Boehner Will Fail & Dems Will Pounce
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 10th, 2010 5:31 am by HL
Boehner Will Fail & Dems Will Pounce
Markos Moulitsas, CS Monitor
The 2010 elections have come and gone, and Democrats found out what happens when they neglect their base and fail to deliver jobs for the American people.First things first, the exit polls tell us what this election was not. It was not an embrace of the Republican Party. As counterintuitive as it sounds, the voter opinion of the Republican Party (42 percent favorable) was less favorable than that of the Democratic Party (43 percent favorable). Yet 23 percent of those who viewed the GOP unfavorably still voted for them anyway.
A Rebirth of the American Revolution?
Charles Kadlec, Forbes
Does the Republican landslide signal a rebirth of the American Revolution?Or is it evidence of a volatile, impatient, if not somewhat irrational electorate?The first possibility is the most intriguing–and far-reaching. A rebirth of the American Revolution would signal a turn away from the statism of the progressive movement and an embrace of individual liberty as the cornerstone of American society. That would imply a shift in economic policies that could usher in an extended period of prosperity and above-average gains for equity markets.
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Ayesha Rascoe, Scientific American
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The World Is Revolted By Bernanke’s QE
Larry Kudlow, RealClearMarkets
The great Bernanke QE2 debate continues to heat up. In the run-up to the G-20 meetings, China, Russia, Germany, and others are all coming out against the Federal Reserve's quantitative-easing agenda. They don't want hot-money excess dollars to flow into their higher-yielding currencies.The assault against Bernanke's easy money has reached such fever that President Obama felt it necessary to defend the $600 billion in new-money printing in a news conference in India.Meanwhile, World Bank president Robert Zoellick has actually called for putting gold back into global money, in…
