bloomberg.com - 11/13/2008
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Bush Warns Against `Too Much' Government in Markets (Update2) By Simon Kennedy and Holly Rosenkrantz Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush today urged leaders of the world's biggest economies not to abandon free- market capitalism as they seek an escape from the financial crisis, ...
bloomberg.com - 11/13/2008
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bloomberg.com —
Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush
today will urge leaders of the world's biggest industrial...
and developing economies not to abandon principles of free-market capitalism as they seek an escape from the international financial crisis, ...
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Bush Warns Against Dismantling Free Market System (Update1)
cato-at-liberty.org - 11/7/2008
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cato-at-liberty.org —
Left-liberal groups are quick to declare Barack Obama’s
win a broad endorsement of the “progressive” agenda, their...
highly inaccurate name for more taxes, more spending, more entitlements, and more regulation. After a trillion-dollar ...
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A Sweeping Rejection of President Bush
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You've Got to Be Kidding Me
Club for Growth —
From Bloomberg comes this headline: "Bush Warns Against `Too Much' Government in Markets."
Gee, do you think?
Oh, please (by Russell Roberts)
Cafe Hayek —
President Bush has lost the right to say this.
If he was serious...
SCSUScholars —
...about this, Hank Paulson would be escorted from Washington by U.S. marshals. In a speech at the Manhattan Institute in New York before weekend talks among leaders from the Group of 20 nations, Bush said policy makers should resist the urge to meddle too much in markets as they seek to reverse the financial and economic turmoil now engulfing the world. "History has shown that the greater threat to economic prosperity is not too little government involvement in the market, but too much,'' Bush said. "Our aim should not be more government, it should be smarter government.'' Mr. Bush, I had thought you were actually going to do ...
Snarky Thought of the Day
Division of Labour —
... November 14, 2008 Snarky Thought of the Day Crikey, George W. Bailout warning against too much government involvement in markets is akin to Bill Clinton warning against marital infidelity. Posted by E. Frank Stephenson at 01:22 PM in ...
Bits and Pieces: 11-18-08
QandO —
Russ Roberts:"Oh Please-President Bush has lost the right to say this." Also, he has a great Mea Culpa on why he missed this, and a discussion that fits right into my theme about how many missed this meltdown, and advice for those of us who did and might think too much of ourselves: I should mention first that the few people who did see it coming were not necessarily any wiser than anyone else. Some of them had predicted nine of the last five recessions. A stopped clock is right twice a day. Even those who claim to have foreseen this mess couldn’t make the case well enough to alarm very many other people. And ...
Who said this?
SCSUScholars —
First, History has shown that the greater threat to economic prosperity is not too little government involvement in the market, but too much. Our aim should not be more government, it should be smarter government.Second, I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system ... to make sure the economy doesn't collapse. A disorganized bankruptcy could create enormous economic difficulties, further economic difficulties. I feel a sense of obligation to my successor to make sure there is a not a huge economic crisis. Look, we're in a crisis now. We're in a huge recession, but I don't want to make it ...
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