…failed miserably at it—are being saved by the form of the bailout, while the cost—again, judging by the lessons of the slow-motion S&L meltdown—will be increasing for the taxpayers. The…

Bailouts and Moral Hazard by Robert Here we are again, just into a Bear (sterns) market and we have to face the fact that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are…

…a share for a total of $236 million, this was less a “bailout” than a Fed-mediated liquidation sale. Bear wasn’t too big to fail after all, though there’s still the…

…systemic banking crisis of proportions that would be several orders of magnitude larger than the S&L crisis, a crisis that ended up with a fiscal bailout cost of over $120…

…facing foreclosure will be offered assistance from the Federal Housing Administration. But unfortunately, the “freeze” is just another fraud – and like the other bailout proposals, it has nothing to…

…internal e-mail exchange among four senior Pentagon officials. “We all know that this is a bailout for Boeing,” Ronald G. Garant, an official of the Pentagon comptroller’s office, said in…

…that it is his money, let him consider carefully how Ms. Hayes might answer Mr. Buckley’s question. Update: BattlePanda is not happy about this United Airlines bailout but documents how…

The Club for Growth is spinning out of control. First, we get their blog quoting the WSJ editorial page with: But after receiving a federal bailout for a fiscal “crisis”…

…is an arcane policy and Ippolito’s discussion of why there is an increasing likelihood that taxpayers “will eventually be called upon to provide a bailout” is certainly worth reading. In…

…yes cutting costs means layoffs. In this case the alternatives were probably bankruptcy or a government bailout. By 1996, IBM was back on track . How does all of this…