Sheldon Richman, writing for the Foundation for Economic Freedom, on The Unconstitutionality of Protectionism Even the staunchest free trader might reluctantly concede that the apparatus of protectionism—tariffs, import quotas, and […]
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Tag: Economics and Financial Services
Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production. – Ayn Rand
More on Fannie Mae
Bob Smith has a gaggle of interesting posts on the genesis of the nation’s largest government sponsored enterprise – Fannie Mae (here, here, and here). Read and heed. I posted […]
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More GSE Troubles
Reuters on Fannie Mae defends accounting to Congress – CEO Raines says regulators misinterpreted rules: Fannie Mae’s chief executive and another top official on Wednesday defended the mortgage giant’s accounting […]
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Baker Scrutinizes Sales of Financial Products on Military Bases
FYI House Committee on Financial Services Michael G. Oxley, Chairman Website: http://financialservices.house.gov/ Baker Scrutinizes Sales of Financial Products on Military Bases The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, […]
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We Just Can’t…
ndy Stedman of No Treason on I’m Copyright: My wife just tried to get Wal-Mart to make copies of this (mildly embarassing) picture of me, and several others from my […]
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Statistical Nonsense
Thomas Sowell on The grand fallacy: People without the slightest knowledge of economics or the slightest experience running a business will boldly assert that women are paid only 75 percent […]
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Spend, Spend, Spend and then Spend Some Friggin’ More
My friends at the libertarian Independent Institute (the nemesis of big government conservative sellouts everywhere) have released an interesting tidbit on the spend-like-there's-no-tomorrow cabal running the current Administration. The report […]
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Construction Equipment and Stuff
In this posting, Bill Dennis has reminded me of the one thing I don't miss about living in Central Illinois. That said, here are a few things (link, link, link, […]
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Old Friend
An old coworker stopped by the office today. For the most part, I like the people I've worked with at various organizations, but this guy is one of my all […]
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Conservative Protectionism
Ariel Dillon of the Independent Institute on Bush's Steel Tariffs Not the First Instance of Hypocrisy on Free Trade: Now that the World Trade Organization has rejected the U.S. appeal […]
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