Another deeply buried, but cogent analysis of the economic situation, by Johan Norberg. Some excerpts:The problem, however, was not that we had too few regulations; on the contrary, we had too many, and above all, fault…

This article is great, has outstanding (and fairly simple) clarity on the bank failures & government actions.Fannie and Freddie then went on a subprime bender. They made it clear that they wanted to buy all the subpr…

Someone just said to me, "I just saw that Starbucks is closing 600 stores... it's a Sign of the Times. They opened all those stores when things were booming, and now they're cutting back? It's scary!"It may be a Sign o…

This is wrong in so many ways. Even from a purely objective, amoral point of view, it is wrong, because it doesn't make sense to protect one bank in a (supposedly) free market economy. I can only assume the Fed people …

Didn't go see Bill Clinton after all. I was told (too late) that I had to have been at the venue an hour early, to get a seat, so instead of driving up, I went home. I don't imagine I missed much.On a somewhat unrelate…