ACCF American Council for Capital Formation

Bailouts are all the rage, home prices keep dropping, consumer credit is getting tighter and the dollar looks weaker than a one-legged stool. To read the daily headlines it appears our nation's economy has a cold.

As President-elect Obama tries to move quickly to rescue our economy, here are four policy suggestions — two do's and two don'ts — that follow the Hippocratic oath to "first, do no harm..."

Margo Thorning assesses Obama's energy and environment Cabinet picks and explains how she believes the chairmanship shift in the House Energy and Commerce Committee will affect the push for cap-and-trade legislation.

"Of the 26 countries with a death tax surveyed in a 2005 report by the American Council for Capital Formation, the average tax rate was 24 percent, compared with the United States' current 45 percent."