Monday, January 5, 2009

Posts Tagged with 'bailout'

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Governors ask Uncle Sam for $1 trillion

Governors of five states urged the federal government to provide $1 trillion in aid to the country's 50 states to help pay for education, welfare and infrastructure, as states struggle with steep budget deficits amid a deepening recession.

Saturday, January 3, 2009
in categories: News

Fair Weather Friends of the Market

It’s hardly a news flash that many people who are widely regarded as lions of the pro-market side have gone over to the dark side in recent months. I am not going to name any names; if you are one of the guilty parties, you know who you are; and ...

Saturday, January 3, 2009
in categories: Commentary

Bail Out Capitalism, Not The Big Three

Capitalism is what needs a bailout. Though we often don't appreciate it, capitalism is what made this country great. It allows for the fit to succeed by allowing the unfit to fail. Let's bail capitalism out by letting the Big Three face their fates and not allowing them to become ...

Friday, January 2, 2009
in categories: Commentary
U.S.S. National Debt

U.S.S. National Debt

Monday, December 29, 2008
in categories: Cartoons

The End of the US Piano Industry

In the end you have to ask, is it really worth trillions in subsidies, vast tariffs, impositions all around, just to keep what you declare to be an essential industry alive? Well, eventually, as we have learned in the case of pianos, this is not essential. Things come and things ...

Monday, December 29, 2008
in categories: Commentary

Fed Refuses to Disclose Recipients of $2 Trillion in Bailout

The Federal Reserve refused a request by Bloomberg News to disclose the recipients of more than $2 trillion of emergency loans from U.S. taxpayers and the assets the central bank is accepting as collateral. Bloomberg filed suit Nov. 7 under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act requesting details about the ...

Friday, December 12, 2008
in categories: News

The Big Three Should Stand on Their Own Feet

Why should politicians decide who gets those resources? It's not as though congressmen using government force are better than the decentralized voluntary market at spotting the most promising investments. Far from it. They will make their decisions on the basis of political considerations, such as who gave them contributions or ...

Monday, December 1, 2008
in categories: Commentary

The Health Care Bailout of 2018

When Obama's proposed national system inevitably collapses under the weight of market inefficiency and bureaucratic overhead, this will merely pave the way to fully socialized single-payer health care. Health care spending now comprises one-sixth of the U.S. economy. Forcing taxpayers to pay for everyone's medical expenses would make the $700 ...

Monday, December 1, 2008
in categories: Commentary

Stop Covering Up And Kill The CRA

The Community Reinvestment Act is to blame for the financial crisis, but it so powerfully serves Democrats' interests that they'll do anything to protect it — including revising history. The CRA should be abolished, along with the government-sponsored enterprises that fueled the secondary market for subprimes.

Monday, December 1, 2008
in categories: Commentary
For what we are about to receive...

For what we are about to receive…

Wednesday, November 26, 2008
in categories: Cartoons

Fed Pledges Top $7.4 Trillion to Ease Frozen Credit

The unprecedented pledge of funds includes $2.8 trillion already tapped by financial institutions in the biggest response to an economic emergency since the New Deal of the 1930s, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The commitment dwarfs the only plan approved by lawmakers, the Treasury Department’s $700 billion Troubled Asset ...

Monday, November 24, 2008
in categories: News

The Austrians Were Right

A country cannot forever depend on a central bank to keep the economy afloat and the currency functionable through constant acceleration of money supply growth. Eventually the laws of economics will overrule the politicians, the bureaucrats and the central bankers. The system will fail to respond unless the excess debt ...

Saturday, November 22, 2008
in categories: Essays, Featured

Government “Fixes” Slow Recovery

Why would a bank revalue its dubious assets to 50 cents on the dollar when Paulson might have paid 90 cents? Why would a firm renegotiate with its creditors if the Treasury might offer a better deal? "Changing the rules in the middle of the game [has] thrown the market ...

Thursday, November 20, 2008
in categories: Commentary, Featured

Atlas Blinked

In the end, what fiscal conservatives wanted didn't turn out to matter much. As the Wall Street vapors scrambled every aspect of the 2008 presidential campaign and of George W. Bush's final days in office, no one was as angry as D.C.'s dwindling number of libertarians.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008
in categories: News

Inhofe: Cancel the ‘blank check’

In response to concerns expressed by some that allowing even one of the big automakers to fail would be too much of an economic hit for the nation, Inhofe said reality must be accepted. "If we keep on nursing a broken system, then we can't expect to have a different ...

Monday, November 17, 2008
in categories: News