Timothy P. Carney is a senior political columnist at the Washington Examiner and a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also the author of "The Big Ripoff" (Wiley, 2006) and "Obamanomics" (Regnery, 2009).
By Timothy P. Carney | 05/30/13 10:25 AM
Few companies are as close with the Obama administration as General Electric. The company’s top lobbyist is tied in tight with the Obama-Baucus nexus. The company’s CEO is Obama’s jobs czar. Wherever Obama has led, GE has followed — on rail, stem-cells, climate, health-care, and so on....
By Timothy P. Carney | 05/29/13 07:45 PM
Mel Watt, President Obama's nominee to oversee government-sponsored mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, is a liberal Democrat fond of big government. He is also longtime politician, intimate with K Street and Wall Street. With his faith in government and coziness with big business,...
By Timothy P. Carney | 05/29/13 09:50 AM
Apple is investing big time in renewable energy, and so the company — whose historical relative aversion to politics has earned it an investigation from the Senate — is now investing more seriously in politics. Apple CEO Tim Cook announced at a tech conference Tuesday that it was...
By Timothy P. Carney | 05/28/13 04:40 PM
The notion of a “shortage” is one that economists are often dubious of. Who’s to determine the appropriate amount of something? When farmers talk of a shortage of farm labor, I think the only way to interpret that is that wages are higher than farmers want to pay. “We’ve got...
By Timothy P. Carney | 05/28/13 03:35 PM
“Bob Dole still goes to the office each day to push a number of causes,” said Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace signing off his interview with the former Majority Leader and GOP Presidential nominee. And he’s correct — Dole is a hard-working 90-year-old, and a great American who...
By Timothy P. Carney | 05/28/13 01:10 PM
Karen Hinton is married to the man who may be the most important aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Hinton is also an executive at a lobbying firm. The New York Post tells the story.
By Timothy P. Carney | 05/24/13 06:30 PM
If you take a group of Democrats who are also unionized government employees, and put them in charge of policing political speech, it doesn't matter how professional and well-intentioned they are. The result will be much like the debacle in the Cincinnati office of the IRS. The IRS's targeting...
By Timothy P. Carney | 05/23/13 02:40 PM
Congressional Quarterly reports: the American Sugar Alliance, a trade group for the sugar industry, is taking no chances. In a statement, the group said it delivered replicas of 1940s, World War II-era sugar rationing coupons to Senate offices. If you’ve been following sugar policy,...
By Timothy P. Carney | 05/23/13 02:25 PM
I’m not one for telling banks whom they can and cannot lend to — except for when those loans are guaranteed by U.S. taxpayers. So, when the chief economist of the National Association of Realtors suggests it is time to “dial down the credit stringency” — including for loans guaranteed...
By Timothy P. Carney | 05/23/13 01:15 PM
You may recall the run-up to the 2010 elections, when President Obama turned to a strange conspiracy theory for his primary campaign point: that foreign companies were bankrolling the GOP through the Chamber of Commerce. It appears they’re even taking secret foreign money to influence our...
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