Sovereign debt in sights of ESG ratingsIPE.com (registration)“But there is no correlation between high national debt and bad ratings, and low national debt and good ratings – it simply depends what the money was spent on.” Nevertheless, with the ...
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Sebelius and the death spiralHuman Eventsby John Hayward On Tuesday, Congressman Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) of the House Ways & Means Committee had the chance to ask Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius about President Obama's infam...
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Thomas Sowell: Pettiness and MudSt. Augustine RecordIn a world with a record-breaking national debt and Iran moving toward creating nuclear weapons, they bickered over earmarks and condoms. I am against earmarks, but earmarks don't rank among the f...
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Carl Leubsdorf: No perfect conservative in this fieldDallas Morning News (subscription)Romney retaliated by accusing Santorum of voting five times to raise the national debt ceiling, to fund Planned Parenthood and to expand the Department of Education....
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ScotsmanIain Gray: Beware the black art of post-truth politicsScotsmanPresumably this garners stump speech applause, but the fact is that defence spending has risen under Obama. Post-truth politics is already here. Think about the efforts of the UK coa...
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Mischief by Obama needs to endArizona RepublicIf that were true, we would all be ecstatic with his failed policies over the past three years: a wasteful, failed $800 billion stimulus program, a costly, confusing, poorly constructed health program, a ra...
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Newt Gingrich rallies supporters in CovingtonRockdale CitizenGingrich wasted no time in attacking President Barack Obama on his foreign and energy policies in a speech that earned him lots of cheers and a few outbursts of "Give him the boot Newt!&...
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Gingrich rallies supporters in CovingtonRockdale CitizenGingrich wasted no time in attacking President Barack Obama on his foreign and energy policies in a speech that earned him lots of cheers and a few outbursts of "Give him the boot Newt!"...
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Haven't they already paid enough?KETKPresident Obama claims this is in the interest of reducing our $5 trillion national debt by trimming the federal government's bloated budget. But, the fly in the ointment is his proposed health benefits cuts...
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Media Matters for AmericaConservative Media Promote Bogus Chart On National DebtMedia Matters for AmericaFox News and right-wing blogs have promoted a chart that purports to show the "alarming" fact that national debt per person is higher in ...
| Upon Inauguration: | $10,626,877,048,913 |
| As of Dec 5, 2013: | $17,228,699,889,182 |
| In 4.9 yrs Increased: | $6,601,822,840,269 |
| George Bush (8yrs): | $4,899,100,310,609 |
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