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<title><![CDATA[Keith Hennessey - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/18667.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Keith Hennessey]]></description><category domain="18667">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Kill Export Subsidies. Kill the Export-Import Bank]]></title>
							<link>http://keithhennessey.com/2014/07/01/kill-ex-im/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Hennessey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Imagine the Chinese government decides to help the people of Kenya. To do this the Chinese government buys 5,000 wheeled loaders and excavators from Liugong Machinery and gives them for free to the Kenyan government, Kenyan construction firms, and groups of Kenyan citizens who want to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Opposing the President's FHFA Nomination]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/02/opposing_the_presidents_fhfa_nomination_118216.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Hennessey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Today President Obama announced his intent to nominate Rep. Mel Watt (D-NC) to head the Federal Housing Finance Authority (FHFA), the regulatory agency that regulates Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
In the mid 2000s Fannie, Freddie, and their hordes of lobbyists were able to delay GSE reform...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[George W. Bush Is Smarter than You]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/25/george_w_bush_is_smarter_than_you_118125.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Hennessey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The new George W. Bush Presidential Center is being dedicated this week. This seems like a good time to bust a longstanding myth about our former President, my former boss.
I teach a class at Stanford Business School titled &ldquo;Financial Crises in the U.S. and Europe.&rdquo; During...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jay Carney's Nonsense on the Shrinking Economy]]></title>
							<link>http://keithhennessey.com/2013/01/30/carney-response/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Hennessey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nope. Job growth began in March 2010 and was strong for March, April, and May. We then lost net jobs for four months. We have had continuous job growth since October 2010. That is two and a quarter years, which is not "almost three." (Source: BLS)If you start measuring in March 2010, job...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How GOP Should Wage Debt-Ceiling Fight]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324081704578236042135383394.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Hennessey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The debt limit must soon be increased, and President Obama insists that Congress give him the ability to borrow without any accompanying budget reforms or spending cuts. He argues that only a long-term, "clean" debt-limit bill is responsible fiscal policy, and that anyone who disagrees...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time to Call the President's Bluff]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323353204578128743895217834.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Hennessey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Flush with the adrenaline rush of his election victory, President Obama insists that Congress must now agree not only to raise taxes on the "rich," but also to adopt his previously ignored full budget. The president demands a $1.6 trillion tax increase over the next decade. He maintains...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The President Is Bluffing]]></title>
							<link>http://keithhennessey.com/2012/11/27/the-president-is-bluffing/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Hennessey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I think the President is bluffing on his veto threat.Conventional wisdom: To achieve his desired fiscal policy outcome (big tax rate increases on the rich), the President is willing to risk tax increases on all income tax filers.  He is also willing to risk the political blame for middle...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Washington Post's Hatchet Job on Paul Ryan]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/10/01/the_washington_posts_hatchet_job_on_paul_ryan_115626.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Hennessey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Today&rsquo;s Washington Post contains an election-season hatchet job on Paul Ryan by reporter Lori Montgomery, &ldquo;Amid debt crisis, Paul Ryan sat on the sidelines.&rdquo; I would expect a story like this on the Newsweek or Huffington Postsites, but the Post purports to be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GDP and Tax Levels]]></title>
							<link>http://keithhennessey.com/2012/08/28/tax-levels-cheat-sheet/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Hennessey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here is your tax levels cheat sheet.See how nicely that works?  18-19-20-21There is a danger that measuring tax levels as shares of GDP will lead to casually concluding that "only one or two percentage points difference"]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Strategy to Undo ObamaCare]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304211804577500573035021342.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Hennessey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Now that the Supreme Court has ruled ObamaCare's individual mandate constitutional, the direction of American health policy is in the hands of voters. So how do we get from here to "repeal and replace"?Step one is electing Mitt Romney as president, along with Republican House and Senate...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[So Just Who Will Pay the ObamaCare Uninsured Tax?]]></title>
