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Fiscal Stimulus and Medicaid
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| By Alan D. Viard |
| Posted: Friday, November 14, 2008 |
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Alan D. Viard argues that monetary policy and automatic fiscal stabilizers provide the best response to the current downturn.
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Congress's Role and the Financial Crisis
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| By Harvey Golub |
| Posted: Thursday, November 13, 2008 |
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If we raise trade barriers, subsidize Detroit, and enable union bullying, we are in for a long recession.
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A Plan to Rebuild the Housing Market
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| By Allan H. Meltzer |
| Posted: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 |
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The best way to solve the housing market crisis is to increase demand for unsold houses.
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Threat of European Currency Weakness
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| Letter to the Editor |
| By Desmond Lachman |
| Posted: Thursday, November 6, 2008 |
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Wolfgang Münchau seems to be wide of the mark in asserting that the present global financial crisis will lead to the early expansion of the eurozone.
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Relief from Mark-to-Market Accounting
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| By Peter J. Wallison |
| Posted: Thursday, November 6, 2008 |
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Enormous losses could have been avoided if the SEC and the FASB had recognized that mark-to-market accounting should not be used when there is no active market.
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"Panic of 2008" Is Better Than the Alternative
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| By Kevin A. Hassett |
| Posted: Monday, November 3, 2008 |
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It is an open question whether the history books will call this "the Panic of 2008."
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Europe Catches Pneumonia
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| By Desmond Lachman |
| Posted: Monday, November 3, 2008 |
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Plunging global equity prices and frozen global credit markets are leading Europe into the start of its worst economic recession in the postwar period.
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Long-Term Debt
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| Letter to the Editor |
| By Alex J. Pollock |
| Posted: Monday, November 3, 2008 |
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David Hume correctly predicted 250 years ago that the government would infallibly abuse the privilege of incurring debt.
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More Panic
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| By John H. Makin |
| Posted: Friday, October 31, 2008 |
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The accelerating adverse feedback loop must be broken before further wealth destruction and more intense economic contraction usher in a global depression as devastating as the one in the 1930s.
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The Cascading Financial Crisis
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| AEI Newsletter |
| Posted: Friday, October 31, 2008 |
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AEI scholars have provided ideas to understand the financial crisis and have proposed what steps need to be taken to protect our financial system.
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