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Agency needs day in court
Washington Post Writers GroupWASHINGTON — There can be unseemly exposure of the mind as well as of the body, as the progressive mind is exposed in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a creature of the labyrinthine Dodd-Frank legislation. Judicial dismantling of the...Tags: Health Care Reform (2009), The Washington Post, Consumers, Christopher Dodd, Judges
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Status quo preserved
Washington Post WritersWASHINGTON — America’s 57th presidential election revealed that a second important national institution is on an unsustainable trajectory. The first, the entitlement state, is endangered by improvident promises to an aging population. It is...Tags: Barack Obama, Government, Lyndon B. Johnson, Bain Capital, LLC, Elections
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Taking America's pulse
Washington Post WritersPRESIDENT: The leading figure in a small group of men of whom — and of whom only — it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for president. — Ambrose Bierce The Devil’s...Tags: Voting, Barack Obama, Government, Elections, Washington, DC
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Too big to maintain?
If in four weeks a president-elect Mitt Romney is seeking a Treasury secretary, he should look here, to Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Candidate Romney can enhance his chance of having this choice to make by embracing a...Tags: The Washington Post, Economy, Business and Finance, Financial Markets, Government, Washington, DC
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The Fed's mission creep
In the 1920s, in the wee small hours of the mornings, employees at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas sang while they worked. One, Jack Culpepper, went into vaudeville, where he teamed up with a dance partner named Ginger. They married and performed as...Tags: The Washington Post, Money and Monetary Policy, Sales, Economy, Business and Finance, Washington, DC
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Presidential 'debates' debatable
Washington Post Writers GroupWASHINGTON — The spectacles we persist in dignifying as presidential "debates" — two-minute regurgitations of rehearsed responses — often subtract from the nation’s understanding. But beginning this Wednesday, these less-than-...Tags: The Washington Post, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Money and Monetary Policy, Barack Obama
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Columnist George Will: From Utah, with Love
SALT LAKE CITY — A specter is haunting the Congressional Black Caucus, the specter of integration. It is discomforting enough that the now 43-member CBC has included a Republican since 2011, when Florida’s Allen West became the first...Tags: Voting, Barack Obama, Lyndon B. Johnson, Walter Mondale, Elections
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Obama is the real radical
Washington Post Writers GroupCHARLOTTE, N.C. — Four years ago, President Barack Obama was America’s Rorschach test upon whom voters could project their disparate yearnings. To govern, however, is to choose, and now his choices have clarified him. He is a conviction...Tags: The Washington Post, Barack Obama, Woodrow Wilson, Lyndon B. Johnson, Washington, DC
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