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Research & Commentary: Federal Reserve Transparency

Matthew Glans and Brian Costin

Research & Commentary / The Heartland Institute / September 23, 2009

Given the enormous investment of current and future taxpayer dollars--$12.7 trillion--in remedying a credit crisis traceable in large part to policies of ... (read more)

Fed Challenge: When to Put Brakes on Money Supply

Robert B. Ekelund Jr. and Mark Thornton

Finance, Insurance & Real Estate News / The Heartland Institute / October 01, 2009

Graphs of economic statistics usually meander across a page like a walk through a forest or wiggle up and down with the business cycle like an EKG machine. ... (read more)

Our Crisis of Regulation

Richard A. Posner

The New York Times / The New York Times / June 25, 2009

THE 88-page report issued by the Treasury Department last week proposes far-reaching changes in financial regulation. Unfortunately, the report is premature, ... (read more)

Will the $800 Billion-Plus Stimulus Plan Bring Economic Recovery?

Gerald W. Scully

Brief Analysis No. 643 / National Center for Policy Analysis / February 10, 2009

Among these policies, less stringent mortgage lending terms generated millions of subprime mortgages with a face value of several trillion dollars. Cheap ... (read more)

Terrible Credit Crunch of 2008—The Greatest Hoax of All Time?

Robert Higgs

The Independent Institute / The Independent Institute Commentary / January 06, 2009

Remember the credit crunch? Of course, you do. We’d never seen anything like it, or so the highest financial authorities and their lapdogs in the ... (read more)

The Crisis of 2008: Structural Lessons for and from Economics

Daron Acemoglu

Massachusetts Institute of Technology / January 06, 2009

We do not yet know whether the global financial and economic crisis of 2008 will go down in history as a momentous or even uniquely catastrophic event. ... (read more)

FDR's policies prolonged Depression by 7 years, UCLA economists calculate

Meg Sullivan

UCLA News / UCLA News / August 10, 2004

Two UCLA economists say they have figured out why the Great Depression dragged on for almost 15 years, and they blame a suspect previously thought to be ... (read more)

We Can’t Spend Our Way Out of Trouble

Matthew Glans

Letter to the Editor: Chicago Tribune / The Heartland Institute / December 22, 2008

The true failure of the current economic crisis lies with the government institutions attempting to regulate themselves out of the mess they’ve made ... (read more)

10 Reasons to Oppose a Stimulus Package for the States

Chris Edwards

Tax & Budget Bulletin / The Cato Institute / December 19, 2008

The U.S. economy is in recession, and federal policymakers want to help by applying some old-fashioned Keynesian medicine. They are considering a “stimulus” ... (read more)

White House Auto Bailout a Recipe for Failure

Sam Kazman and John Berlau

The Competitive Enterprise Institute / The Competitive Enterprise Institute / December 19, 2008

Sam Kazman, General Counsel of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, issued the following statement on the White House bailout plan for car manufacturers: ... (read more)