The Senate has easily approved Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s Wall Street bailout package, but only after it was buried under a mountain of legislative goodies. The House, which rejected…
At GreenWatch we now have archived an interactive list of the “worst environmental prophecies of catastrophic doom.” It is a list of eleven of the most interesting and pointed cases of environmental activists raising…
October 1, 2008 marks the expiration of the Congressional moratorium on energy production and exploration on the Outer Continental Shelf. This is great news, but it means very little in…
I just got back from a fascinating panel discussion on community organizing. It was called, “Mr. Obama’s Neighborhood,” and was hosted by the Hudson Institute’s Bradley Center for Philanthropy…
While the Senate reportedly prepares to vote on its own version of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s bank bailout package, liberal philanthropist and financial speculator George Soros has come up with…
In recent years the powerhouse bank Goldman Sachs has supplied Treasury secretaries to both Republican and Democratic administrations. A Goldman veteran serves as President Bush's chief of staff, while one…
The Washington Post reports that the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued a clarification on mark-to-market accounting rules that might help ease the current…
On “The G. Gordon Liddy Show” yesterday I called House Financial Services Committee chairman Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) a “big shmegege” for supporting the Community Reinvestment Act, which helped to lay…
After once calling an effort to revise his city’s term limits law “disgusting,” Michael Bloomberg, the liberal mayor of New York City, has decided to gut the law so he…