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- Interventionism
- Douglas French
- 2009
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Presented by Douglas E. French at “Recovery or Stagnation?,” the Mises Circle in San Francisco; sponsored by Mark L. Hart, III, and hosted by the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Recorded Saturday, August 29th,
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Recorded at the Mises Circle in Seattle, September 12th, 2009. Sponsored by James M. Wolfe.
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Hustler magazine’s Larry Flint With the federal government ladling out billions in bailout money to the financial and auto industries, a number of businesses now have their hands out. Home builders, retailers and commercial real-estate developers all want a piece of the bailout pie. Not like there is an existing warm pie cooling on the window sill
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New president Barack Obama’s $3.55 trillion budget serves notice that if you thought government couldn’t get any bigger or more intrusive, think again. The budget “represents real and dramatic change,” according to the President. But really the Obama plan is just more of the same, with the federal government expanding its role in education,
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For those thinking that the real-estate bust is all over with — think again. The residential market has hit the ditch and continues to sink lower, but now the commercial property market is rolling over and will take many lenders down the drain with it. America’s small and regional bankers are pointing their fingers at the big banks, claiming the
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It’s widely acknowledged that hundreds if not thousands of banks are on the ropes and just waiting for regulators to wrap them in yellow tape some Friday evening. However, fewer than forty US banks have been seized this year. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) list of problem banks grew to 305 in the first quarter, the highest number
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There is an epidemic of bankruptcies: Circuit City, Sharper Image, Goody’s, Gottschalk’s, Comp USA, Levitz Furniture, Chrysler, GM. Not to mention all the local businesses that don’t make the news when they close up shop. And the rash of corporate bustouts is far from over according to consulting firm Bain & Company, who predicts nearly 100 large
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“The overexpansion of the strip-club business is yet another malinvestment created by the Federal Reserve’s monetary creation.” Strip clubs are the ultimate boom-time creation. After all, the business model rests on masses of men overpaying for cocktails while overpaying lithesome young women to bump and grind on their laps — all of this after
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It’s hard to imagine that the monetary policy talk can get any nuttier, but we’ve likely only just begun. After all, despite the Federal Reserve growing its balance sheet by 140 percent and dropping rates essentially to zero, the bankruptcies just keep on coming. Ex-Fed governor Wayne Angell told Larry Kudlow’s CNBC audience, “monetary policy