							<link>http://keithhennessey.com/2012/06/28/uninsured-tax/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Hennessey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Now that the Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, who will pay the tax for not having health insurance?CBO answered this in April 2010. They projected that in 2016, when the mandate is in effect and the tax is fully phased in, there will still be 21...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Obama Cut ObamaCare?]]></title>
							<link>http://keithhennessey.com/2011/07/11/the-presidents-trillion-dollar-sacred-cow/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Hennessey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The President repeats that both parties must abandon their sacred  cows in budget negotiations. Republicans, he argues, will have to agree  to tax increases as part of a deficit reduction package. Republicans are  being characterized as intransigent and extreme for refusing to do...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Strategy for Fiscal Conservatives]]></title>
							<link>http://keithhennessey.com/2011/03/15/impatient-fiscal-conservatives/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Hennessey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Several conservative House and Senate Members, dissatisfied both with  the spending cuts enacted so far and with repeated short-term  appropriations negotiations, are threatening to oppose another  Continuing Resolution.  I think that&rsquo;s a mistake.Conservatives are expressing two...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[January 2013: How to Repeal ObamaCare]]></title>
							<link>http://keithhennessey.com/2011/02/02/how-to-repeal-obamacare/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Hennessey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Senate Minority Leader McConnell will offer an amendment to repeal  the health care laws.  Senate Democratic leaders and the White House are  taking a &ldquo;Move it along, nothing to see here&rdquo; approach.  They correctly  point out that, even if Senator McConnell holds all 47...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Economic Growth: Politicians Don't Create It]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/253392/thus-does-economy-grow-keith-hennessey</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Hennessey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The American people did not give power to congressional Republicans; they took it away from congressional Democrats. Republicans now have an opportunity to prove that they deserve majority status &mdash; that they can operate not just as an opposition party, but as responsible leaders...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Other Side of the White House White Board]]></title>
							<link>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04y35I-r3Xw&amp;feature=youtu.be</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Hennessey</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Decade of Spiraling Deficits]]></title>
							<link>http://keithhennessey.com/2010/07/12/spiraling-deficits/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Hennessey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last Friday while speaking at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas  about the economy, President  Obama said:And these were all the consequence of a decade of  misguided economic policies &mdash; a decade of stagnant wages, a decade of  declining incomes, a decade of spiraling deficits.I...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No New Promises, Please]]></title>
							<link>http://keithhennessey.com/2010/03/19/no-new-promises/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Hennessey</author>
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                        This comment is addressed to those fiscally conservative Members of the House of Representatives thinking of voting for pending health care legislation.America is on an unsustainable fiscal path.  If we do...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lack of Clarity Threatens Economic Recovery]]></title>
							<link>http://www.aolnews.com/opinion/article/opinion-economic-recovery-threatened-by-lack-of-clarity-from-washington/19340072</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Hennessey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Neil Hennessy                                        4 days agoFollowing are highlights from President Obama's State of the Union address and excerpts from the speech that the White House had released earlier today. - We all hated the bank bailout...It was as...17 days ago19 days...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Incorrect Conventional Wisdom]]></title>
							<link>http://keithhennessey.com/2009/09/04/incorrect-cw/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Hennessey</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Understanding the Upcoming Deficit Numbers]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/08/19/understanding_the_upcoming_deficit_numbers_97951.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Keith Hennessey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Mid-Session Review is a budget document released  by the Administration each summer.  It updates the Administration&rsquo;s economic and  budget forecasts.  It shows the budgetary effects of any laws enacted since the  President&rsquo;s budget was released, as well as any new...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[More Health Care Mistakes]]></title>
							<link>http://keithhennessey.com/2009/07/24/health-care-stumbling/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dem Plan Would Tax the Uninsured]]></title>
							<link>http://keithhennessey.com/2009/07/14/house-taxes-the-uninsured/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Understanding the Kennedy Bill]]></title>
							<link>http://keithhennessey.com/2009/06/08/kennedy-health-bill/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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