He was the senior national affairs writer for The Wall Street Journal from 1993 to 2000 and has published the books A Hope in the Unseen, The Price of Loyalty, The One Percent Doctrine, The Way of the World and Confidence Men.

In 2006 he discussed The One Percent Doctrine on the Colbert Report, and in 2008 he discussed The Way of the World on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and again appeared on the show when his 2011 book, Confidence Men, was published.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington and the Education of a President was published on September 20, 2011 by HarperCollins.

This Constructive Vote of No Confidence is intended to avoid the situation of the Weimar Republic in which the executive did not have enough support in the legislature to govern effectively, but the legislature was too divided to name a successor.

Still, Genscher was one of the FDP's driving forces when, in 1982, the party switched sides from its coalition with the SPD to support the CDU / CSU in their Constructive Vote of No Confidence to have Helmut Schmidt replaced with Helmut Kohl as Chancellor.

Confidence in Banks and Businesses was low and a trade deficit existed.

In 1742 when the House of Commons was prepared to determine the validity of an allegedly rigged by-election in Chippenham, Walpole and others agreed to treat the issue as a Motion of No Confidence.

Heath, who had himself applied to be the Conservative candidate for the by-election, accused the government in an October Union Debate of " turning all four cheeks " to Hitler, and was elected as President of the Oxford Union in November 1938, sponsored by Balliol, after winning the Presidential Debate that " This House has No Confidence in the National Government as presently constituted ".

On 28 March 1979, the House of Commons passed a Motion of No Confidence by one vote, 311 – 310, which forced Callaghan to call a general election that was held on 3 May.

Created by screenwriter David S. Ward, the story was inspired by real-life con games perpetrated by the brothers Fred and Charley Gondorff and documented by David Maurer in his book The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man.

Trudeau was talked into rescinding his resignation after the government of Joe Clark was defeated by a Motion of No Confidence, and returned to contest and win the 1980 federal election.

The Consumer Confidence Index was started in 1967 and is benchmarked to 1985 = 100.

The sample aims at capturing the major contributors to the personal consumption component of the GDP. The BluFin Consumer Confidence Index was developed by a team of financial economists and statisticians led

The BluFin Consumer Confidence Index ( CCI ) was 39. 9 in March, 2012 compared with its lowest score of 35. 8 in December last year.

Confidence in the General was gone, and evident despondency prevailed throughout.

Confidence firing was the predecessor of SAC's operational test program.

Confidence was everywhere throughout America.

We your Humble Petitioners Living at a great Distance from ye Center of the Towne Some of us nine or ten Miles and Consequently at a very great disadvantage in joining with them all Publick Town affairs, being encouraged Partly by our Living in that Part of ye Town that was Laid out for what was called ye upper Parish and Partly by ye Kind Reception our Request met with which we made to ye Town for a dismission but more particularly by our Confidence in your Honors desire to Promote ye Happiness of every Part of ye State Humbly Pray that Honors would take our Case into your Serious Consideration and grant that we together with all those Live in sd Upper Part may be Erected and Incorporated into a body Politick and Corporate to have Continuance in ye Name of Northfield with all such Powers and Authorities Privileges Immunities and Franchises with other Parishes or Towns in this State in General hold Enjoy with your Petitions as in duty bound Shall forever pray .”

Many of the former members of Engine Company No. 1 reorganized under the name of Thirty-Eights No. 1 In May 1875, Engine Co. No. 2 was organized under the name Confidence Engine Company.

In November 2003, following the Conservative Party's Vote of No Confidence in its leader Iain Duncan Smith, he was elected unopposed to the position of Conservative Party leader.

The Nile Rodgers & Bernard Edwards produced single " Why ", from the soundtrack to the 1982 film Soup for One, was a top-ten hit single in the U. K. but stalled at # 74 in the U. S. She had another minor U. K. success with the single " Kissing With Confidence ", a song off the 1983 album Dancing For Mental Health by Will Powers ( a pseudonym for photographer Lynn Goldsmith ).

A civic group known as the Congressional Affairs League of Louisiana was formed to express a vote of " No Confidence " in Brooks.

In 2008, from the time the king nominated José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero for a second term as president immediately following the 2008 general election, almost a month passed before Zapatero was able to present his Investiture Speech before the Congress and stand for a Vote of Confidence.

If no overall majority was obtained on the first Vote of the Confidence, then the same nominee and program is resubmitted for a second vote within forty-eight hours.

Confidence in the government was shaken, since the offensive seemed to reveal that even with massive American support, the government could not protect its citizens.

Confidence was high enough that detailed plans were made for alerting emergency authorities if there were signs an earthquake was imminent.

" Hegemony " which Gratside eventually cited as being based on the old English folksong ' Lemady ' - led to more melodic songs such as " Confidence ", which in turn hinted at the direction the band would take in the 1980s.

* Original Confidence, now Oricon Inc, supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan

In February 1982, Schmidt won a Motion of Confidence, however on 17 September 1982, the coalition broke apart, with the four FDP ministers leaving his cabinet.

The U. S. Consumer Confidence Index ( CCI ) is an indicator designed to measure consumer confidence, which is defined as the degree of optimism on the state of the economy that consumers are expressing through their activities of savings and spending.

In the glossary on its website, The Conference Board defines the Consumer Confidence Survey as " a monthly report detailing consumer attitudes and buying intentions, with data available by age, income and region ".

The preliminary results from the Consumer Confidence Survey are released on the last Tuesday of each month at 10am EST.

In July 1979, in response to a national energy crisis, President Carter delivered his " Crisis of Confidence " speech urging Americans to reduce their use of energy to help lessen American dependence on foreign oil supplies.

* Confidence value: A value an organization places on an IDS based on past performance and analysis to help determine its ability to effectively identify an attack.

* Dáil debate on the Motion of No Confidence in the Government 31 October 1990

He continued to do a number of sessions during this period, and in 1983 he co-produced and played on Jim Capaldi's top 40 hit " That's Love " and co-wrote the Will Powers top 20 hit " Kissing with Confidence ".

Confidence is is an unincorporated community in Putnam County West Virginia located on WV 34.

In 1999, Pettigrew wrote Pour une politique de la confiance ( English translation: The New Politics of Confidence ), a book on globalization and the art of governing.

In 1979, he made a visit to Washington DC days before the defeat of the Vote of Confidence in 1979 to help persuade the United States Senate that Margaret Thatcher if Prime Minister would not lift sanctions on Southern Rhodesia nor would recognise the government of Bishop Abel Muzorewa.

Clark refused and the Social Credit caucus abstained in a vote on a Motion of No Confidence, causing the Conservative government to fall.

* Native Americans in South Dakota: An Erosion of Confidence in the Justice System, South Dakota Advisory Commission to U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, 2000

The former Hudson's Bay Company post, Fort Confidence is located on the Dease River which feeds into Dease Arm at the northeast corner.