The company that owns burger chains Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s is fearful over what the new health care laws will mean for its bottom line.  How much could the new mandates add to the operating expenses of the company?  Why are there huge disparities in cost estimates?  How is it impacting other businesses?  And what […]

 

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In recent days, the Federal Reserve, the Central Bank of Europe and the state banks of several economic powers have acted in concert to bring more liquidity to European markets and at least stave off fiscal calamity on the other side of the Atlantic.  So what exactly did we accomplish?  Did it do any long-term […]

 

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Greg Corombos of Radio America and Jim Geraghty of National Review like how well RNC Chairman Reince Priebus sums up the failed Obama record.  They also wonder why any Republican presidential candidates would subject themselves to a debate featuring Donald Trump.  And we try to make sense of the end of the Herman Cain campaign.

 

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