Showing posts with label recession. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recession. Show all posts
Thursday, October 20, 2011

TGIF: Destroying Value

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In case anyone missed it, here's a link to last week's TGIF: "Destroying Value."
Saturday, September 17, 2011

Op-Ed: "Stimulus II Won't Work, Either"

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President Obama won’t use the “stimulus” label to describe his nearly half-trillion-dollar jobs bill, but that refusal can’t hide the fact t...
Saturday, August 13, 2011

Op-Ed: Politicians in a Panic

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You can almost see the panic on their faces. The politicians, central bankers, and court economists seem to be thrashing around like bad swi...
Friday, December 04, 2009

TGIF: Snow Job Summit

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What are the odds that yesterday’s White House jobs summit will lead to the creation of any real jobs? The summit was based on the magic the...
Sunday, April 19, 2009

Government Spending Is No Cure for Recession

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Mario Rizzo debunks the claim that government spending is as good economically as private spending here . Definitely worth reading.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009

What Is to Be Done?

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From FEE on Vimeo . Western New England College, March 2009
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Friday, April 03, 2009

The G(rasping)-20

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We expected little of sense to come out of the G-20 summit, and it met our expectations with flying colors. The rest of TGIF is here .
Monday, March 30, 2009

Appearance on Arkansas Public TV

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I appeared on AETN's Unconventional Wisdom , hosted by David Sanders, on March 27, 2009. The topic of discussion was the banking crisis...
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Sunday, March 01, 2009

Obama's Uninformed Optimism

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President Obama is optimistic that “We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before.” Th...
Friday, February 27, 2009

All About Greed

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It comes down to greed. That’s what the economic turmoil is all about for many people. Too many of us were greedy, and now everyone is payin...
Friday, February 20, 2009

Mr. Obama, What About Tomorrow?

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The Obama administration’s $275 billion bailout for mortgage lenders and troubled borrowers once again shows that “tomorrow-be-damned” think...
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Less than Nothing

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The story is told that Ludwig von Mises was once asked, "Do you mean to say that the government should have done nothing during the Gre...
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

The Perverse Genius of Politics

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Barack Obama held another town meeting today, this one in Fort Myers, Fla. People in the audience stood up and directly told the President ...
Saturday, January 24, 2009

Bottom Line

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[T]here is no way for government macroeconomic policy to correct an incorrect perception of how [savings/consumption] plans have changed. T...

Boon or Doggle?

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Even if government spending in theory could “stimulate the economy” in a genuine, sustainable way, it would not follow that politicians and...
Saturday, January 17, 2009

Stimulating Consumption Won't Help the Economy

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Ask yourself: can you consume your way to prosperity? Of course not. So how can a society do so? Greater consumption is the effect not the c...
Friday, January 09, 2009

Inflation as Income Distribution

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The Federal Reserve has been pumping hundreds of billions of newly created dollars into “the economy.” Much of that money has been sent to W...
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