George Washington's blog
We Can't Even BEGIN to Debate Keynesian Stimulus Until We Know the Facts
Submitted by George Washington on 11/02/2009 12:56 -0500Failure to investigate and prosecute those responsible for bringing about the crisis may extend the crisis longer than any failure to spend more on stimulus...
Congressman Watt Guts Bill to Audit the Fed
Submitted by George Washington on 10/31/2009 15:45 -0500The Empire strikes back...
Chairman of the Department of Economics at George Mason University: Politicians Are NOT Prostitutes ... They Are Pimps
Submitted by George Washington on 10/31/2009 15:41 -0500Calling politicians prostitutes is inaccurate...
Breaking Up The Too Big to Fails Will NOT Harm America's Ability to Compete with Foreign Banks
Submitted by George Washington on 10/30/2009 12:32 -0500"If leadership won’t add such language [reigning in the TBTFs], call your elected official and ask how much they actually receive when they agree to put on the kneepads."
Conservatives and Liberals Agree: Proposed Bank Oversight Bill Will Make Things Worse
Submitted by George Washington on 10/29/2009 13:44 -0500When a liberal labor leader and a conservative financial policy
analyst unite against something, you know that something is really bad (actually, I don't believe in the whole fake left-right dichotomy; I think its Americans versus those trying to steal our wallets and our rights, but that's another story).
"Money Multipliers Have Collapsed Everywhere...Confidence Is Missing. I Don't See Any Way To Stabilise M3 In Such Circumstances"
Submitted by George Washington on 10/29/2009 13:37 -0500Why is M3 falling?
Government Is Trying to Make Bailouts for the Giant Banks PERMANENT
Submitted by George Washington on 10/28/2009 16:45 -0500Unbelievable ...
Should We Give the Fed More Power ... Or Less?
Submitted by George Washington on 10/28/2009 11:36 -0500Is giving the Fed more power like appointing the head of the Medellin drug cartel as drug tzar?
Big Banks Are NOT More Efficient
Submitted by George Washington on 10/27/2009 14:07 -0500The defenders of the TBTFs say that bigger is more efficient.
Are they right?
Tavakoli on AIG Swaps: "There’s No Way They Should Have Paid at Par. AIG Was Basically Bankrupt", and Goldman Sachs CFO Lied About AIG
Submitted by George Washington on 10/27/2009 12:58 -0500Janet Tavakoli with some more great quotes ...
Capitalism, Socialism or Fascism?
Submitted by George Washington on 10/26/2009 11:00 -0500What economic system do we really have in America right now?
The Real Reason That - For the First Time Ever - More Women are Working Than Men
Submitted by George Washington on 10/24/2009 18:54 -0500For the first time ever, there are as many women in the workforce as men.
Do you know why?
More Stress Test Shenanigans
Submitted by George Washington on 10/23/2009 17:51 -0500Here we go again ...
How Did America Fall So Fast?
Submitted by George Washington on 10/21/2009 11:55 -0500I wondered how America fell so fast. I think I found the answers.
