They say that there is (at least) a shred of truth to the best humor. This clip, featuring Fred Armisen’s great impression of President Obama on Saturday Night Live, quickly goes from funny to scary when you realize that Obama and the Democrats really do want to do this. Sphere: Related Content

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Byron York of the DC Examiner newspaper is reporting that Barney Frank and the House Financial Services Committee have slyly approved a measure that would not only control the pay of the top executives of firms that receive a capital investment from the US government, but would give Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner unprecendented and extraordinary control [...]

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Reuters is reporting that the stock market fell after Wall Street was unimpressed by President Obama’s first address to a joint session of Congress. “President Obama didn’t have anything substantive to say last night,” said Michael James, senior trader at regional investment bank Wedbush Morgan in Los Angeles. The Associated Press, meanwhile, “fact-checked” the president’s [...]

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Harvard economist Greg Mankiw, author of mainstay textbooks such as Principles of Economics, has compiled a list of things upon which economists do agree.  The information was taken from various polls and was published in at least one of his textbooks and on his website. Economists agree that… A ceiling on rents reduces the quantity [...]

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Who says we don’t know how to have fun here at AudacityWatch? If you have a little time to kill, play The Bailout Game and see if you’d do a better job than those elected to mess it up on our behalf.  Are you good enough to make it on the Leader Board?  Please note [...]

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