by Jane Richey | Apr 10, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
In his report, Charles Blahous revisits the Republican claim that the administration “double counted” Medicare savings when scoring the budgetary impact of the law. He argues that practice hides the real cost of the measure, even though it conforms with...
by Jane Richey | Apr 10, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Think fueling up your car at $4 a gallon is rough? How would you feel about paying more than $6.50? Add on top of that massive job losses and a drastic drop in U.S. economic productivity, and you’ll get the picture of what life in America would be like if oil stopped...
by Jane Richey | Apr 9, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The U.S. natural gas market is bursting at the seams. So much natural gas is being produced that soon there may be nowhere left to put the country’s swelling surplus. After years of explosive growth, natural gas producers are retrenching. The underground salt...
by Jane Richey | Apr 9, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Last week, “an unelected group of people” over at the Environmental Protection Agency revised our national energy policy, approving a new gasoline blend with up to 15% ethanol, known as E15, which may be available in pumps this summer. Currently, most...
by Jane Richey | Apr 9, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is looking to overhaul the mortgage servicing industry, arguing that the problem-plagued sector is unaccountable and opaque. The CFPB announced Monday that it was mulling rules to reform that industry, which has been...
by Jane Richey | Apr 9, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
The Obama administration has all but abandoned its push to require federal contractors to disclose their political donations. A year ago, the White House composed a draft executive order that would have forced potential government contractors to reveal their political...
