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Did “Tight” Fed Policy Cause the Financial Crisis? | Mises Daily

#Financial Crisis           dossier:
Recently Senator Ted Cruz aggressively questioned Janet Yellen on the Fed’s possible role in causing the financial crisis and subsequent recession. In particular, he claimed that “in the summer of 2008” the Fed “told markets that it was shifting to a tighter monetary policy,” and that this announcement “set off a scramble for cash, which Read More

The real truth about the 2008 financial crisis | Brian S. Wesbury | TEDxCountyLineRoad

((#Social Engineering)), #Financial Crisis, #Inequality/Redistribution argument, #Poverty trap           dossier:
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. The Great Economic Myth of 2008, challenging the accounting to accounting principal. Brian Wesbury is Chief Economist at First Trust Advisors L.P., a financial services firm based in Wheaton, Illinois. Mr. Wesbury has been a member of the Academic Advisory Read More

Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis

§.ABSTRACT ECONOMY/Keynesianism, §Global Economy, #Financial Crisis           dossier:
Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis. Award-winning youtube hit giving fresh insight into the greatest economic crisis of our age: the one still awaiting us. With the US raising their debt ceiling, are we in a global bail-out bubble that will eventually burst? This doc offers a fresh insight into the greatest economic crisis of our Read More
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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

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