Treasury Department’s New Dollar Bill
That’s more like it:
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That’s more like it:
Treasury Department’s New Dollar Bill Read More »
Let’s subsidize huge loans to millions of people with bad credit! What could possibly go wrong? Check out this amazing New York Times article from 1999 explaining the roots of the mess we find ourselves in today: In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the
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D.W. MacKenzie, our speaker at this month’s Manhattan LP meeting, showed up in yesterday’s www.mises.org daily article. Apparently, some people beleive that the Maryland crab fishing industry is of such strategic importance that it too needs a taxpayer sponsored bailout.  You can read it all here. You can meet Dr. MacKenzie in person this month in
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(Press release from Bill Buran for NY Assembly in 72AD) New York, NY: Bill Buran congratulated his Republican friends in the Congress for holding the line and voting NO thus stopping the $700 billion bailout bill. “This bailout is the biggest robbery since FDR took the peoples gold in the last Great Depression,” proclaims Buran.
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While the fat cats squeal, free market business men and women are going about their own business of creating jobs, making profit and improving choice and the standard of living. William Dunkelberg, chief economist for the National Federation of Independant Business, the largest small business lobbying group, says the bailout will do “probably nothing” to
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With his characteristic depth of insight, Jim Babka at Downsize DC points our that credits markets are far from frozen and that this is just another example of big government creating a crisis so they can pick your pocket. Read it here. You can use the Downsize DC site to quickly and easily email your Senators
Downsize DC gets it right on the bailout – tell your representatives to just say no! Read More »
Those of us in the Freedom Movement have been watching our own little soap opera the last few weeks as some of our heroes and leaders blink and make some embarrassing mistakes. I’ve heard a lot of griping and done a little myself. It’s been suggested that Ron Paul botched his primary campaign and then
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Apparently the church where Sarah Palin worships recently sponsored a “Pray Away the Gay” retreat to try to cure those who suffer from same-sex attraction. The good folks at Marriage Equality NY put together the following video in response. Watch for cameos from Manhattan Libertarian members and candidates, including Isaiah Matos, Bill Buran and Dodge
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Holy checks and balances, Batman! Just so we’re all clear how much unbridled authority we’d be granting clueless Hank Paulson (see my previous post), Christopher Manion at LewRockwell.com calls attention to this little provision tucked inside the “emergency” bailout legislation: “Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency
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On Meet the Press yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg expressed his full confidence in Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson to steer us out of the current economic crisis: “Well, I think number one, Hank’s the right guy for now. He knows what goes on on Wall Street, he understands these complex financial instruments in a ways most people
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