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  • July 2008

    • Hard-Core Supply-Sider: I'm Voting for the Democrat

      newser  |  New York Daily News  |  Jul 17, 08 7:45 PM CDT

      Hard-Core Supply-Sider: I'm Voting for the Democrat

      Being a Reagan, Gingrich and Dole soldier won’t stop former Chamber of Commerce honcho Larry Hunter from voting for Barack Obama this fall, he writes in the New York Daily News . It doesn’t matter that he wholly disagrees with the Dem on every point of domestic policy; the chance to close the book on “unjustified war and unconstitutional abridgment of individual rights” is worth the price of “unreconstructed, dyed-in-the-wool, big-government” liberalism. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • Iraq war  • Ronald Reagan  • Newt Gingrich  • Bob Dole  • civil liberties  • free markets

    • US Smacked by the Invisible Hand

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Jul 16, 08 2:12 PM CDT

      US Smacked by the Invisible Hand

      Are we losing confidence in market mechanisms? Years of unfettered free markets contributed to the current gloomy economic situation, and even the market-championing White House has lurched into government regulation of the financial world, the Los Angeles Times reports. With housing prices falling and oil prices rising, “the message that Americans are getting is that something went wrong with the markets and you got hurt," said one economist. More »

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      oil price  • housing market  • economy  • regulation  • oil prices  • bank regulation  • speculators  • free markets

    • Fannie/Freddie Troubles Signal Sea Change in Gov't Role

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jul 14, 08 6:54 AM CDT

      Fannie/Freddie Troubles Signal Sea Change in Gov't Role

      The teetering of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has underscored a major shift in US finance, writes Peter S. Goodman in the New York Times —once simply another guarantor, the government has effectively become the only lender in town "for millions of Americans engaged in the largest transactions of their lives." As commercial banks flee the market and credit dries up, Fannie and Freddie are now buying two-thirds of new mortgages. More »

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      subprime mortgages  • credit crisis  • economy  • regulation  • Alan Greenspan  • free markets  • government backing  • loan

  • May 2008

    • Stamp Price to Hit 42 Cents on Monday

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  May 10, 08 2:17 PM CDT

      Stamp Price to Hit 42 Cents on Monday

      There’s a run on the post office today as Americans snap up first class stamps before they cost a penny more on Monday, the Los Angeles Times reports. If the 42-cent price seems insignificant, just think of Netflix, which sends and receives nearly 2 million parcels a day, and pays both ways. More »

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      mail  • US Postal Service  • free markets  • stamps  • price increases

  • February 2008

    • Mexican Prez Predicts Friendlier US

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Feb 8, 08 3:03 AM CST

      Mexican Prez Predicts Friendlier US

      Mexican President Felipe Calderon expects the next US administration to bring a “broader and more comprehensive view” to immigration, providing immigrants a path to legalization, he told the Los Angeles Times . For Calderon, Super Tuesday was heartening. “The most radical and anti-immigrant candidates have been left behind,” he said. They’ve been “put in their place by their own electorate.” More »

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      Mexico  • Super Tuesday  • immigration reform  • Felipe Calderon  • NAFTA  • free markets

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