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Cause and Effect
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| Posted: Wednesday, December 3, 2008 |
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What caused the financial crisis? Simple: the destructive housing policies of the federal government.
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Not Everything Can Be Too Big to Fail
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| Posted: Monday, November 24, 2008 |
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The Treasury secretary is currently endorsing a very bad idea.
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Relief from Mark-to-Market Accounting
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| 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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Worse Than You Think
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| Posted: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 |
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The government's takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is similar to the savings-and-loan collapse of only twenty years ago.
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Systemic Risk and the Financial Crisis
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| Posted: Friday, October 31, 2008 |
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The financial crisis provides no warrant either for a systemic risk regulator or for the supervision of other participants in the financial markets that have not previously been regulated.
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Let's Use Fannie to Clean Up the Mess It Made
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| Posted: Monday, October 27, 2008 |
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The legal authority and funding are already in place.
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Obama Voted "Present" on Mortgage Reform
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| Posted: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 |
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The only banking deregulation in recent years was that of Fannie and Freddie.
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The Last Trillion-Dollar Commitment
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| Posted: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 |
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The government takeover of Fannie and Freddie was necessary because of their massive losses on more than $1 trillion of subprime and Alt-A investments.
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Deregulation Not to Blame for Financial Woes
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| Posted: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 |
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Barack Obama's claim that the financial crisis is due to Republican deregulation depends on ignoring several important facts.
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The $700 Billion Man
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| Posted: Friday, September 26, 2008 |
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What should we make of the proposed government bank bailout?
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