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The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate hut at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups—Henry Hazlitt

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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

2008 US Mortgage Crisis: The US Federal Reserve and Crony Capitalism as Principal Causes

Stanford University’s John B. Taylor reviewed Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner’s newest book, Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambiti...

Wednesday, October 08, 2008

News from The 1990s Foretold of this Crisis

Debating who had been responsible for this crisis can take lots of academic vernacular to support or debunk the premises. But we don’t ne...

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Fannie And Freddie Bailout Designed To Save The US Dollar Standard System

``Over the past few years, the Agencies were central to the process that brought the emerging world’s savings to the US housing market. An...

F&F Mix Results: Narrowing F&F Spreads But Defaults from F&F Credit Default Swaps

``In traditional finance, borrowers borrow and lenders lend. The only firms exposed to, say, home mortgages, are the banks that issue them. ...

Fannie & Freddie’s Conservatorship’s Possible Implications To Asia

``The US doesn’t just need US government money to support the US housing market: It needs money from foreign governments as well. And no ...

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