Editorials: Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate

It’s Time to End Fannie and Freddie

Steve Stanek
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November 19, 2012
With the news that there are signs of improvement in the housing market come plans to alter Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, government-sponsored mortgage behemoths that have been under government conse

Avert pension crisis

Matthew Glans
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November 13, 2012
Your editorial touches all the important points on the state pension crisis Massachusetts faces (“Close pension loophole,” Oct. 28).

Where Republicans and Conservatives Went Wrong

Peter Ferrara
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November 08, 2012
The American people lost literally trillions in the financial crisis, in home values, in stock values, and in lost jobs and wages. Obama had a narrative as to what caused the financial crisis.

Obama’s Real Unemployment Rate Is 14.7%, And A Recession’s On The Way

Peter Ferrara
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October 11, 2012
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported last Friday that 114,000 new jobs were created last month, according to its Establishment Survey of business payrolls that has been emphasized by the Obam

Time to Investigate the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Peter Ferrara
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October 10, 2012
Who needs the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), when you have Rush Limbaugh?

Time to Investigate the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Peter Ferrara
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October 10, 2012
Who needs the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), when you have Rush Limbaugh?

Perpetuating Falsehoods

Peter Ferrara
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September 26, 2012
All the Republicans are offering, President Obama tells us over and over, are the same old, failed policies that got us into this mess in the first place.

Rick Ungar Is Wrong: Obama Is The Biggest Spender In World History

Peter Ferrara
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September 20, 2012
On May 24, 2012, Rick Ungar told the readers at Forbes.com that President Barack Obama “is the smallest government spender since Eisenhower.”  “[O]ur president has actually been tighter with a

If This Is Recovery, Who Needs Recession?

Steve Stanek
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September 14, 2012
President Barack Obama and fellow Democrats meeting in Charlotte for their national convention danced around the answer to the question, "Are you better off than you were four years ago?"

As He Re-Creates The Grapes Of Wrath, Obama Is Out Of Ideas

Peter Ferrara
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September 13, 2012
President Obama started his Democratic Convention nomination acceptance speech with one overriding truth: “But when all is said and done – when you pick up that ballot to vote – you will face the c