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The great deficit debate: looking for money in all the wrong places
Contributing ColumnistFor the last two years we’ve heard the same mantra from the GOP and its mouthpiece, FOX News: “We have a spending problem, not a revenue problem.” It’s usually said with solemnity and sometimes a hint of compassion, as if the...Tags: Public Finance, Heritage Foundation, The Wall Street Journal, Defense, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Eliminate taxes on overseas profits
I take issue with liberal columnist Brian Cooney, who remains a believer in spending our way to prosperity despite the failure of President Obama’s massive government stimulus and bailout. Despite this failed attempt, where money spent for each...Tags: Elections, Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations, Washington (U.S. state), Barack Obama
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Patrick: Debt issue a spending and revenue problem
Billionaire businessman Warren Buffet summed up the fuss about raising the debt ceiling in a way that was clear, concise and candid.
“We don’t need to tell the world that anytime people in Congress start throwing a tantrum, we’re not...Tags: Government, Democratic Party, Washington (U.S. state), Republican Party, Mitch McConnell
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A budget engineered for a dysfunctional national family
Contributing ColumnistLast week’s debt ceiling agreement was a striking victory for Republicans, although they almost threw it away under pressure from the Tea Party fringe. They got nearly $3 trillion in spending cuts with no tax increase. How did they extract this from...Tags: Democratic Party, Media Industry, Congressional Budget Office, Republican Party, Barack Obama
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Early Easter leaves Orlando hotels with April hangover
After four months of year-over-year growth, business dipped in April at Orlando-area hotels, likely because of an early Easter this year and the absence of a couple of big conventions in town. Hotels in the Orlando market filled 72.6 percent of their...
Tags: Orange County Convention Center, Hotels and Accommodations, Consumer Confidence, Trips and Vacations, Orlando Hotels
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Why the medical device tax needs to stay
The chief drawback of a law as complex as the Affordable Care Act, the health insurance reform measure passed in 2010, is that it provides self-interested opponents a multitude of places to stick a wedge in and hammer away. But you'd be hard-pressed...Tags: Science and Technology, Dwayne Johnson, Heritage Foundation, Al Franken, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Higher consumer spending will offset sequester cuts, economists say
WASHINGTON -- Consumers will help keep economic growth on track this year, as new projections of their spending indicate it will offset the hit to the recovery from the federal government's automatic budget cuts, a panel of economists said Monday. The...
Tags: Government, Government Debt, Consumers, Politics, Labor Markets
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Unemployment continues to fall as consumer confidence rebounds
A surging stock market and rebounding housing prices are translating into a robust job market in South Florida. South Florida's unemployment continued its decline in April, dropping a notch to 5.6 percent in Broward and 6.8 percent in Palm Beach County,...Tags: Government, Consumer Confidence, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Career and Workplace, Employment
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Caroline Baum: Federal Reserve handicaps race of its own making
Ed Koch, the late mayor of New York City, used to stop residents on the street and ask, "How am I doing?" With next month marking the four-year anniversary of the end of the 2007-2009 recession, the longest and deepest since the Great Depression, it...Tags: Ben Bernanke, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg L.P., Money and Monetary Policy, Real Estate
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Md. sheds 6,200 jobs in April, Labor Department says
Maryland employers slashed 6,200 jobs in April, cutting short a string of gains, the U.S. Department of Labor said Friday, as the state began feeling the pinch of federal budget sequestration and cutbacks in consumer spending. But the government's...Tags: Fort Meade (military base), Adecco SA, Career and Workplace, Employment, Moody's Corporation
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'I know it when I see it'
In the 1964 U.S. Supreme Court case Jacobellis v. Ohio, Justice Potter Stewart wrote a concurring opinion he hoped would establish a legal standard that protected every American's right to free speech yet guarded “community standards” against “hard core...Tags: Government, Humana Incorporated, Science and Technology, Political Corruption, U.S. Supreme Court
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The day ahead in business May 16
Reports: Initial jobless claims for week ended May 11, 7:30 a.m; Consumer price index for April, 7:30 a.m.; Housing starts/building permits for April, 7:30 a.m.; Philadelphia Fed survey for May, 9 a.m.; Mortgage rates for week ended May 16, 9 a.m.;...
Tags: JC Penney Company Inc., Consumer Confidence, Petroleum Industry, Kohl's Illinois, Inc., Singapore Airlines
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May 16, 2013
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