to plummet. Americans’ approval of the president sunk to a new low at 40 percent according to an NBC/Wall Street… Read More
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Rep. Aaron Schock, R-Ill., offered support for the Export-Import Bank in a recent interview even as he criticized the government for providing taxpayer-backed subsidies to U.S. companies… Read More
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Long-term unfunded obligations in Medicare and Social Security alone reached nearly $49 trillion, according to the 2014 report from the Social Security and Medicare Boards… Read More
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A Massachusetts liberal who helped mastermind new legal restrictions from Congress that shook up Wall Street now sees reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank as a… Read More
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It’s the first such proposal in almost 30 years, and incumbent members of the House of Representatives have no desire to see the complicated measure… Read More
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The campaign for cronyism grabbed headlines on Monday, when the chairman of General Electric claimed that taxpayer subsidies are “crucial” to American trade with Africa…. Read More
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Oakland City Council members who favor a minimum-wage increase have received campaign donations and research from wage-hike activists and labor unions. Last week, the council voted,… Read More
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Economist Matthew Mitchell says ridesharing companies make a lot of sense in places such as Albuquerque, N.M., where he grew up. “There’s limited public transportation… Read More
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The home state of Boeing’s airplane division benefits the most from financing by the U.S. Export-Import Bank, and by a huge margin, a state-by-state analysis… Read More
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The House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures held a hearing recently about the importance of dynamic scoring of tax reform. Tax reform… Read More
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Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin had quite a good day on July 31 when the state supreme court upheld not only Wisconsin’s voter ID law, but… Read More
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Councilmen in Oakland, Calif., rejected an increase in the city’s minimum wage, opting instead to let residents vote in November on a plan to hike the rate… Read More
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Is the increasing automation of our economy a threat to American wages and jobs? Should the American worker fear the rise of the robots? No,… Read More
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SANTA FE, N.M.—“The Bachelor” is one of television’s highest-rated shows. But for taxpayers such as Jill Meyer, the decision by the Santa Fe City Council to commit… Read More
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The most successful lobbyists in the nation’s capital are masters of masquerading propaganda as fact. Repeat even outright falsehoods with a modicum of conviction, and… Read More
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President Obama today on his support for reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank: “We will lose business. And we will lose jobs if we don’t pass it.”… Read More
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On the jobs front, it’s a story of not much better and not much worse. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ July employment report shows middling… Read More
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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a new report that examines whether “too big to fail” banks enjoy a cost advantage over smaller banks… Read More
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A Connecticut lawmaker hopes to open another front in the war on childhood obesity and diabetes. On Wednesday, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, a Democrat, introduced a… Read More
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Harry Truman once complained he wanted to find a one-handed economist because he was tired of asking a direct question of those on his economic team,… Read More
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The U.S. Senate must be suffering from lame duck amnesia. In last night’s debate on a Highway Trust Fund (HTF) patch, it approved an amendment… Read More
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Senator Rob Portman (R–OH) proposed reforms to Social Security and Medicare in The Wall Street Journal last week. Reforms to both programs “can not only… Read More
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The chairs of the House and Senate Veterans Affairs committees made a deal on Monday to authorize $15 billion in additional spending in response to… Read More
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One argument keeps coming up in favor of reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) is that letting the bank expire would amount to unilateral disarmament. This… Read More
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Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., who previously voted to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank, told The Daily Signal this week he’s undecided about whether he’ll support the bank this time… Read More
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The Export-Import Bank announced today it would halt financing deals with Russia and Russian companies. The Department of Treasury notified House Financial Services Chairman Jeb… Read More
