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Bailout Bill Dangerous, Inflationary, Unnecessary, and Unconstitutional
The $700 billion financial bailout bill being pushed by Bush and Congressional leaders is attracting broad opposition. Not only does it rip off taxpayers…
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Socialized Health Care Feels Like it is … Socialized!
Want to nationalize American health care? Just compare what it’s like to be treated in America and in Britain. Writes F. Brinley Bruton: A…
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Bailout Threatens Economy, Shreds Constitution, Rips Off Taxpayers
The stock market sank as the Bush Administration capitulated to liberal demands that its proposed $700 billion bailout of the financial system be expanded to add more…
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Mark-to-Markets for Dummies
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Paulson bailout would worsen contagion-spreading accounting rules
My colleague Hans Bader is correct that most of the aims of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's $700 billion bailout -- stopping the "contagion" of…
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$700 Billion for Disastrous Financial System Bailout
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Carney on AIG’s big government ways
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My Heart Bleeds
From today’s Greenwire: NEW YORK — The crisis roiling Wall Street is threatening to choke financing for green energy projects. Venture capitalists and private equity…
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Trillion Dollar Bailout Will Lead to Future Bubbles
Why did the mortgage bubble occur? One reason was probably that financial institutions engaged in irresponsible lending suspected they were too "big to fail," and that the government would bail them out if their…
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The ‘Naked’ Truth — Short sellers are unsung financial heroes
At the peak of the real estate boom, there was one group of individuals who said the bubble was about to pop. They pointed to…
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Eurocrats Push European Consolidation
Nothing horrifies the New Class of bureaucrats, intellectuals, politicians, and activists than an aroused public dedicated to defeating their plans. The Irish vote against the…
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Financial Regulators Not the Answer
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Are There No Workhouses?
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More on the Energy Bill
I have a post up about the terrible energy bill currently before Congress on The Hill’s Congress Blog. The teaser: The Energy Bill currently…
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Lehman Bros: The Environmentalist Connection
If you go to the web site of the Alliance for Climate Protection, the group that is sponsoring the $300 million “We Can Solve It”…
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LibertyWeek 8: Cheese for Dogs
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College Official Ignorantly Claims Pacific Northwest Is Racist
Is it worth it to spend $49,385 a year to send your kid to Connecticut College? The answer is no, judging from a wacky,…
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Blame Canada (arts funding)
In any list of programs that could be easily cut without much disruption -- except to a small rent-seeking elite -- is arts funding. It…
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Clinton Pressure to Promote Affordable Housing Led to Mortgage Meltdown
The current mortgage crisis came about in large part because of Clinton-era government pressure on lenders to make risky loans in order to “make…
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Lehman bankruptcy: In capitalism, failure is not a dirty word
My reaction to Lehman Brothers' declaring of Chapter 11 bankruptcy and the refusal of Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and others to take extraordinary Bear…
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Toronto buys into crap on garbage
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Defenders of Big Government Spawned Mortgage Crisis
The Heritage Foundation today discusses the bankruptcy of the great Wall Street investment bank, Lehman Brothers, and explains how defenders of big government caused the mortgage crisis. …
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NFIP Needs Renewal. . .But
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Uproar over Palin Fannie Mae comment is really the media’s ‘gaffe’
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No Gas in North Carolina Thanks to Anti-Gouging Laws
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Washington Post Blames Private Sector for Government Failures
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Divinity School Liberals Are Insufferable
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Miller Time in Mexico…
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Those Who Learn Nothing From History…
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