Posts Tagged ‘Wall Street Journal’

Murdoch, Gang of Six, etc.


(1) Laffer’s Latest Curve-ball: Subscriber Kris W. alerted us that the dumb op-ed Arthur Laffer co-wrote for the WSJ a while back, which John Miller critiques in his July/August Up Against the Wall Street Journal column, is posted all over the web on anti-union websites and elsewhere. In connection with the NLRB’s recent decision against ...Read more.

Dodd-Frank revisited


A headline in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal had me wondering whether their proofreader had missed an extra comma: Wall Street, Banks Press to Shape Dodd-Frank Rules The article reports recently disclosed figures on financial industry lobbying. Since the Dodd-Frank law left so much for regulators to spell out, the numbers are not surprising: Wall Street ...Read more.

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