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What to expect from the Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings this week

with Richard A. Epsteinvia Examiner
Monday, July 13, 2009

The Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA) sent out an email last week highlighting the points of interest for this week’s confirmation hearings for Sonia Sotomayor’s appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court...

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Impatience builds over slow-moving stimulus

with Edward Paul Lazearvia San Francisco Chronicle
Sunday, July 12, 2009

The record-breaking $787 billion fiscal stimulus package that Congress passed in February is not breaking records on the job front...

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Legislation on Clean Energy

by Gary S. Beckervia Becker-Posner Blog
Sunday, July 12, 2009

In late June the House of Representatives approved The American Clean Energy and Security Act...

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The War Against the Producers

by Victor Davis Hansonvia Works and Days
Saturday, July 11, 2009

A “stimulus” of nearly a trillion dollars was proposed, without which we were told, unemployment would skyrocket and credit would tighten further...

Analysis and Commentary

No He Hasn't

by Peter M. Robinsonvia Forbes
Friday, July 10, 2009

Just under six months after becoming president, and just under two months before the deadline he set for the passage of health care legislation, Barack Obama is finished...

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Two Authorities on Fed Warn Against Expanding Role

with John B. Taylorvia New York Times
Friday, July 10, 2009

Two economists with longstanding ties to the Federal Reserve warned Congress on Thursday that it would be a mistake to make the Fed a super-regulator in charge of reining in “systemic risk” and financial institutions considered “too big to fail,” The New York Times’s Edmund L. Andrews reported...

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Two Authorities on Fed Advise Congress Against Expanding Its Power

with John B. Taylorvia New York Times
Thursday, July 9, 2009

Two economists with longstanding ties to the Federal Reserve warned Congress on Thursday that it would be a mistake to make the Fed a super-regulator in charge of reining in “systemic risk” and financial institutions considered “too big to fail.”...

Analysis and Commentary

Do We Need a Second Stimulus?

by Edward Paul Lazearvia Wall Street Journal
Thursday, July 9, 2009

In "Brewster's Millions," a comedy starring Richard Pryor, a man is told he can keep $300 million if he manages to spend $30 million in one month...

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Kohn: Monetary Policy Audits Would Hurt Fed Debate

with John B. Taylorvia Dow Jones Newswires
Thursday, July 9, 2009

Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Donald Kohn said Thursday that while the Fed doesn't object to government audits of its emergency facilities, extending those audits to monetary policy could "cast a chill" on the central bank's deliberations...

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Congress Gives Fed’s Regulatory Restructuring Role A Once-Over

with John B. Taylorvia Securities Industry News (NY)
Thursday, July 9, 2009

Congress took on the Obama Administration’s regulatory restructuring proposals today, with a hearing called to examine the expanded role envisioned for the Federal Reserve Board in the Obama plan...

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