According to Rasmussen Reports only 30% of Americans currently support a government clean up of the financial system. The reason why? 50% of Americans “say it’s better for the government to let the companies that made financial mistakes go bankrupt.” As a general rule, we agree with this principle. However, …
Politico‘s Ryan Grim says he used to work for the Marijuana Policy Project. He really should lay off the mind altering substances before he attempts to write about financial topics ever again. Grim has an article out today titled “Lawmakers regret deregulating” but the only deregulation Grim cites is “repealing …
Yesterday before the Joint Economic Committee, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke made a clear case as to why federal action is needed: home mortgages and car loans had become harder to get, commercial credit was becoming scarce for many businesses and consumer spending had already declined. Leaders in both parties …
There is no doubt that past government intervention in the market, particularly by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, is largely to blame for the current financial turmoil. And while past government intervention cannot be used to justify further government interference, we also have to ask how much unnecessary pain the …
The current financial turmoil has changed Wall Street as we knew it forever. Seven decades worth of cumbersome, outdated, and harmful regulation will have to be rewritten in order to provide the clear and dependable rules markets need to operate. The long term financial health of the federal government also …
This morning we highlighted just the worst policy proposal liberals in Congress are trying to attach to the financial bailout plan. But Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-CT) draft legislation has some other misguided provisions as well. Heritage’s David John flags those that must be avoided: Provide capital to financial institutions in …
Former Comptroller General of the United States and Fiscal Wake-Up Tour star David Walker outlines how our impending entitlement crisis parallels the current subprime mortgage mess in the Financial Times: … a lack of transparency facilitated the crisis. Banks and other financial institutions created off-the-books entities so that regulators would …
The $700 billion that Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson is requesting from Congress to restore liquidity in the financial markets is a breathtaking sum of money. But it is also important to remember Paulson has already committed $200 billion to recapitalize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The size of their bailout …
