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EconoMonitor : EconoMonitor » Cause and Effect – Government Policies and the Financial Crisis

§Global Economy, §MarketISSUES           dossier:
Although the media are full of talk that we face a “crisis of capitalism,” the underlying cause of the financial meltdown is something much more mundane and practical–the housing, tax, and bank regulatory policies of the U.S. government. The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, penalty-free refinancing of home loans, tax preferences Read More
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THE FAILURE OF THE REGULATORY STATE

§MarketISSUES           dossier:
by Pascal Salin The current financial crisis is an occasion for many commentators to join in another chorus of capitalism’s chronic instability and the need to strengthen market regulation, which is referred to erroneously as regulating the financial markets. This was the creed espoused, for instance, by the French President in his recent remarks in Read More
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Hey, Barney Frank: The Government Did Cause the Housing Crisis – The Atlantic

!Centralism, !Planned economy, §MarketISSUES           dossier:
Of the 19.2 million subprime/low quality loans on the books of government agencies in 2008, 12 million were held or guaranteed by Fannie and Freddie A member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission responds to our interview with Barney Frank, arguing that without the government’s intervention, there would be no housing crisis Reuters On December Read More
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List of economic crises – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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  List of economic crisis and depressions. 3rd century Crisis of the Third Century 14th century 14th century banking crisis (the crash of the Peruzzi and the Bardi family Compagnia dei Bardi in 1345). 17th century Tulip mania (1637) 18th century South Sea Bubble (1720) (UK) Mississippi Company (1720) (France) Crisis of 1763 – started Read More

Who are Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? | Graziadio Business Review | Graziadio School of Business and Management | Pepperdine University

!Planned economy, !Subsidies and Fiscal reliefs, !Welfare, §.ABSTRACT ECONOMY/Keynesianism, #DeficitSpending/PublicDebt           dossier:
Who are Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Why did the government take them over and how did it impact the housing crisis? By Peggy J. Crawford, PhD and Terry Young, PhD 2008 Volume 11 Issue 4 This article examines the factors that led to the creation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The authors trace Read More
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▶ Storia dell’economia Liberismo contro Keynesismo

!Planned economy, !Welfare, ((#Social Engineering)), §.ABSTRACT ECONOMY/Keynesianism, §History, §MarketISSUES, #DeficitSpending/PublicDebt, #Inequality/Redistribution argument, #Poverty trap          
FACEBOOK – https://www.facebook.com/azione.prometeo BLOG – http://azioneprometeo.wordpress.com/2… La storia del novecento vista sotto l’aspetto economico, principalmente nella lotta dottrinale tra due punti di vista, quello keynesista e quello neoliberista, personificati dalle figure degli economisti Keynes e Von Hayek. ▶ Storia dell’economia Liberismo contro Keynesismo 1/2 – YouTube.     ▶ Storia dell’economia Liberismo contro Keynesismo 2/2 Read More
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▶ Tom Palmer: the inevitable collapse of the welfare state

!::SOCIALISM INTRINSIC FAILURE, !Welfare          
Dr Tom G Palmer says the welfare state is unsustainable and must be reformed. Dr Palmer, from the Atlas Network and the Cato Institute, is speaking in Melbourne to the Institute of Public Affairs and the Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance on Wednesday 10 April 2013. ▶ Tom Palmer: the inevitable collapse of the welfare state – Read More