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Bailouts: Where Will They End? ( Finance, Banking & Monetary Policy )(0)
“There’s no logical end to it,” Cato Senior Fellow Gerald P. O’Driscoll Jr. said to Neil Cavuto on Fox Business. He’s talking about the incredible expanding bailouts. It started with Bear Stearns in March and then homebuil…
Full Story»Members of Congress Who Voted for the Financial Crisis ( Finance, Banking & Monetary Policy )
In late 2000, with the budgeting and spending process in collapse, Congress hurriedly passed a mammoth spending bill called the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2001. It contained a provision preempting state regulation of financial derivatives under …
False Choices ( Finance, Banking & Monetary Policy )
NPR reports this morning that the FBI is trying to find out whether the cause of the financial crisis was “simply greed, or whether laws were broken.”
Perhaps both institutions are just not attuned to the problem of misguided laws and bad …
Alan Reynolds’ Critique of Obama and McCain Tax Plans ( Finance, Banking & Monetary Policy )
Peter Ferrara writes that, “Obama’s tax increases will not produce nearly enough revenue to finance all his lavish spending proposals, as shown by a brilliant new paper from Alan Reynolds of the Cato Institute.” Brilliant or not, it’s serious p…
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