Archive for September, 2014

In Defense of the Ex-Im Bank

In Defense of the Ex-Im Bank
The good news is that it looks like the Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank will be reauthorized for the short term. The bad news is that it is widely misunderstood, to the detriment of small businesses and entrepreneurs.

To complicate things the Ex-Im Bank is a misnomer. It has nothing to do with imports and is not a bank. It provides loan guarantees to private banking institutions on behalf of American exporters. It also provides credit insurance. Everything it does, it does ...

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Made in America Panel Cautions Americans to Redefine “Poor”

Made in America Panel Cautions Americans to Redefine “Poor”

Host Neal Asbury opened his nationally syndicated “Neal Asbury’s Made in America” show on Radio America (now on 48 stations) with some trepidation about the astounding IPO (Initial Public Offering) for China’s Alibaba’s wholesale e-tail site, which carried an initial market capitalization of $250 billion, and processes some 11.3 billion orders a year.

Co-host Dr. Rich Roffman compared it to the initial enthusiasm when Blockbuster first went public during the 1990s, and characterized the Alibaba IPO as the “current investment darling ...

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Made in America Panel Says Americans Should Blame Obama’s Energy Policies for Rising Electricity Costs

Made in America Panel Says Americans Should Blame Obama’s Energy Policies for Rising Electricity Costs

Host Neal Asbury opened his nationally syndicated “Neal Asbury’s Made in America” show on Radio America (now on 48 stations) by recounting a government assessment that electricity prices will rise under the Obama administration’s energy policies that promote higher costs connected with under-performing renewable energy options at the expense of reliable and cheaper forms of energy, such as coal.

Joining Made in America, as a guest, was Chris Warren from the American Energy Alliance, a not-for-profit organization that engages in grassroots ...

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Made in America Panel Wants to See Government Stay Out of the Way of Healthcare Innovators Whose New Products Can Really Reduce Healthcare Cost

Made in America Panel Wants to See Government Stay Out of the Way of Healthcare Innovators Whose New Products Can Really Reduce Healthcare Cost

Host Neal Asbury opened his nationally syndicated “Neal Asbury’s Made in America” show on Radio America (now on 48 stations) with the astonishing and troubling news that some government employees’ salaries are being paid by taxpayers to work on union business.

Joining Made in America as a guest was Luke Rosiak, a Senior Watchdog Reporter for the Washington Examiner and its Data Editor, who revealed that the salaries for some 4,000 employees of the Department of Justice are being paid by ...

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Sacrificing Immigration Reform on the Altar of Cynical Politics

Sacrificing Immigration Reform on the Altar of Cynical Politics
In February 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama said this about immigration: “Number one, it is important that we fix the legal immigration system, because right now we’ve got a backlog that means years for people to apply legally. And what’s worse is we keep on increasing the fees, so that if you’ve got a hard-working immigrant family, they’ve got to hire a lawyer; they’ve got to pay thousands of dollars in fees. They just can’t afford it, and it’s discriminatory ...
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