All Posts Tagged With: "government"

Asian Governments Signal More Interest Rate Cuts Coming Soon

With inflation slowing in Asia, governments are signaling they are open to cutting interest rates to buffer their economies from the global credit dearth. 

A handful of Asian countries – Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and…

6Nov2008 | Money Morning | 1 comment | Continued

Government Grapples With Details of $700 Billion Bailout

President George Bush yesterday (Monday) urged congressional legislators to put aside differences and work together for a speedy passage of a bill that would pledge $700 billion in taxpayer money to fight the current financial crisis - the largest bailout…

23Sep2008 | Managing Money | 0 comments | Continued

Corporate Governance Runs Up The White Flag

Your Federal Government Is Now An Insurance Shareholder?

Well, American International Group (NYSE - AIG) certainly went south faster than we expected. Rather than rising to fill the gap before plunging, it instead plunged straight away. Will there be a bounce?…

18Sep2008 | Oxbury Research | 2 comments | Continued

GRAND THEFT SOCIETY

A core problem with government is that its managers believe that all reality will conform to their wishes if they issue the right orders, pass the right laws, and put the right people in charge. Reality resists this simple-minded approach;…

4Jul2008 | Daily Reckoning | 0 comments | Continued

A Plan to Grant the Fed Additional Powers Will Only Exacerbate Current U.S. Woes

Throughout history, governments have always used crises to justify blatant power grabs. All too often, the “expanded government powers” that resulted from the moves remain in place - even after the crisis subsides.

This tendency has come into sharp focus here in…

24Jun2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued
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