Economic Insights


Liberty as the Remedy to Poverty: Socialism as a Cause

My talk before the Oxford Libertarian Society on “Liberty as the Remedy to Poverty: Socialism as a Cause” is available in video form. (Unfortunately, my writing on the flip chart…

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Bankruptcy and the Bailout

Bankruptcy Doesn’t Equal Death: The auto industry could use the process to get competitive, Don Boudreaux, Wall Street Journal, 11 December, 2008

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Coming to you soon!

Hat tip: Walter Williams, by way of Don Boudreaux “Say No to the Auto Bailout,” by Daniel J. Mitchell

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Another View of the Icelandic Banking Crisis

From the Wall Street Journal, by Hannes Homstein Gissurarson, “Iceland Abandoned: Brown’s actions helped to worsen the island’s financial crisis.”

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What’s Wrong With this Title? “Hyperinflation forces Zimbabwe to print $200 million notes”

Imagine life like this: The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe had capped maximum daily withdrawals at 500,000 Zimbabwean dollars: about 25 U.S. cents, or about a quarter of Thursday’s price of…

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Financial Crisis in Russian

(And in English.)

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Financial Crisis Video in Kurdish and Azerbaijani

Kurdish Azerbaijani (embedded here) Here it is (a very similar version, at least) in English.

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A Strong Case Against Bailing out Ford and GM

“Just Say No to Detroit,” by David Yermack, Wall Street Journal, 15 November 2008. (May be available for only a limited time without Wall Street Journal registration.)

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Beijing

A panel discussion of the roots of the financial crisis (“The Fed,” “Fannie Mae,” “Freddie Mac,” “Community Reinvestment Act”) I got in at 5:30 am to Beijing, got to the…

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