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• The Cost of Government Guarantees

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 744
  John Kay’s column in yesterday’s Financial Times criticizes government guarantees to banks because they involve hidden but large costs. According to Kay: Such guarantees distort competition: sheltered banks outperform rivals not because of greater efficiency, but because capital becomes cheaper to obtain. ...
  1 week ago

• US also has it’s own vast overbuilding of commercial real estate that is sitting VACANT.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  Dubai World owners were caught up in the same heady debt-fueled commercial construction-binge that swept across the United States. The problem can be traced back to lax lending standards and low interest rates. Now demand has fallen off a cliff and credit is getting tighter. Dubai World can’t roll over its debt or ...
  1 week ago

• High risk….high reward, my friends. This is the essence of capitalism.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  In my honest opinion, the only reason we don’t have a full blown revolt right now is because this fraud is just way too complicated for the average person to comprehend. I bet even some of our elected members of Congress have no clue. Unfortunately, the only ones who do fully comprehend this crisis are those who are ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gambling, Washington-Style

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 540
  Had to pop some Tums before sitting down to write this post. Read it, and you’ll understand why. From MarketWatch this morning: At its high point, the federal government was guaranteeing or insuring $4.3 trillion in face value of financial assets, according to a report released Friday by the Congressional ...
  4 weeks ago

• "How Henrys mother saved the economy"

  
  Peter Martin — Authority: 556
  Thats the title of the wonderful page one story by John Kehoe in todays (gated) Financial Review . Extracts: Ken Henry had spent all Saturday locked in the cabinet room with Kevin Rudd and senior ministers trying to ward off the global financial crisis. Now the Treasury secretary just wanted a quiet Sunday ...
  6 weeks ago

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