alephblog.com - 9/30/2008
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The House vote rejecting the Bailout bill leaves us where we were before : the Treasury, FDIC, Fed, and all the quasi-financial arms of the government do one-off bailouts as needed. That may be better than the proposed bailout for a number of reasons.
For raw reasons of liberty, it is ...
macroblog.typepad.com - 10/1/2008
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macroblog.typepad.com —
I’ve been thinking a lot about this topic
lately, and though it seems there are a good
many folk who approach the issue with great certainty, I do not share their confidence. I have, however, found it helpful to think through the following (not ...
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On rescues and bailouts
safehaven.com - 9/26/2008
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safehaven.com —
The late bubble has been the greatest on
record and is the accumulated consequence of 95 years
of Fed stimulation. This shows up most directly as a 95% decline in the purchasing power of the dollar, and indirectly as a series of business expansions ...
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Will Heroic Bailouts Work?
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... The U.S. banking system has been re-made in matter of weeks. (WSJ.com, TheDeal.com, MarketBeat)
How the bailout bill might move forward. (naked capitalism)
What are the alternatives to the modified Paulson plan? (Aleph Blog, Mavercon, Interfluidity, Marginal Revolution, ClusterStock.com)
Paulson’s mistakes ...
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