More Financial Regulations, More Financial Failures By John Tamny Back in 2000 and 2001, the first stage of the Internet era ran aground in an ugly way. From Webvan to theGlobe.com to eToys, investors saw their stakes in these once high-flyers reduced to nothing. What’s important is that the dying companies were allowed to fail. [...]
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Is Rigorous, Global Regulation of Financial Markets What We Need? …Hardly.
Posted in Economy, Politics, tagged Banks, Barack Obama, Economic collapse, Federal Reserve, Financial Regulation, G20, Regulation, US economy on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Obama’s Plan for Afghanistan: We Are Rich Enough to Have BOTH Guns and Butter!
Posted in Domestic Affairs, Economy, Foreign Affairs, Politics, tagged Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Federal Deficit, Federal Reserve, George W Bush, Guns and Butter, Health Care, High Interest Rates, Inflation, National Debt, National Security, Obama Afghanistan Surge, Obama Guns and Butter, Obamaflation, Taxes, US economy, War on Terror on March 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
ATLANTA— Barack Obama announced his new Afghanistan strategy yesterday in a press conference. A summary of Mr. Obama’s plan, according to the USA Today, is provided at the bottom of this missive. While some of the specifics of this proposal make me hesitant (particularly the piece that involves increased economic aide to Pakistan), I am [...]
INFLATION WATCH: Bernanke Firing Up the Printing Presses to Save America!
Posted in Economy, tagged Barack Obama, Ben Bernanke, Economic collapse, Federal Reserve, Forbes, Inflation, Long Term Interest Rates, Obamaflation, Quantitative Easing, US economy, US Treasuries on March 19, 2009 | 6 Comments »
ATLANTA – Ben Bernanke has stepped in to do what he has been promising now for months, to monetize U.S. debt by purchasing $300 billion in longer-term Treasuries. In layman’s terms, this is significant because the Federal Reserve is basically creating dollars out of thin air and handing them to the United States Treasury [...]
Why Barack Obama’s Economic Policies Will Likely Fail
Posted in Economy, Politics, tagged Alan Greenspan, Barack Obama, Economic collapse, Federal Reserve, Inflation, Interest Rates, Jim Rodgers, Libertarian, Long Term Capital Management, LTCM, Obamaflation, Stimulus Plan, US economy on February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
INFLATION WATCH: Wholesale inflation takes biggest jump in 6 months!
Posted in Economy, Politics, tagged Abolish Federal reserve, Barack Obama, Ben Bernanke, Bush Administration, Economic collapse, Federal Reserve, George W Bush, Gold Standard, Inflation, Obama Administration, Obamaflation, Ron Paul, US economy, Wholesale Prices on February 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
[Ben Bernanke] also dismissed concerns that expanding the Fed’s balance sheet would stoke inflation, pointing out that with global economic activity so weak and commodity prices low, there was little risk of unacceptably high inflation in the near term.” —At the National Press Club, February 18, 2009. From the Great Depression, to the stagflation [...]
Unemployment to Reach 10%!?! How Obama, Inflation Could DESTROY the Economy…
Posted in Economy, Politics, tagged Austrian Economic Theory, Austrian Economics, Barack Obama, Ben Bernanke, Deflation, Economic Recovery, Federal Deficit, Federal Reserve, Great Depression, Inflation, Japan, Milton Friedman, Monetary Base, Obama Administration, Obama stimulus plan, Obamaflation, Quantitative Easing, Ron Paul, US Debt, US economy, US Recession, Weekly Address on January 3, 2009 | 12 Comments »
ATLANTA— Barack Obama announced on his radio address today that without action, the U.S. economy could lose hundreds of thousands more jobs- pushing unemployment above 10%.
THE DOW IS DROPPING AND THE US ECONOMY IS COLLAPSING!! …The SPEECH That NEEDS to Happen!!!
Posted in Economy, tagged AIG, Bear Market, Ben Bernanke, Dow Jones, Economic collapse, Fannie Mae, Federal Reserve, Freddie Mac, George Bush, Hank Paulson, Henry Paulson, Interest Rates, US economy, US Treasury on October 10, 2008 | 11 Comments »
ATLANTA – The Dow fell 678 points yesterday and is set to tumble further today. The Dow closed under 9,000 yesterday for the first time in FIVE YEARS. These events are shocking and are evidence that
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