As you hopefully already know, Wednesday night President Obama delivered his State of the Union address to a joint session of congress. Many of my peers, however, chose not to watch the event, saying it was boring, phony, and didn’t…
CNN takes us through a 6 minute review of the years top political developments.
This piece in the WaPo is one of several I’ve seen since 2008 in which the head of a major financial institution pairs a mea (sorta) culpa for the financial collapse with some conscientious advice on how to make things…
Recovery.gov the government web site that tracks spending of the $787 billion dollar stimulus bill, launched a new version this week.
The White House is launching version 2.0 of recovery.gov, the web site tasked with tracking stimulus spending. Most of…
This story is a few days old now, but I meant to post it, so I will. From the Washington Post:
“When the credit crisis struck last year, federal regulators pumped tens of billions of dollars into the nation’s leading…
Whether you think it is a decisive argument or not, the inevitability of unintended consequences of government intervention is pretty much the best case there is to be made for limited government.
Here’s a perfect example re: the Obama administration’s…
President Obama has nominated Ben Bernanke to a second term as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Said the President:
“Ben approached a financial system on the verge of collapse with calm and wisdom, with bold action and out-of-the box thinking…
Politic.ology’s favorite New Zealand Free-Market blogger seems to think so. From Critical Thoughts:
FDIC running empty already?
Noticed this at Mich’s blog.
So what will likely happen next? The market will likely selloff hard again, then the US government will…
Editor’s Note: The following post is from our friend Rocko Chen, from his Critical Thoughts Blog. Rocko’s a free market liberatarian, and his conclusion, that global warming is being bandied about to scare the populations of the West (he mentions…
From our friends at the College Politico:
The economy continues to dwindle in these harsh economic times. Job losses have fallen in every month since January and the unemployment rate, 9.4%, is at a twenty-six year low. Based on these…
