Tag: Economics and Financial Services

Reprinted by permission of Ray Abernathy.  Ray's website is available at: http://www.rayabernathy.com After a brief hiatus, FLBP is back with a new look, a new hook and a new book […]

The Fed’s Risky Business by William F. Shughart II Before being appointed Federal Reserve Board chairman, Ben Bernanke was known best in academic circles for his work on the Great […]

Can Environmentalists and Economists Agree? by Art Carden, Mike Hammock  Can environmentalists and economists agree? If so, on what? The answer to both questions is: “It depends.” Philosophically, environmentalism consists […]

The Crash of 2008 by Ray Abernathy Reprinted by permission of Ray Abernathy.  Ray's website is available at: http://www.rayabernathy.com They say hindsight is always 20-20, so let’s take a trip […]

Should the Federal Reserve be Abolished? by Alvaro Vargas Llosa  WASHINGTON—The Federal Reserve recently announced new measures to tackle the current financial crisis. They include helping J.P. Morgan Chase acquire […]

A Natural Gas Disaster by Alvaro Vargas Llosa    BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Few things better illustrate the tragedy of Latin American populist and nationalist politics than the crisis related […]

Daylight Saving Time Costs Nation $1.7 Billion by William F. Shughart II    Americans’ body clocks will suffer another jolt this weekend as daylight saving time returns and everyone (except […]

Reprinted by permission of Ray Abernathy.  Ray's website is available at: http://www.rayabernathy.com Earlier this week, President Bush gave an all-too-familiar thumbs down to an appeal by a bi-partisan delegation of […]

A Failure to Stimulate by William F. Shughart, II  It’s an election year, so it should be no surprise that politicians are in the market for votes. “Passed in record […]

Reprinted by permission of Ray Abernathy.  Ray's website is available at: http://www.rayabernathy.com This morning I was searching for an AP article, which I found posted at Yahoo Finance.  After reading […]