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At its most basic level, the role of government is to do for us what we cannot do for ourselves.  As individuals we obviously cannot monitor the safety practices of a gigantic multinational oil company drilling off our shore.  We ...Read more

“Cost of Seizing Fannie and Freddie Surges for Taxpayers” screams one of the headlines on the front page of last Sunday’s New York Times.  Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have already cost us taxpayers $145.9 billion since September 2008, and ...Read more

Last Thursday’s newspapers were full of news.  Above the Wall Street Journal’s crease, for example, readers learned about violence in Greece, where three people were killed in a firebomb attack during a national strike that was ...Read more

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) made two important announcements last Friday.  The first continues to make headline news across the country.  It informed the public that the SEC is charging Goldman Sachs with defrauding several customers, and doing so ...Read more

Barack Obama became America’s 44th President in troubled economic times. On the home front, his “conservative” predecessor had authorized spending that created a deficit of $l.3 trillion. Real-estate markets, stock markets, and financial markets collapsed. Advanced economies run on ...Read more