Today’s Bloomberg’s Two-Minute Hate: The Koch Brothers!

    To give you an idea of just how laughably bad this Bloomberg hit piece (short version: the Koch Brothers are icky small-government people who have this big corporation that doesn’t give money to causes that the authors like is a evil lobbying corporation and here’s a list of bad things that they’ve done, including selling stuff to IranIranIranIRANIRANIRAN) was: not only did the notoriously neoconservative* | Read More »

    Jeffrey Immelt and Conflict of Interests

    When the stimulus passed just two short years ago, a lot of special interests piled on to try and grab some of the dough that was being doled out. General Electric was part of that group. From American Spectator: On February 17th of that year, Obama had signed the stimulus bill, which included $24.9 million in grants that would flow directly to GE, with roughly $20 billion | Read More »

    Many States Face a Fiscal Crisis

    Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss Jeffrey Immelt’s new job and the fiscal crisis facing many states. We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen Clouse and Associates. If you’d like to email us, you can do so at coffee[at]newledger.com. We hope you | Read More »

    Jeffrey Immelt to Lead a ‘Jobs Committee’?

    The President of the United States is doing what liberals do best — creating a committee to figure out why his liberal policies aren’t creating jobs. Who is he putting in charge? Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO of GE, also known as Keith Olbermann’s boss. Since Mr. Immelt took over GE, we’ve seen its financial business bailed out by the federal government, its total number of | Read More »