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February 2009

February 13, 2009

Enough to just pay off everyone’s mortgage

According to Bloomberg.com, if you count the guarantees we are liable for, the federal government...

February 12, 2009

How will the stimulus plan affect you?

Here is an Associated Press Q&A about the just-passed Congressional solution to our economic woes....

February 11, 2009

Embracing the S-word

We conservative pundits have been criticizing for uttering the word. Now "Newsweek" is admitting that...

February 10, 2009

How much is a trillion dollars?

The Houston Chronicle helps us get our minds around just how much money the bailout...

February 05, 2009

Government to limit executive pay

President Obama is saying that companies that accept government bailout money can pay executives no...

February 04, 2009

Stimulus bill stymied in the Senate

Senate Lacks Votes to Pass Stimulus - washingtonpost.com: Senate Democratic leaders conceded yesterday that they...

January 2009

January 30, 2009

Special economic meltdown edition

Today and this weekend, we will contemplate our bad economy and the efforts to fix...

January 30, 2009

Character-building Depression Tips

We often talk about our parents and grandparents who went through the Great Depression, how...

January 30, 2009

Spend! Spend! Spend!

Notice that the advice we get for how to deal with the economic troubles is...

January 30, 2009

Would someone defend the bailout?

House Democrats have passed a $800 billion bailout on a party line vote, but, outside...

January 30, 2009

The prospects for your retirement funds

Where our country's economic woes hit many of us the hardest is watching our retirement...

January 30, 2009

If we have to have a stimulus plan. . .

. . .at least let's have one that stimulates the economy. So says economist Martin...

January 30, 2009

Back to Smoot-Hawley protectionism?

The bailout bill is loaded with 'Buy American' requirements. Isn't that reminiscent of the Smoot-Hawley...

January 30, 2009

Metaphors as Economics

George Will, in a column about how no one really knows what they are doing...

January 30, 2009

Rejoicing at gains and weeping at losses

Thanks to Tickletext for this pertinent and timely quotation from Augustine: “Many weep with the...

January 29, 2009

The Democrats’ bailout bill

The House passed the $819 billion bailout bill. Not a single Republican voted for it....

January 29, 2009

Deflation vs. Inflation

More benefits from the bad economy. Inflation slows to half-century low in 2008: Inflation slowed...

January 28, 2009

Trickle Down vs. Seep Up economics

Republicans trying to help the economy have pushed for "trickle down economics." That is, help...

January 26, 2009

All roads lead to Washington

The new urbanist scholar Joel Kotkin points out that Washington, D.C. is rapidly becoming the...

January 26, 2009

“Family planning” as economic stimulus

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi wants hundreds of millions of dollars in the economic...

January 20, 2009

Advice for Obama on the economy

What do YOU think the new president and his administration should do about the country's...

January 12, 2009

Madoff debacle hurts Planned Parenthood

According to this report, the Picower Foundation, a $1 billion Florida foundation devoted to supporting...

January 06, 2009

Obama as tax-cutter

Reports indicate that part of Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan will be a whopping is$300...

January 05, 2009

Absorbing the remains of the former American union

A while ago, we blogged about Russian scholar Igor Panarin, who is predicting that just...

January 01, 2009

Good news is coming!

Victor Davis Hanson, with a wicked allusion to George Orwell, predicts that as soon as...

December 2008

December 30, 2008

The two guys who caused the financial collapse

According to a fascinating bit of investigative reporting by Robert O'Harrow Jr. and Brady Dennis...

December 29, 2008

The gasoline dividend

According to this story, Americans are saving $1 billion a day, thanks to the drop...

December 23, 2008

The end of the legislative branch?

OK, so Congress voted not to bailout the auto industry to the tune of $14...

December 23, 2008

An even bigger Ponzi scheme

Bernard Madoff made off with $50 billion through a Ponzi scheme, which is a scam...

December 22, 2008

Does it matter if bailouts are illegal?

Thanks to FW for pointing out the latest threat to the rule of law. Consider...