Articles by Charles Ortel
Sated by pronounced monthly gains in stock market indexes during August, American investors and others worldwide whom regulators should try to protect, instead stand vulnerable now to life-changing downward adjustments in the value of their financial holdings.
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August 31, 2014
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Above all, whatever replaces Obamacare must recognize and contend with structural obstacles facing Americans.
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August 26, 2014
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What happened on Sept. 11, 2001, could return this year on the unlucky 13th anniversary of the last terrorist attack. Evildoers who twist Islamic thinking into acts of terror already have announced intent to do America in.
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August 24, 2014
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New York-In America, the cradle of capitalism, we need to have a sovereign wealth fund. Capitalized with at least $1 trillion in the beginning, our fund should be the largest, most forward-looking and most successful one in the world.
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August 21, 2014
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A flat tax of 12.5 percent on personal and corporate incomes, and a flat assessment of 8.5 percent on these incomes to fund social welfare obligations will turbo-charge America’s economy.
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August 19, 2014
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Forget what most experts are saying about the jobs picture — if you work in America in the private sector, you will earn less during your career than previous generations, you will have fewer benefits, and you will spend long periods unemployed and trying to reinvent yourself.
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August 17, 2014
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The market for U.S. government debt securities is among the largest and most liquid in the world; yet, disclosures are woefully inadequate.
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August 14, 2014
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Rather than learning about looming challenges watching television while on vacation, our president should use his phone, his best financial minds and his pen to act decisively before the next phase in the debt crisis hits.
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August 12, 2014
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If you like legends, perhaps you already follow Baron Rothschild and search for bargains across the sorely challenged African continent as blood literally runs through too many streets.
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August 10, 2014
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The simple key to making our dollar strong again is reversing interventionist policies led by the Federal Reserve System that have artificially pushed down benchmark interest rates below official estimates for consumer price inflation.
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August 7, 2014
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Until recently, Americans have been content to ignore important facts about the state of our government and our economy.
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August 5, 2014
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Following the carnage that spread last week in financial markets, the world remains awash in valuation bubbles, manufactured by three machines.
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August 3, 2014
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This week, guests will interact with Federal Reserve Chair Janet L. Yellen and colleagues inside a benign bubble that no outsider can prick -- a scripted symposium, manufactured for the select few in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
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July 27, 2014
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On Tuesday, tech giant Microsoft will explain how many jobs a cash-rich, uber-profitable enterprise will savage, staying ahead of cut-throat competition in the global marketplace.
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July 20, 2014
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Cutting to the front of a line, while defying school lunch dictates promulgated by the first lady, President Obama let his inner bear loose last week. Our President slurped down Texas barbecue, scant miles away from the latest humanitarian crisis his administration manufactures, choosing to avert his own eyes though he had spent your money to get close enough to our southern border.
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July 13, 2014
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The parades are over and barbecue residue's all mopped up following America's birthday weekend. Yet at a moment when we should vividly remember why our Founders sacrificed so much to secure freedom, the Obama administration continues force-feeding its twisted vision for this country.
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July 6, 2014
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In 1974, as America was losing Vietnam and descending into economic chaos, Richard Milhous Nixon did one great thing — he resigned rather than subject the nation to the living nightmare of the impeachment pending in the House of Representatives, followed by a trial in the Senate.
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June 29, 2014
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Once rich beyond measure, Argentina now flirts with default and catastrophe yet again.
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June 22, 2014
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It is a good thing for Team Obama that "lemon laws" do not apply to campaign assertions made in 2012 — radical Islamists are rising across oil-bearing Middle Eastern hot spots, while General Motors and the American economy stumble in reverse.
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June 15, 2014
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Overwhelmed by revelations on Taliban prisoners exchanged for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, while reeling from consequences of foreign-policy failures everywhere, Americans are missing a near and present danger that will bite each of us hard, deep inside our borders.
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June 8, 2014
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