Newsmax RSS FeedTue, 07 May 2013 15:42:21 EDTOn Monday the U.S. Senate passed the Marketplace Fairness Act, which would force online retailers to collect sales taxes for states in which purchasers reside.Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:51:48 EDTOn Wednesday, members of the House Agriculture Committee with strikingly different views on many issues came together to provide much-need regulatory relief from the albatross of Dodd-Frank.Tue, 05 Feb 2013 10:06:15 EDTOn Tuesday of last week, a huge drop in consumer confidence was announced. One day later, the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the U.S. Department of Commerce reported the stunning news the U.S. economy actually contracted by 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012.Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:39:05 EDTWhen President Obama appointed Mary Schapiro — who this week announced her resignation — to head the Securities and Exchange Commission four years ago, I kept an open mind and was even cautiously optimistic.Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:24:28 EDTAs if the “fiscal cliff,” with its prospects of looming tax hikes, were not enough, banks of all sizes — and in turn consumers and businesses who rely on their credit — also face the “Basel cliff.”Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:40:49 EDTIn praising his bailouts of Chrysler and General Motors, President Obama said recently in Toledo, Ohio, “I refused to walk away from those workers. I bet on those workers.”Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:10:31 EDT“For some reason, some Republicans in Congress are still waging an all-out battle to delay, defund, and dismantle these common-sense new rules.” That was, in a recent weekly address, President Obama’s all-or-nothing defense of the 2,600-page Dodd-Frank financial “reform”. Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:32:34 EDTOn Oct. 1 2011, one year ago today, Dodd-Frank’s Durbin Amendment price controls went into effect, causing consumers to lose free checking and be soaked with other bank fees so that the country’s wealthiest retail chains could become even richer. Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:17:27 EDTAs much as the term “Forward” was used at the Democratic National Convention last week, the speeches of Bill Clinton and, to an extent, President Obama, hearkened back to the prosperity of the 1990s.Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:15:02 EDTTo smaller banks and credit unions, Dodd-Frank sends a blunt message. To paraphrase a passage from President Obama’s recent stump speech, the 2,600-page law says to them, “Don’t build that. Let somebody else make it happen.” Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:19:19 EDTLast Friday’s dismal jobs number renewed the call for Congress to find common ground and “do something.” Unfortunately, the “something” that the punditocracy usually calls for can be summed up in three words: spend, spend, and spend.Fri, 25 May 2012 16:37:08 EDTWhen I wrote my blog here last Friday on the day of Facebook’s initial public offering (IPO), I praised the firm’s innovations but injected a note of skepticism as to the gains of ordinary investors. Fri, 18 May 2012 15:11:53 EDTToday, Facebook finally goes public with a market capitalization of $104 billion. Its initial public offering (IPO) is the capstone of its amazing ascent that changed the way the world communicates.Fri, 04 May 2012 12:48:41 EDTThe recent viral video sensation “If I Wanted America to Fail” confirms that the regulatory state is a major focal point for the center-right movement, and indeed much of America. Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:53:13 EDTThose who loved Andrew Breitbart and those who hated him recall his pioneering innovations that have changed political activism — on both sides — forever.Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:50:27 EDTIt s April 2012. You are a conscientious congressional staffer who still takes seriously the need to be a steward of taxpayers money. (Yes, I know for a fact, there are more than a few of these folks around on Capitol Hill.) You are watching closely events surrounding an...Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:25:21 EDTIn his letter to prospective shareholders in the middle of the 201-page Form S-1 that Facebookfiled Wednesday afternoon to launch its much-anticipated initial public offering, company founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that one mission of Facebook is to bring a more...Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:59:35 EDTYesterday morning, President Obama made a recess appointment of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a powerful and largely unaccountable regulatory bureaucracy created by the Dodd-Frank financial reform law rammed through in 2010....Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:59:26 EDTTen years ago this month, Enron Corp. filed for bankruptcy. Today, with all of its dealings with banks, it would probably have been deemed too big to fail. But luckily, this was before Hank Paulson and Tim Geithner occupied the Treasury Department. Enron was allowed to...Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:06:55 EDTAttention Joe and Jane Citizen! Concerned about the fiscal future of your country and your family? Then please put aside for a few minutes the talking heads coverage of the supercommittee breakdown, and get information about a matter much more important to your country and...