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Jan 2014

Another Obama-Democrat rift opening over free-trade fastracking?

Erika Johnsen Jan 25, 2014 2:31 PM

Throw me a bone here, guys.

NYT: Even Europe “seems to be hitting its environmentalist limits”

Erika Johnsen Jan 23, 2014 2:01 PM

Faced with electricity prices at least twice as expensive as those in the United States’ and the subsequently combined crises …

The IMF “has identified the gap between rich and poor” as an important problem. Novel.

Erika Johnsen Jan 19, 2014 6:31 PM

Searching for answers in all the wrong places.

Meet the White House’s next awesome economic pivot: “Promise zones”

Erika Johnsen Jan 09, 2014 1:21 PM

What the what?

European Commission to Britain: Yeah, we’re going to need you to get rid of those wind-farm subsidies

Erika Johnsen Jan 07, 2014 5:21 PM

Awkward.

Dec 2013

Maduro’s party wins Venezuelan elections, immediately announces plans to bring the pain to the business sector

Erika Johnsen Dec 09, 2013 10:31 AM

Winning.

Poetry: Venezuelan capital blacks out while Maduro gives a pre-election socialist address

Erika Johnsen Dec 03, 2013 6:01 PM

Gloriously awkward.

Pope Francis and the media: Missing the forest for a couple of trees

Ed Morrissey Dec 02, 2013 12:01 PM

Subsidiarity, solidarity, and the actual point behind Evangelii Gaudium.

Nov 2013

Venezuela’s Maduro accuses 99 percent of businesses of “price gouging,” vows to punish more “capitalist parasites”

Erika Johnsen Nov 30, 2013 6:31 PM

It’s what Chavez would have wanted, after all.

French Socialists: We should probably reform this convoluted tax code of ours, huh?

Erika Johnsen Nov 26, 2013 5:21 PM

The “sick man of Europe.”

Awesome: Venezuela’s Maduro gets his “emergency decree powers”

Erika Johnsen Nov 20, 2013 8:41 PM

Winning.

Real life: Venezuela’s Maduro orders military occupation… of electronics stores

Erika Johnsen Nov 09, 2013 6:01 PM

“Fair.”

Oct 2013

Natural gas exports: The Obama administration dithers while a global market waits

Erika Johnsen Oct 15, 2013 9:21 PM

Any day now.

Challenge, accepted: Supreme Court to review EPA’s greenhouse gas regulations

Erika Johnsen Oct 15, 2013 1:21 PM

Checks.

EPA actually considering scaling back on RFS’s ethanol blending requirements?

Erika Johnsen Oct 11, 2013 1:21 PM

Woah.

Reality check: The United States has added two times more debt than wealth in the past two years

Erika Johnsen Oct 09, 2013 4:41 PM

$16,969,027,000,000…

Venezuelan president: I’m going to need some special decree powers so I can wage “economic war” against the forces of evil

Erika Johnsen Oct 08, 2013 9:21 PM

Clearly.

China employs more than 2 million people… just to monitor the Internet

Erika Johnsen Oct 05, 2013 5:31 PM

Dayum.

Dear federal government: Do less.

Erika Johnsen Oct 03, 2013 9:21 PM

Really?

Sep 2013

United Nations’ “green climate fund” oddly having trouble attracting donors

Erika Johnsen Sep 26, 2013 8:41 PM

Wealthier is healthier.

Cuccinelli: If McAullife wins, we’ll have to change the state motto from “sic semper tyrannis” to “quid pro quo”

Erika Johnsen Sep 26, 2013 4:01 PM

Heh.

Oof: California is officially raising its minimum wage to $10/hour by 2016

Erika Johnsen Sep 25, 2013 9:31 PM

Smooth move.

Paris cosmetics store forced to close early due to labor laws despite employees lining up to work

Erika Johnsen Sep 24, 2013 9:21 PM

This is why France can’t have nice things.

Glorious socialist paradise stations troops at toilet-paper factory for some reason

Erika Johnsen Sep 23, 2013 9:21 PM

How very peculiar.

Greece back in the middle of European fiscal drama with a third bailout

Erika Johnsen Sep 23, 2013 4:01 PM

Ouch.

Terry McAuliffe not proving to be much of a “details” guy, huh?

Erika Johnsen Sep 19, 2013 3:21 PM

“No details. All bulls–t.”

NYT: The gov’t created a stupid ethanol-credit system, but it’s basically Wall Street’s fault for “exploiting” it

Erika Johnsen Sep 15, 2013 5:01 PM

Typical.

Venezuelan government: Uhm, these rolling blackouts are totally the result of the opposition’s sabotage

Erika Johnsen Sep 04, 2013 9:21 PM

Old and busted.

French Socialists scrupulously avoiding long-term fix for their pension problem

Erika Johnsen Sep 01, 2013 6:31 PM

It was practically just the other day that even France’s Socialist government were reeling at the record-high tax bill they …

Aug 2013

China: Us, a debt problem? What debt problem?

Erika Johnsen Aug 28, 2013 8:11 PM

We’re sure we don’t know what you mean…

Sen. Boxer: Yeah, I’d say a $10/hour minimum wage sounds about right

Erika Johnsen Aug 27, 2013 9:51 PM

“Fairness.”

CNBC: Big miss on durable goods no “statistical fluke”

Ed Morrissey Aug 26, 2013 4:51 PM

Complicating the “taper”?

Obama to Greece: You know, you guys should really try growing your economy

Erika Johnsen Aug 14, 2013 3:21 PM

This guy.

Obama: Hey, we’re not spying on Americans … much

Ed Morrissey Aug 07, 2013 8:41 AM

The Gulf.

Maryland demands lower insurance rates; Aetna says sayonara to the state’s insurance exchange

Erika Johnsen Aug 04, 2013 2:01 PM

Reality is tough.

Never fear, Anthony Weiner: “The rent is too damn high!”-guy is here for you

Erika Johnsen Aug 01, 2013 3:41 PM

“Freaky-ism.”

Jul 2013

Quotes of the day

Allahpundit Jul 24, 2013 10:41 PM

Out of ideas.