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WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney’s tax returns tell the tale: Yes, he’s rich — really rich. (more)

The voters of South Carolina succumbed on Saturday to the considerable charms that former Speaker Newt Gingrich holds for conservatives. As a conservative myself, I too had succumbed to those charms not too long ago — before we learned that Freddie Mac had made Gingrich the world’s highest-paid “historian”; before Gingrich unveiled his bizarre ideas for bringing recalcitrant judges into line; and, most importantly, before he blithely threw capitalism under the bus in his vengeful rage against Mitt Romney. These and other things eventually brought me to my senses about Gingrich. If the GOP is to have any hope of defeating President Obama, Republicans who are getting swept up in the second coming of Newt-mania will also have to come to their senses. (more)

Mitt Romney has spent more than 20 years in private enterprise, making thousands of business decisions affecting hundreds of companies that led to more than 100,000 new jobs and billions of dollars for employees and investors. So you can see why the left despises him. (more)

SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Mitt Romney called out Newt Gingrich by name at a campaign stop on Wednesday, saying he is “disappointed” with the recent attacks on his career at Bain Capital. (more)

Expect Mitt Romney’s work at Bain Capital to be a hot topic at tonight’s debate in South Carolina when the dwindling Republican presidential field yet again takes the debate stage. (more)

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — A group supporting Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich says it will remove errors from a film it made about Mitt Romney‘s business experience — if Romney helps them figure out what is inaccurate. (more)

There’s a very troubled company out there called U.S. Government, Inc. It’s teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. And it badly needs to be taken over and turned around. It probably even needs the services of a good private equity firm, with plenty of experience and a reasonably good track record in downsizing, modernizing, shrinking staff and making substantial changes in management. Yes, layoffs will be a necessary part of the restructuring. (more)

You expect Democrats to accuse former businessman Mitt Romney of “putting profits over people — making a buck or a few million of them no matter what it took or who it hurt,” as Democratic National Committee spokesman Brad Woodhouse did in releasing a new Web video. (more)

ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) — Attacked as a corporate raider, Mitt Romney defended his record in a new television ad Friday that accuses Republican presidential rivals who criticized his time at the helm of a private equity firm of “embarrassing themselves by taking the Obama line.” (more)

WASHINGTON — US Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue expressed disappointment with the attacks on Mitt Romney by other Republican presidential candidates for his time at Bain Capital. (more)

Ben Smith, formerly a reporter at Politico where he was known for being first with his scoops, may have blown one. (more)

Although Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has been in the news of late for attacking former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for his role at Bain Capital, it seems that Gingrich also had a paid role at a major private equity firm. (more)

There is a film about a ruthless, wealthy man who just wanted to be loved. The man bought up everything that caught his eye, but it was not enough. All he really yearned for was his childhood sled. (more)

A 28-minute Michael Moore-style attack ad ripping Mitt Romney’s business record will be released Wednesday in South Carolina by a pro-Newt Gingrich super PAC. (more)

PETERBOROUGH, N.H. — Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman told The Daily Caller that he believes attacking Mitt Romney for laying off workers as head of Bain Capital is fair game. (more)

One day before the all-important Iowa caucuses, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney continues refusing to clarify his position on free trade with China. (more)

Yahoo! Inc., the Internet company exploring strategic options, rose as much as 4.8 percent on the prospect of a bid from a group led by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (more)

By the green-hued yardsticks of Wall Street, the 1990s buyout of an Illinois medical company by Mitt Romney’s private equity firm was a spectacular success. (more)

Protesters affiliated with the “Occupy” movement held a demonstration Friday outside the offices of Bain Capital, the Boston-based private equity firm once run by former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. (more)

1.) FCIC dissenters defend bailing out Wall Street — Two reports will come out of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission today. The one written by the panel’s liberal majority will blame lax regulation and the banking industry for the collapse of the housing industry. The other, written by commissioners Bill Thomas, a former Republican congressman from California, Keith Hennessey, former chairman of the White House National Economic Council under President George W. Bush, and Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former director of the Congressional Budget Office, spreads the blame more broadly among “investors, creditors, regulators, homebuyers, and politicians,” all of whom must take “personal responsibility.” The dissenters also defended bailing out Wall Street: “For a policymaker, the calculus is simple: if you bail out AIG and you’re wrong, you will have wasted taxpayer money and provoked public outrage,” the paper reads. “If you don’t bail out AIG and you’re wrong, the global financial system collapses. It should be easy to see why policymakers favored action–there was a chance of being wrong either way, and the costs of being wrong without action were far greater than the costs of being wrong with action.” Thank goodness we didn’t destabilize the global financial system, which might have led to really scary stuff, like high unemployment. (more)