Fannie Mae reports third quarter loss of $18.9 billion and requests another $15 billion in taxpayer funds. Another government enterprise comes back to the well for more, with no end in sight. Bloomberg has a summary of the results here . FNM was the organization that couldn’t do accounting properly...
My recent post on the US Hyperinflation Coming ties in nicely with the note provided below by Chris Coyne. He quotes Beaulier and Boettke who argue (along with Adam Smith ) that facing up to our debt problems now is the proper course. In effect, they argue for the Zimbabwe solution now as opposed to...
The US economy has been in crisis since 2008 and despite optimistic statements by officials and commentators there are no fundamental signs that the crisis will end in the foreseeable future. Current economic data suggests a number of diverging and unsustainable trends. The US economy has suffered a...