![]() Features 09/22/08 THE ECONOMY Kill the bailout: Will the real fiscal conservatives please stand up? Columnist Michelle Malkin beats up the $700 Billion Bailout. The Rightroots (mostly] balk, and many conservative bloggers are also opposed to the Bush Administration's bailout plan. 09/22/08 THE ECONOMY How the Democrats Created the Financial Crisis by Kevin Hassett, director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. If a serious 2005 Fannie and Freddie reform bill passed by the Senate Banking Committee had become law, then the world today would be different. The bill would have created a "world class regulator" to oversee the pair more like banks, strictly limiting their ability to take the excessive risks that brought them down. But the bill didn't become law for a simple reason: Democrats opposed it in party-line ranks and the Senate never got to vote on the matter. 07/18/08 THE ECONOMY - GERMANY Killing Jobs to Save the Climate By Karsten Stumm of Der Spiegel Online. The price of European emission permits is rising so rapidly that German companies are threatening to leave the country. Thousands of jobs could be lost. And the environment may, in the end, be no better off. Hell in a Handbasket Life under a Democrat Congress is backsliding. Chart the losses with this table from Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform Drill here. Drill now. Drill ANWR, Center Senior Advisor Paul Driessen takes on the economic issue of the year. Published in the Washington Times and Posted in TownHall.com. |








