Tankosphere Today: Sept 16, 2008

Todd Thurman / September 16, 2008

• Regulating Away Improvement – Adam Smith Institute

The bailouts are getting bigger. The rescue of US mortgage giants Freddie-Mac and Fannie-Mae is hailed as the largest bailout in history. On our side of the Atlantic we saw the similar, but smaller, rescue of Northern Rock…

• Lehman Bankruptcy: In Capitalism, Failure is not a Dirty Word – OpenMarket.org

My reaction to Lehman Brothers’ declaring of Chapter 11 bankruptcy and the refusal of Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and others to take extraordinary Bear Stearns-like measures for the government to prop the firm up…

• The Left’s New Infrastructure – The Next Right

Gary Andres makes a very important point about the Left’s new infrastructure in a recent Washington Times article. The whole thing is very worth reading, but I want to focus on the infrastructure…

• Road Systems Should be Commercialised – IEA Blog

Britain’s transport policy “Railways good, roads bad” is not sustainable, and proves once again that transport is too important to be left to the vicissitudes of politics. The time has come to commercialise road systems…

• Time for Nuclear: Gresham Barrett’s Energy Plan – NEI Nuclear Notes

Representative Gresham Barrett from South Carolina has put forward an energy plan that greatly favors nuclear energy…