by Jane Richey | Mar 5, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
MoveOn.org is pressing Obama to replace Ed DeMarco, the man President Bush appointed to oversee Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which hold a majority of U.S. homeowners’ mortgages. Liberals complain that DeMarco “refused to allow underwater homeowners to...
by Jane Richey | Mar 5, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
More than three years into the gas-drilling boom that’s produced thousands of new wells, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the state of Pennsylvania are tussling over regulation of the Marcellus Shale, the vast underground rock formation that holds...
by Jane Richey | Mar 5, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Freshman Rep. Jeff Denham (R-Calif.) has spent his first term trying to shrink the size of government — literally. As chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management, he was behind...
by Jane Richey | Mar 5, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
For several hundred years, a consensus developed in Western nations that economic growth – human progress – is a good thing. But now economic growth is under attack. Economic growth has meant more jobs, higher incomes, more wealth and all the good things that become...
by Jane Richey | Mar 5, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
President Barack Obama last month put forward a plan to cut the corporate tax rate while also closing many loopholes and ending some tax breaks. His plan included proposals to eliminate tax subsidies for oil and gas companies and the carried interest tax break for...
by Jane Richey | Mar 5, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan said his agency wants to encourage more principal write-downs to keep people in their homes, even when those loans are backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. “There is increasing data available, we...
