…Without that, it’s ultimately ‘bailout’ or ‘default’, or both. A side note: it would have really helped if the ECB allowed prices in Germany, for example, to overshoot the 2%…

…that protect taxpayers from having to bail out failed financial institutions.The provisions in question — which Ryan dubbed “permanent bailout authority” in a Wall Street Journal op-ed today, reviving a…

…care, or to defend the health care law against any lawsuit challenging any provision of the act. $80 billion savings. Discretionary Spending Limit, FY 2012-2021: Eliminate automatic increases for inflation…

…hat tip to Naked Capitalism suggests this thought: Congressional Republicans appear to be quietly but methodically executing a plan that would a) avoid a federal bailout of spendthrift states and…

…the Ireland bailout, and linking to Megan McArdle discussing the same. Its deja vu, for me, because it seems just about everyone commenting on the issue is ignoring what should…

…bailout, would be only the latest in a long string of companies that have poached workers from the political sector, and of employees who have bounced back and forth between…

…to learn different lessons from the series of financial bailouts of the last thirteen years. The links are necessary to flesh out the argument, but I hope further posts will…

…it already has been, and the bailout amounts still at risk are those used to bolster mortgage lenders); and that the economy is worse off because of the stimulus (not…

…for the country for the Treasury to bear risk, so the risky returns act as automatic stabilizers. After the jump, I quote Doug Elmendorf explaining what they do (and indirectly…

…two weeks worth of recent trading profits.” Goldman’s Bailout Fee, Wall St. Journal, July 17-18, 2010, at A12. Too little, methinks, even with the concession not to seek a tax…