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Commentaries tagged with bailout and debt

June 11, 2017	Illinois a Joking Matter No LongerThe scale of Chicago’s problems are eye-popping.
June 2, 2013	Good and Bad Bailouts in TARPFor all intents and purposes, TARP allowed the U.S. Treasury to act a lot like George Bailey using his honeymoon money to quell a bank run.
March 24, 2013	The Iraq War Ten Years OnThe war in Iraq was expensive.
March 10, 2013	The Sequester of the FutureThings will get worse before they get better.
March 10, 2013	The Sequester of the FutureThings will get worse before they get better.
January 21, 2013	Leadership and the Government ShutdownThe transparency of a genuine budget debate will reveal just how unsustainable our spending has become.
January 21, 2013	Leadership and the Government ShutdownThe transparency of a genuine budget debate will reveal just how unsustainable our spending has become.
January 7, 2013	More Budget FailuresIn the final hours, it was clear the poison pill of the fiscal cliff required too much courage for our ‘leaders’ in Washington.
January 7, 2013	More Budget FailuresIn the final hours, it was clear the poison pill of the fiscal cliff required too much courage for our ‘leaders’ in Washington.
December 9, 2012	Perhaps It Is Time to Pay Our DebtsAs a great nation, we build and do things that endure and these should be paid for, in part, by successive generations.
December 9, 2012	Perhaps It Is Time to Pay Our DebtsAs a great nation, we build and do things that endure and these should be paid for, in part, by successive generations.
November 25, 2012	‘Scooby Snacks’ and The Great American GiveawayHere, we'll focus on the ‘something for nothing’ crowd.
November 11, 2012	The Next Big CrisisBond markets have already identified two states that cannot possibly pay their obligations, and a further four that are in serious trouble.
May 21, 2012	Policy Choices: Austerity or AusterityTaking steps toward austerity is not what has caused Europe's recession.
April 23, 2012	Spending, Debt and Long-Run GrowthThe past four or five years have exposed many Americans to a continuing debate over the role of government spending in a recession and resurrected for them the ghosts of many long-dead economists.
January 9, 2012	College Debt and College MajorsA growing percentage of college graduates has pursued degrees that offer no employment prospects to match the cost of college.
October 10, 2011	Competing Economic Theories Agree on DebtPoliticians on both the right and the left suggest that the large stimulus and enormous government spending deficits are in part to blame for the continued ill performance of the U.S. economy.
August 8, 2011	Some Cuts in the Budget DealWe need a long spell of more hiring before we tackle the supposed evils of wealth.
August 1, 2011	Woody Guthrie, Ron Paul and the National DebtWhen a Libertarian and Socialist start agreeing about something, the rest of us ought to listen to them.
July 25, 2011	The Debt Ceiling, Subsidies and the Pain of DefaultWe should end oil subsidies, but this would allow the U.S. to pay off its debt in only 371 more years (if we could stop interest payments).
July 11, 2011	Debt Limits and Budget CutsWithout real expenditure cuts, the cost of borrowing will rise, regardless of what happens to our debt ceiling.
July 19, 2010	To Spend or Cut Taxes, That Is the QuestionIt is uncertainty about federal policy that accompanies it which cripples growth.
July 5, 2010	4th of July OptimismIn truly free societies, it is the dogged optimism of small scale economic actors that propels growth.

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