Posts Tagged as ‘economics’

August 22, 2009

Poor Is A Relative Term

Doug Wilson is always provocative about politics, church and society, and economics.  He makes his points well.
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July 31, 2009

Cash for Clunkers Junked

The much touted Cash for Clunkers is itself getting ready to get junked.  What should we think about proposed massive programs like health care reform if “smaller” (there are still billions involved!) programs like this cannot be effectively planned and carried out?
By the way, the $1 Billion set aside for covering turned in clunkers, at [...]

October 11, 2008

The Tumultous History of US Banks

As we are going through this economic crisis that is hitting our banking institutions so hard it is useful to have a little context for light.  John Steele Gordon, at the Wall Street Journal, provides this short statement of the roots of our current crisis:
“In the 1990s interstate banking was finally allowed, creating nationwide banks [...]