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McCain on Romney’s Bain record: ‘Free enterprise system can be cruel’
Former Republican presidential nominee John McCain on Sunday walked back on his 2008 attacks on current GOP hopeful Mitt Romney for his record of killing jobs as the head of Bain Capital. During a 2008 campaign stop in Florida, McCain had blasted Romney for taking over companies and laying off…
Paul Ryan defends ‘the morality of the free enterprise system’
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) suggested on Sunday that anything corporations do is moral as long as they follow the law. Fox News host Chris Wallace asked the House Budget Committee chairman if Republican presidential candidates should be criticizing each other over the way they made their money and handled their…
Obama applauds finance reforms as Senate vote draws near
President Barack Obama turned up the heat Saturday on lawmakers to pass an ambitious Wall Street regulatory overhaul, as the measure headed for a key vote in the Senate. “The reform bill being debated in the Senate will not solve every problem in our financial system: no bill could,” Obama…
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