Posts Tagged ‘Bailouts’
Liberty Reads for February 12, 2010
Stimulus Hypocrisy and the Tea Partiers Personal Bottle Delivery Would Create Jobs... Did They Expect to be Bailed Out? Disinformation on Guantanamo Recidivism Will Government Borrowing End the Downturn? Trouble at the Fed Identification Labels Corruption in Government? Shocking!
The Top 8 Reasons for Big Government in the Past Decade
Here are the top eight moments of government expansion from the past decade, as decided by me. Obviously, this is my opinion and these are in no order of importance. These are simply the top eight events that led to continued growth of government. You may be wondering why I didn't do a list of ten, as seems customary with these end of year [...]
The Ever Expanding Power of Government
The year 2009 was the year of Government Growth. As was the year 2008, 2007 and so on back through history. The Wall Street Journal has a great write-up today on how the bailouts blew the size of government up even further. Check it out: In 2008 and 2009, Washington strove to save the economy. In 2010, Americans will get a clearer picture of how [...]
Daily Liberty Reads
States' Rights and the Left Bailout Bonds? Czar Obama Sick of Paying Taxes? The Economic Liberty Lecture Series: Bruce Fein from The Future of Freedom Foundation on Vimeo.
Deferring Risk and Taking Names
By Justin Williams Deferring risk is attempting to take a risky action that may bring a big benefit and putting the costs upon other. Those who may read this site are probably thinking about our current government bailouts, but I would like to look deeper into this problem. In particular, regulations that defers costs. One example of this is [...]
The Benefits of Failure by Peter T. Leeson
From the Washington Times In a market economy, business deaths are like death itself - an unfortunate but inevitable fact of life. However, recent government bailouts have tried to stop the inevitable by intervening in the market, at least temporarily saving failed firms from the economic grim reaper. Before putting the next failed business [...]
No More Auto Bailouts by Richard Cohen
The article of the day comes from The Washington Post: When I was around 12, I was a paperboy for the now-defunct Long Island Press. One Thursday, when the paper was heavy with shopping inserts, a storm hit, and my papers and I wound up in a puddle. My customers would not pay for a paper not delivered, and the Press insisted on billing [...]
‘The Road to Serfdom’ Revisited
From the Washington Times: There is blame on both sides of the political aisle for our current economic mess. But the siren call of socializing failing sectors of the economy - whether in banking, housing, health care or in Detroit - leads to a wrong and dangerous course that undermines the renewing and self-correcting nature of market [...]
