Hedge funds that are supposed to do well in any type of market are having a tough go of it lately. As Gregory Zuckerman and Juliet Chung of The Wall Street Journal report: Bridgewater Associates, which built a $150 billion hedge-fund empire with the promise of strong performance even in turbulent markets, is suffering from […]
Archives for June 2013
Obamacare with a Nantucket Price Tag
Secretary of State John Kerry gamed Obamacare while senator for Massachusetts. He considers Nantucket a rural place. What a joke.
Energy Revolution
Texas is leading the way in the gulf coast energy revolution. As Alison Sider, Dan Strumpf and Ben Lefebvre of The Wall Street Journal report: The pipelines, all set to come online by the end of next year, mark a new phase in the U.S. oil boom. Hydraulic fracturing has pushed U.S. oil output to […]
A 1,200 Page Immigration Bill Not Read
The Editors of National Review write that the Senate will not even have a chance to read the 1,200 page immigration bill they are about to vote on. In a final theatrical flourish in the immigration-reform drama, the Senate has scheduled a hasty vote on the so-called amendment offered by Senators John Hoeven and Bob […]
Kill Common Core
Kill Common Core and get the federal government out of education. Heritage Foundation explains to NPR reporter Cory Turner that interest groups and the federal government are pushing common core on the states, even if they can’t mandate adoption. “This is an effort largely driven by national organizations and the federal government,” says Lindsey Burke, […]
The Recovery that Isn’t
Abysmal is the best way to describe this Obama recovery. Hope and change doesn’t create jobs. Where’s the motivation when it’s easier to do nothing and collect a check from the government? Ben Casselman of The Wall Street Journal writes: The recession ended four years ago. But for many job seekers, it hasn’t felt like […]
VIDEO: Think You Know Your Shotgun?
This is knowing your shotgun.
How Do We Strengthen the Middle Class?
The answer is clear to all Americans. We need to generate more good paying jobs in the private sector. Once that is said, the obvious next step is is to make life easier for those Americans who provide such jobs. Pretty simple, is it not? The central political issue for any political candidate should be how to help small […]
Most Of The Farm Bill Was About Food Stamps!
No member of the house should have voted for this spending boondoggle. And yet as Cato Institute’s Chris Edwards outlines many so-called “fiscal conservatives” lined up to support the pork-laden boondoggle. It’s a good thing that the farm bill failed to pass the House, but it is disturbing that about three-quarters of Republicans voted in favor of […]
Texas Gets It
Business creation isn’t easy. It must be nurtured. The same is true after it becomes a viable concern. Businesses go to where they have an edge so they can offer customers lower prices among other things. High taxes and legal fees are the bread and butter for “no mas” business states likes New York. In […]
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