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“Greenspan: Fiscal Stimulus Worked Far Less Than Expected”
“The former head of the Federal Reserve said fiscal stimulus efforts have fallen far short of expectations, and the government now needs to get out of the way and allow businesses and markets to power the recovery. “We have to find a way to simmer down the extent of activism that is going on” with…
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Atlas Liberty Cafe with Peter Boettke
Please join us for September’s edition of the Atlas Liberty Café on Wednesday, September 22, from 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM, at the Cato Institute. Liberty Café seeks to bring together allies with interests in worldwide issues to (1) share perspectives on global developments, and (2) provide opportunites for networking and discovering synergies. This month’s…
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“Golden Opportunity for Social Security”
“The time has come to get our financial situation in order. I’m not talking about the pros and cons of another stimulus or if the Bush/Obama plans “worked” or not, but a more substantive proposal. Let’s get some of our gold back from the International Monetary Fund, monetize it, and put it in the Social…
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“Regulators Tighten Bank Capital Rules”
“Global authorities have settled on their punishment for banks’ role in the financial crisis: a future encumbered by the burden of significantly heavier reserves that will impede the impulse to seek profit through excessive risk taking. Senior regulators from 27 countries agreed on Sunday at a meeting in Basel, Switzerland, that lenders should be forced…
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China’s Real Monetary Problem — WSJ
REVIEW & OUTLOOK — A bipartisan swarm pounded Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Capitol Hill yesterday for not doing enough to stop China’s supposed money mischief. The sessions made clear that pressure is building to impose punitive tariffs on Chinese goods if the yuan doesn’t appreciate in value. While it’s true that China’s monetary policy…
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The search for stable prices and the role of gold — CMRE
By Prof. Forrest Capie, Official Historian (Bank of England) — How can stable prices be secured so that the economy can be allowed to deliver what it is capable of? There was a time when the question simply did not arise. Money was tied to gold and stability prevailed. At the present time some monetary…
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The ritual of sound-bite economics — WP
By Robert J. Samuelson Monday, September 20, 2010; A15 It is a ritual as predictable as the tides. With every election, we descend into sound-bite economics. Rhetorical claims grow more partisan and self-serving. We are now deep in this process. President Obama’s policies either averted another Great Depression — or have crippled the recovery. These…
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The German Miracle: Another Look
Earlier this summer George Soros and some leading Keynesian economists criticized what they regarded as Germany’s overly strict fiscal discipline. Yet Germany’s real output expanded at a robust 9% annual rate in the second quarter, while the U.S. economy grew at an anemic 1.6% rate. So is Germany now a role model for how to…
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“Debt, financial crisis hurt U.S. competitiveness”
“Government debt and deficits have emerged as a chief concern among developed world economies, as a decline in tax receipts during the recession and an increase in spending on stimulus programs combined to require record levels of government borrowing. Crafting an “exit strategy” – cutting annual deficits without undermining economic growth by doing so too…
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Prof. James M. Buchanan Is the 2010 Recipient of FSSO’s Lifetime Achievement Award
Professor Emeritus of Economics at George Mason University and Nobel Laureate James M. Buchanan received the Fund for the Study of Spontaneous Orders’ Lifetime Achievement Award at George Mason University on September 9th, 2010. The event was co-hosted by Fund for the Study of Spontaneous Orders at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Liberty Fund, George Mason…
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