For instance, check out this headline from a piece from several days ago on Politico: “Obama Would Regulate New ‘Bubbles.’”
Yes, you read that right. “Bubbles” just occur spontaneously. They have no cause or explanation. We need government to identify and destroy them.
All Posts Tagged With: "Alan Greenspan"
Obama Insists That Not Only Can We Detect Bubbles We Can Also Deflate Them
Alan Greenspan Says “the Seeds of a Bottoming” Becoming Visible
Speaking to a National Association of Realtors summit, Greenspan said there were reasons to believe that bulging inventories of unsold homes were dwindling and that should bring some stability to prices.
May 15th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
Bernanke Says Economy Recovery Likely This Year
Can the feds now fix the trouble they never saw coming? Can the people who ran banks into the ground now run the banks that will help finance the recovery?
May 7th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Government Intervention for Economy Makes Things Worse
In the wake of this change of heart on the part of our leaders, Americans found themselves bombarded with a predictable and relentless refrain: the free market economy has failed.
May 6th, 2009 | Thomas E. Woods, Jr. | 2 comments | Continued
Perhaps This Recession Will Be One for the Ages After All
In today’s Daily Reckoning, we’ll review the contradictory claims. We’ll also tell you what Alan Greenspan whispered in our ear the other night about gold, inflation, and the bond market. And we’ll ask more stupid questions about government.
April 16th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 13 comments | Continued
Traders Sell Bank Stocks Due to Goldman Sachs Surprise
What we wonder is why Goldman needed to be made whole at all if its exposure to AIG was hedged? And why did Goldman get paid US$14 billion for its securities when the market value was around $8 billion?
April 15th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 36 comments | Continued
Investors and Their Lost Money
Our guess is that the blood will flow…but later. It’s still fairly early in the correction. Investors have lost money – lots of it. Homeowners have lost their homes. Working stiffs and Wall Street sharpies have both lost their jobs. But the violence-prone yahoos still expect something for nothing. The bailout plans will work, they believe. The government will step in and save them.
March 30th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 4 comments | Continued
Greenspan and His Demented Federal Reserve Chairmanship
He is reported to have said, “Given the decoupling of monetary policy from long-term mortgage rates, accelerating the path of monetary tightening that the Fed pursued in 2004-2005 could not have prevented the housing bubble.” Hahahaha!
March 24th, 2009 | Mogambo Guru | 1 comment | Continued
The Outrage Over AIG and Their Bailout Money
Under pressure, AIG revealed what it did with the bailout money. It came as no shock to us to discover Goldman Sachs at the top of the list of recipients. Goldman’s main man was in the room with the feds – the only representative of Wall Street – when the decision was made to rescue AIG. What’s more, the feds’ main man at the time – Hank Paulson – also used to be the top honcho at Goldman.
March 18th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Commodities and China
China doesn’t even need to grow wealthier in order to use more commodities. Like her saffron neighbor to the South, India, her population is so large, and growing by such huge numbers, she struggles just to keep up. One percent population growth is not a lot. But one percent of 1.3 billion is 13 million people – equal to America’s entire jobless population. And that, of course, is an increase that happens every year.
March 13th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
The Trouble With Banks
Meanwhile, there is not much we can tell you that you don’t already know about the global rout in stocks. Wall Street is at twelve- year lows. The FTSE is at six-year lows. And here in Australia the market has opened lower than its five-year low, as you’d expect after such a wretched overnight performance on global markets.
March 3rd, 2009 | Dan Denning | 6 comments | Continued
Where is the Committee to Save the World?
Greenspan’s successor wants to get his picture on the cover of TIME just as much as his former boss did. He’s determined to beat the bust. If he can do it, TIME will probably give him the Man of the Year award. If he can’t, he’ll probably get the ‘Schmuck of the Year’ award from us…
February 23rd, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
The United States: The Largest Ponzi Scheme in the World
The United States is now the largest Ponzi scheme in the world. The only way to pay off the old lenders is to bring in new ones – or run the printing press. That’s all lenders have to worry about – inflation. And for the moment, prices are going down. They’ll keep going down too – until they go up…
February 20th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 6 comments | Continued
A Nation of Patsies…in a World of Hurt
In the beginning, the U.S. government was specifically limited in what it could do. Now, very little remains that it can’t do. But in all matters – big or small…torturing people or taking their money – government leaders must pretend to be acting in the national interest. It’s a low-down, dirty business that usually attracts people of the same sort. People like George W. Bush and Joseph Biden…people with no sense or no principles – or neither. People who don’t know a lie when they hear it or…don’t mind telling one. That’s why we’re sorry to seem Obama in the trade; he seems like such a nice fellow…
January 20th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 3 comments | Continued
Alan Greenspan’s “Smallish” Injections
One argument advanced in the attempted exoneration of Greenspan is that he didn’t really pump that much money into the credit markets. For example, popular blogger Megan McArdle writes, “Both right wing Austrians and many liberals have a common theory of how all this happened: Alan Greenspan dunnit. The mechanisms by which he accomplished his foul task are different in the two cases, of course. Read on…
December 17th, 2008 | The Daily Reckoning | 3 comments | Continued
