Posted on 20 April 2009. Tags: alternative investments, bank bailout, banking, banks, barack obama, bonds, budget, Bush administration, Cabinet, capitalism, Caterpillar, chairwoman, Citigroup, combines, congress, Crash Proof, credit crunch, credit spread, criminal, crisis, cut federal spending, debt, Deere & Co., deficit, democrat, department head, economic collapse, Economics, espionage, exports, farm equipment, federal, federal reserve, financial crisis, financial industry, financial system, fraud, free trade, freedom, globalization, government, Greed, guarantee, House Intelligence Committee, housing boom, imports, intervention, iron condors, Israel, Jane Harman, liberty, lobbyist, lobbyists, market insurance, market neutral, meltdown, MIT, monitor bailout program, municipal debt, National Security Agency, Neil Barofsky, NSA, obama, option, option strategy, peter schiff, Peter Schiff was right, Politics, power, President Obama, professor, protectionis, Putin, Real Estate, Rob Viglione, Russia, selling insurance, selling options, selling options for income, Simon Johnson, socialism, special investigator general, Spending, state, tariffs, TARP, too big to exist, trade, trading system, treasury bonds, Troubled Asset Relief Program, trucks, U.S. Treasury, unprecedented
Rep. Jane Harman exchanged favors for power-aided Israeli lobbyists accused of espionage, top government investigator says that bank bailouts are open to fraud, Obama tells Cabinet to cut spending by 0.02%, U.S. Treasury estimates it has lost $900 million of taxpayer money from holding $301 billion in Citigroup junk assets, Russian tariffs take toll on U.S. companies, and could the U.S. be headed for a Russian-style economic collapse circa 1998? Continue Reading
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Posted on 12 April 2009. Tags: Alex Kozinski, appropriation, Bill of Rights, blank check, checks and balances, clause, Commerce Clause, common defense, Constitution, constitutional government, controversial, courts, David Ramsay, debts, declare it void, dual sovereignty, duties, electoral retaliation, enumeration of powers, excises, federal government, Federalism, freedom, general welfare, history, impeachment, imposts, James Madison, judiciary, Judiciary branch, legal interpretation, Legislative branch, levy taxes, liberty, limited government, Lincoln, New York, Noah Webster, playing favorites, Politics, pork spending, porkulus, power, professor, protectionism, public funds, public trust, ratifying convention, Robert G. Natelson, Savannah, socialism, Spending Clause, spending programs, Steven Engel, stimulus, supreme court, tax money, taxation, Taxation clause, taxes, Treasury, united states, Virginia
Has the federal government risen above its constitutional right to tax and spend billions of dollars on pork? What argument do we have which puts a seemingly all powerful federal government back in its constitutional place and restores the principle of federalism? Continue Reading
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