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Foster: Obama loves oil! Not!

Nothing more clearly indicates U.S. President Barack Obama’s economic muddledom and ideological stubbornness than the dog’s breakfast of energy policies revealed in Tuesday’s State of the Union address. The good news is that hydrocarbons are back (as long as you … Continue reading

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Foster: Follow the Keystone money, then expose the misinformation

Congressional Republican attempts to force U.S. President Barack Obama’s hand on the Keystone XL pipeline produced the required result on Wednesday, at least from the GOP perspective. The President gave the project the thumbs-down, and Republicans instantly castigated Mr. Obama … Continue reading

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Foster: Another Swiss miss

This has been a bad week for the Swiss national brand. First, there was the radical disconnect between the global regulatory aspirations of Philipp Hildebrand – defenestrated governor of the Swiss National Bank and vice-chairman of the macroprudentially panoptic Financial … Continue reading

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Foster: The banker, the deal, his wife and their cover

The resignation of Swiss National Bank chairman Philipp Hildebrand over his wife Kashya’s currency transactions may be seen as a personal tragedy or a national embarrassment, but it also raises questions about one of the other organizations from which Mr. … Continue reading

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Foster: Saving Kyoto and the euro by Friday

The foundering this week of not one but two experiments in megalomanic government pretension — the Kyoto Protocol and the European superstate — should provide cause for reflection about the limits of government. Instead, what we are seeing is desperate … Continue reading

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Foster: Enbridge seizes the initiative from Keystone

Last week’s U.S. State Department decision to delay the Keystone XL pipeline pending a new route through Nebraska was a clear loss for sponsor TransCanada Corp. It also appeared to be a major victory for environmental NGOs over Alberta’s oil … Continue reading

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Foster: No Cannes do (24)

This is a crisis not just of Greece or the eurozone, but of modern democracy The big news ahead of the G20 summit in Cannes on Thursday was that European leaders had told Greece that if it wanted a referendum … Continue reading

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Foster: Irrational euro-deal exuberance (23)

There is, failing the arrival of the Intergalactic Monetary Fund, no lender of last resort but the taxpayer That optimistic little girl looking for the pony in the pile of manure was back in the markets Thursday, as investors apparently … Continue reading

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Foster: Europe’s systemic irresponsibility (20)

Need for debt ­haircuts related to pensions at 50 for hairdressers The cancellation of a meeting of European finance ministers that was meant to precede the announcement of a final, final, final debt-crisis package on Wednesday confirms policymakers’ utter disarray … Continue reading

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Foster: A thoroughly political body

‘The Delinquent Teenager’  shows IPCC far from objective science Despite the collapse of the Kyoto process and the decline in public concern, professional environmental alarmists and eco-activists — who are now concentrating their venom on stopping the Keystone XL pipeline … Continue reading

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Foster — Jeremy Rifkin: wrong and wronger

The audience for Jeremy Rifkin’s performance Thursday at the Economic Club of Toronto will likely be heavy with Ontario provincial government types. Mr. Rifkin is the archetype of that creature known as the policy entrepreneur. He is a consistent generator … Continue reading

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