#Tesla, SpaceX may have ‘died’ if wealth tax existed in 2008

#Tesla, SpaceX may have ‘died’ if wealth tax existed in 2008

“Tesla, SpaceX may have ‘died’ if wealth tax existed in 2008” Elon Musk has slammed the White House’s plan to impose a “billionaires’ tax” on the wealthiest Americans – claiming that his companies likely wouldn’t have survived if the levy had been in place following the 2008 financial crisis. The so-called “Billionaire Minimum Income Tax”…

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#SEC’s Gary Gensler ‘passes’ the buck

#SEC’s Gary Gensler ‘passes’ the buck

“SEC’s Gary Gensler ‘passes’ the buck” It’s bad enough that our political class never lets a good crisis go to waste in pursuing harebrained policies that sound good on paper but usually fail in practice (ObamaCare). It’s another thing to make the crisis — in this case soaring energy prices and rampant inflation — worse….

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#Ukraine brings reality to West and other commentary

#Ukraine brings reality to West and other commentary

“Ukraine brings reality to West and other commentary” Culture critic: Ukraine Brings Reality to West The war in Ukraine “implicitly issues a challenge to the unseriousness, the smallness, of what passes for public life in the 21st-century West,” declares Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill. “As everyday Ukrainians pull together and arm themselves with guns and petrol bombs,…

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#Elizabeth Warren accused of hypocrisy in spat over Justice Department’s Google suit

#Elizabeth Warren accused of hypocrisy in spat over Justice Department’s Google suit

“#Elizabeth Warren accused of hypocrisy in spat over Justice Department’s Google suit” Sen. Elizabeth Warren has accused Google of trying to “bully” a Biden Administration antitrust enforcer into recusing himself from cases involving the tech giant — but some D.C. insiders are grumbling the Massachusetts Democrat has a record of using similar tactics herself. The…

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#Putin’s excellent Ukraine crisis and other commentary

#Putin’s excellent Ukraine crisis and other commentary

“#Putin’s excellent Ukraine crisis and other commentary” Foreign desk: Vlad’s Excellent Ukraine Crisis “Vladimir Putin is having a good crisis in Ukraine,” Walter Russell Mead notes at The Wall Street Journal. “Ukraine is popular issue in Russia,” and the standoff “is making Russia feel great again,” as many are “nostalgic for the old days of…

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#The Fed’s left-face decision on Jerome Powell reign

#The Fed’s left-face decision on Jerome Powell reign

“#The Fed’s left-face decision on Jerome Powell reign” As this column goes to press, the Wall Street C-suite class is giving Jerome Powell slight odds to be reappointed as Federal Reserve chairman. Yes, he is disliked by progressives such as Elizabeth Warren; they have a big say in just about anything the Biden administration does…

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#Ambitious SEC boss Gensler cultivates Sen. Elizabeth Warren

#Ambitious SEC boss Gensler cultivates Sen. Elizabeth Warren

“#Ambitious SEC boss Gensler cultivates Sen. Elizabeth Warren” If Gary Gensler sounds a lot like Elizabeth Warren, it’s not by accident but by design. He needs the powerful progressive senator in his corner to fulfill his ultimate, career-fulfilling goal, which, according to sources, is having his signature on the dollar bill as treasury secretary.  Gensler…

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#The Left’s Bezos-bashing just shows its endless greed

#The Left’s Bezos-bashing just shows its endless greed

“#The Left’s Bezos-bashing just shows its endless greed” Sorry: People who produce huge benefits for mankind (Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Steve Jobs) deserve their billions — and the right to spend it however they wish. If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on Google News too, click on…

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