Tankosphere Today: Oct. 6, 2008
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At the hearing being held today by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, in which former Lehman Brothers CEO Dick Fuld is now testifying, an earlier panel attempted to look at the causes of Lehman’s collapse…
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Another Argument Against Regulation – Adam Smith Institute
Chris Dillow continues to earn his label of the thinking man’s lefty. He points out something that many miss:
In other words, all of the US’s massive stock market boom between the early 70s and late 90s came because of new firms. Aggregate economic growth occurs not so much because existing firms expand, but because new ones enter… -
“Before we give up on free markets, let’s actually give them a shot.” – Cato-at-Liberty)
Cato adjunct scholar Shirley Svorny has an oped in today’s Los Angeles Times. An excerpt…
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Thoughts on the DOE Loan Guarantee Program – NEI Nuclear Notes
The Department of Energy is moving forward with its clean energy Loan Guarantee program. In a press release last week, DOE announced that it had received applications from 17 companies to build 14 nuclear power plants…