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Encouraging the Freedom to Fail
American business is the most robust, the most efficient, and the most effective in providing returns to shareholders on invested capital. We take capital from all points on the globe and turn it into returns that are often multiples of what they initially invested. No other country is as effective at generating wealth as the United States. We are so effective because of our commitment to capitalism and free markets. Part and parcel of that commitment is a belief in freedom. One of those freedoms has to be the freedom to fail. For if failure is not a consequence of bad decision making by private enterprise, we will surely fail in the long term in generating wealth. Life without risk, in business, is not worth investing in.
Joe the Plumber… why Joe matters…
Joe Wurzelbacher, simply known to most of popular America as “Joe the Plumber,” ignited a firestorm by asking Sen. Obama on the campaign trail a simple question, why should I give the government more taxes?
Can Congress Bailout the US financial System? Should it?
(Washington, D.C. ; Right Commentary): To the American Public, the current financial crisis has many villains but none upon whom clearly to pin the blame. Taxpayers are angry at the notion of having to bail out banks, headed by millionaires, whom they believe cheated them out of values in their homes, and in some cases, [...]
Reserve Money Market Fund Collapses as Lehman default spreads through the market’s balance sheets.
The “Reserve Primary Fund”, just saw its shares fall below $1 a share. For all intensive purposes - this means that the money market fund has collapsed. This is the first, and perhaps most cataclysmic implosion following the wake of Lehman Brother’s collapse Monday morning.
Gov. Palin “knocks it out of the park” with her convention speech…
Text of the speech… it was amazingly delivered and was hard hitting:
Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored to be considered for the nomination for Vice President of the United States…
I accept the call to help our nominee for president to serve and defend America.
I accept the challenge of a tough fight in [...]
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