From one of the Wall Street Journal blogs , "Fan-Fred Turmoil Made Chinese Bankers Nervous", and about how foreign holders of Fannie-Freddie assets justified their nationalization. However, most of the post is about how the growing influence of sovereign wealth funds must be squelched when they ... Read more

Deflation doesn't have to be a bad thing Globe and Mail - Canada Alabama economist Mark Thornton calls this attitude apoplithorismosphobia - a completely artificial manipulation of Greek that expresses an irrational fear ... I should correct the author and say that most mainstream economis ... Read more

The Independent Review has made my article on this topic available here < /a> . ... Read more

Review in French Review in German Review in Italian ... Read more

Contrary to what the blogging heads say, there is nothing that makes this nationalization inevitable. If the government fails to nationalize Freddie and Fannie, the world as we know it will come to an end. Those who are saying so are trying to scare the population, the same as with every other ma ... Read more

It is important that the government bail out Fannie and Freddie.The free enterprise system, with its private property rights, profit and loss system of incentives, and market prices that allow individuals to rationally plan, works just fine for all other goods and services: food, clothing, health ... Read more

The conventional opinions on the Fannie and Freddie bailout are not terribly broad. From the Left, we hear recycled market-failure arguments, whereas from the Right we hear that the bailout is a necessary evil to be endured until the economy and the housing market rebounds in a few years, at which ... Read more

Check it out: "F annie and Freddie nationalised - let's take over the rest ." No, it's not the Onion. It's Socialist.net, which is at least more honest than the Wall Street Journal in admitting what this is about. ... Read more

Failure is not an option, right? Then why is Lehman Brothers being allowed to fall apart? Why hasn't the Fed stepped in to prevent another Bear Stearns? What separates a failable company from a non-failable one? In 2004, Robert Kuhn produced a show called "In Search of China." It chronicle ... Read more

In the absence of all these government interventions, it is likely that the corrective phase of the business cycle would already be over and we would be in recovery mode. To be sure, housing would remain in a slump for some time to come, but restorative market forces would already be at work crea ... Read more