Feb 7, 2012
For one time in a row Fed head Ben Bernanke got the story right. No, it wasn t King Dollar. It was taxes.
Testifying before members of the Senate Budget Committee today, Bernanke referred to the scheduled repeal of the Bush tax cuts. He said, If no action is taken by...
Feb 6, 2012
That great phrase was coined by the late Jack Kemp, who believed that growth and opportunity for all is the answer to poverty.
In fact, Kemp believed it was the answer to all things economic. And he was right.
The best anti-poverty program is the one that creates jobs....
Jan 30, 2012
You would think that with one of the weakest economic recoveries on record, President Barack Obama would be desperately searching for ways to promote economic growth. It is, after all, an election year. Most pundit and pollsters agree that it s the economy stupid.
But...
Jan 25, 2012
President Barack Obama's proposal to increase taxes on the rich is designed to come at me, GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney told me this morning.
In his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, Obama proposed a minimum 30 percent tax rate on Americans earning more...
Jan 23, 2012
Let me build on Charles Krauthammer s great Friday column, The GOP s Suicide March. Krauthammer argues that just as President Barack Obama s class-warfare, soak-the-rich mantra started lagging in the polls, some Republicans on the campaign trail started making the case...
Jan 19, 2012
Might a strong Newt Gingrich debate performance tonight trump the ABC Nightline interview with Newt s ex-wife Marianne? Remember, the debate comes before Nightline.
And the roughly five million to six million people who watch the debate will be a lot more than the roughly...
Jan 17, 2012
There s a very troubled company out there called U.S. Government, Inc.
It s teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. And it badly needs to be taken over and turned around. It probably even needs the services of a good private-equity firm, with plenty of experience and a...
Jan 11, 2012
While so much attention has been turned to Newt Gingrich s catastrophically mistaken attack on Mitt Romney s Bain Capital, free-market capitalism, investment, and profits, a potentially much more significant development occurred in the New Hampshire debate Saturday night....