The stimulus effect
How much unemployment can we blame on the Obama administration? Economist Rob Shapiro dug into some Bureau of Labor Statistics data and came back with the best numbers I’ve seen on the subject. He...
Tagged: TARP
Managed Ignorance Watch
The latest in managed ignorance: Voters think TARP passed under Obama, not Bush. So many corrections, so little time…
Did the bank bailout work?
According to the Government Accountability Office, the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) may not have actually accomplished anything. UPDATE: Here’s the full report. I think the Examiner editorial over-sells its premise, but this line...
Economic Crisis
This post grows out of some discussion Freddie and I have participated in over at The Confabulum re: Conor’s post about potential bank nationalization. Bank nationalization,were it to occur, would undoubtedly be the result...
