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Reform, not Rescue… Buy in, not Bail Out.
This is a restructuring, not a rescue. It’s a buy in, not a bailout. Congress and the White House need to realize that this effort’s main goal is the stabilization of the financial markets and the recapitalization of the financial system. It is not the time to take the taxpayer’s money and give it to Wall Street. It is not the time to take the taxpayer’s money and give it to homeowners who can’t pay their mortgages. We’re taking the taxpayers money and correcting an error we should have corrected over five years ago - making the markets more transparent and ensuring that people who benefit from risky deals also assume the downside to those deals when they go bad.
Has the “oil bubble” finally burst?
Back on June 23, I wrote a piece entitled “Why is Crude Oil (and gasoline) so expensive?” Since then, I’ve received quite a few emalis and comments to that piece - many of which essentially chastising me for not adopting the “drill here, drill now” framework as being the main lynchpin to solving US oil [...]
Why is crude oil (and gasoline) so expensive?
I have been getting emails from readers essentially asking me to do a post on oil - why is it so expensive, and what, if anything should be the GOP’s party platform on energy. While energy economics is not my specialty - I do understand commodities markets, and I believe I probably understand better than [...]
Inventories and War Spending Keep Economy Growing in First Quarter
Washington, D.C. (Center for Economic and Policy Research) by Dean Baker: GDP eked out a 0.6 percent gain for the second consecutive quarter as a jump in inventories and defense spending kept GDP in positive territory. Sales of final goods actually fell by 0.2 percent in the quarter, only the second decline since the last [...]
“Speak English” Signs OK at Philly Shop
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The owner of a famous cheesesteak shop did not discriminate when he posted signs asking customers to speak English%2C a city panel ruled Wednesday.
In a 2-1 vote, a Commission on Human Relations panel found that two signs at Geno’s Steaks telling customers, “This is America: WHEN ORDERING ‘PLEASE SPEAK ENGLISH,’” do not [...]
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