Comments on: Stiglitz Stinks https://barelyablog.com/stiglitz-stinks/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Roger Chaillet https://barelyablog.com/stiglitz-stinks/comment-page-1/#comment-8185 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:33:55 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=10663#comment-8185 Myron needs to know that it’s called socializing risk, and privatizing gain.

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By: Vic Jones https://barelyablog.com/stiglitz-stinks/comment-page-1/#comment-8165 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:46:28 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=10663#comment-8165 Thomas E. Woods’ Meltdown (you can order it on mises.org.) has an excellent section of what he called the “culprits” behind the bubble that burst during Bush’s term. He discusses Fannie and Freddie along with the Community Reinvestment Act. Although the major culprit, according to Woods, is the Federal Reserve, he delivers some good dunce caps to supporters of the two GSE’s, particularly to those who categorize them as the private sector. .

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By: Roy Bleckert https://barelyablog.com/stiglitz-stinks/comment-page-1/#comment-8164 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:19:56 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=10663#comment-8164 GSE = Gonna Sink Everyone

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By: M. B. Moon https://barelyablog.com/stiglitz-stinks/comment-page-1/#comment-8163 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:36:03 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=10663#comment-8163 The liberty cat may be out of the bag. Both Demoncraps and Repugnicans now realize that Liberty equals prosperity but they will only desire the minimum.

This depression, there will be many voices that will not allow the blame to be shifted from the central bankers.

May God grant that Ron Paul destroy the third central bank of the United States.

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By: My RON PAUL i https://barelyablog.com/stiglitz-stinks/comment-page-1/#comment-8162 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:48:53 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=10663#comment-8162 READ http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2002/cr071602.htm 7/15/2002:

EXCERPTS: “Mr. Speaker, I rise to introduce the Free Housing Market Enhancement Act. This legislation restores a free market in housing by repealing special privileges for housing-related government sponsored enterprises (GSEs)….
….. the line of credit distorts the allocation of capital. More importantly, the line of credit…on behalf of the government to engage in a massive unconstitutional and immoral income transfer from working Americans to holders of GSE debt…..Ironically, by transferring the risk of a widespread mortgage default, the government increases the likelihood of a painful crash in the housing market….capital is diverted from its most productive use into housing…. the boom in housing prices cannot last forever. When housing prices fall, homeowners will experience difficulty as their equity is wiped out….. the Federal Reserve… purchasing GSE debt and pumping liquidity into the housing market.. cannot hold off the inevitable drop in the housing market forever…postponing the necessary but painful market corrections will only deepen the inevitable fall. The more people invested in the market, the greater the effects across the economy when the bubble bursts….. it is time for Congress to act… before the bubble bursts and taxpayers are once again forced to bail out investors….”

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