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Politically Feasible Stimulus

…infrastructure, particularly transportation projects, is also under discussion. But it would be easier for a package composed purely of tax cuts to “avoid the stain of a ‘bailout’ or ‘stimulus’…

How to solve many problems

…increase. Or how about the Carter Chrystler bailout (not the Obama Chrystler bailout). Ditto. Sometimes the US Federal government buys risky assets. It doesn’t do this for the high returns,…

Following the money

bailout see that as their job.” In her view, the government should be trying to create more reliable customers for those banks by shoring up the fragile finances of the…