![]() Features 02/27/2010 THE ECONOMY Cap-n-Trade Coalition Dropouts: Conoco, BP, Caterpillar The nation's capital is still scooping up last week's snow, but at least one thing appears to be melting fast: the business and environmental coalition pushing for cap-and-trade climate legislation. 12/7/09 THE ECONOMY Greens' Real Target: U.S. Economy The 16,000 delegates to the two-week-long orgy of self-flagellation known as the Copenhagen Climate Conference want to shrink global output of CO2 not because of hard science, but out of envy. 11/28/09 European Trade Rules Killing African Blacks CORE-Uganda's Fiona Kobusingye-Boynes makes an impassioned plea to save malaria-stricken African children from European ideology that will not allow DDT to be used for insect control. 05/04/09 Soviet America? A thought-provoking look at the USSR, 1920 - and finding that it's really what's happening all around us today, by Henry Lamb, chairman of Sovereignty International. 04/07/09 How every "green job" kills 2.2 other jobs.. Stunning study from Spain reveals how deadly the subsidized shift to "low carbon" jobs has been to the nation's economy. If U.S. subsidies to renewable producers achieve the same result -- and President Obama has held Spain up as a model for how to subsidize renewables -- the U.S. could lose 6.6 million to 11 million jobs while it creates three million largely temporary “green jobs," the study predicts. 12/10/08 GREEN GENOCIDE - Three takes on the destroyers of the modern world President-elect Barack Obama proposes economic suicide for US - The UK Guardian points out a few little fatal flaws in Big Green's plans to eradicate human caused everything. 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. |










