Archives for 2008

Ok, gentle readers, this is THE moment we have to stop the largest fraud our Government has ever attempted to perpetrate on the taxpayers. ...


"How can we bailout Lehman without the public knowing about it?"  That's about the gist of the current thinking behind Bernanke & Paulson's latest scheming ...


Here's a great historical chart showing the DOW movements against the FED and Treasury interventions over the course of this crisis, good read (PDF): ...


Republican senator (and former Phillies Pitcher!) Jim Bunning calls for the resignations of Treasury Secretary Paulson and Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke. We no longer ...


Opining on the news of the Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac seizures by the Treasury Department, both Presidential candidates, as well as President Bush have ...


That is the sound of your party pilfering our bank accounts (socializing the losses), to pay for their bad investments. In the last twelve ...


Friday, after markets closed, word leaked that the Treasury will announce plans to nationalize Fannie and Freddie in the largest private bailout in our nation's ...


From The Economist: The FDIC will soon have to replenish its deposit-insurance fund, which collects premiums from banks and stood at around $53 billion before the ...


Here's an interesting commentary on how the FED is allowing highly leveraged trades of Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac bonds for hard cash from the ...


For those of you who might still need convicing that there are real policy differences at stake in the up coming US presidential election, here ...


It is hard to avoid addict analogies when discussing the politics of oil these days.  Just like the junkie who'll do anything to get one ...


Well, now that the financial train-wreck that has been occurring in slow motion for over a year has finally penetrated the collective consciousness, Federal Bureaucrats ...


Ask yourself, when was the last time that you heard an elected official give a speech as candid, reconciliatory and down to earth as this ...


In case anyone cares, the idea that our publicly traded institutions operate in a free market has been dealt a death knell, as the powers ...