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Schumer and Cantwell’s deceptive advertising on shareholder “rights.”

Schumer and Cantwell’s deceptive advertising on shareholder “rights.”

If deceptive labeling of bills in Congess were punishable by regulatory agencies, Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) would be paying a hefty fine.

Their so-called “shareholder bill of rights,” recently introduced in the Senate, would impose a one-size fits all regime on public companies that would limit choices for shareholders, reduce corporate performance, and allow political agendas of pressure groups to trump the interests of ordinary investors. Most egregiously, the bill would make illegal a key feature of the corporate…

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Barack Obama v. Warren Buffett on the Economy

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LibertyWeek 34: Michelle Minton Conquers the World

LibertyWeek 34: Michelle Minton Conquers the World

Your regular hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist are joined by special guest co-host Michelle Minton for Episode 34 of the LibertyWeek podcast. We begin by finding that Twitter has conquered every aspect of society, the White House is waging war on the economy and New Yorkers are defending themselves against beer taxes. We next investigate the questionable management of the AIG bailout in Scandal Watch and handicap Chicago’s chances for snagging the 2016 summer games in Olympic News.

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Buffett Opposes Card Check, but Don’t Forget Binding Arbitration

Buffett Opposes Card Check, but Don’t Forget Binding Arbitration

Rumors of the so-called Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) being introduced in the current Congress have come and gone — and will come again. Yet the Washington rumor mill being so active on this shows just how big an issue this is. For the unions, it is their number one priority, since they see it as a tool to reverse decades of membership decline. For the business community, it would impose yet another dead-weight cost in the middle of a…

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