It’s Like a Compulsion
By L. Russell Allen - Dec 16th, 2008 at 3:56 pmI hate to post two days in a row about something that appeared on Human Events, but are you reading Human Events ? It is…
Posts Tagged ‘bailout’
Now Clap Your Hands If You Got a Bank Roll
By Dylan Matthews - Dec 15th, 2008 at 1:28 pmRemember the executive compensation provisions in the financial bailout? Remember how they were a huuuuge concession on the part of the Bush administration? Well…
Congress…
Higher Ed Groups Ask for Relief for Students
By Pedro de la Torre - Dec 11th, 2008 at 2:34 pmToday, several consumer, higher education, and student groups (including Campus Progress) sent a letter to Congress asking that assistance for students be included in the…
I Don’t Really Care if Auto CEOs Fly in Private Jets
By Matt Zeitlin - Nov 20th, 2008 at 1:31 pmThere’s been a lot of controversy over the Big 3 automobile companies’ CEOs flying to Washington on private jets and then asking for huge sums…
A Really Reasonable Reptile An Awesomely Articulate Amphibian
By Jesse Singal - Oct 9th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
This is one smart frog:
(UPDATE: Pushback’s favorite libertarian commenter, The Waterman, pointed out in comments that frogs are amphibians, not reptiles, which forced me…
“In the Red”-baiting
By Dylan Matthews - Oct 8th, 2008 at 5:15 pmYou know the world is changing when Tom Friedman is being a little too critical of a conservative politician, and on her opposition to tax…
More on Greed
By Jesse Singal - Oct 7th, 2008 at 5:43 pmThis time from The New York Times:
[T]he former A.I.G. executive who led the London-based division whose implosion is largely blamed for the insurance giant’s…
Pathological Tone Deafness
By Jesse Singal - Oct 7th, 2008 at 3:55 pmThe Washington Post:
Less than a week after the federal government offered an $85 billion bailout to insurance giant AIG, the company held a week-long…
Another Terrifying–but Illuminating- Report On How Screwed We Are
By Bradley Portnoy - Oct 7th, 2008 at 2:41 pmIf you’re anything like me, you’re trying and generally failing to understand what the hell is going on with the economy. The terms that are…
The Optimism Level Needs to Grow, Too
By Daniel Strauss - Oct 6th, 2008 at 4:23 pmYeah, the economy is indeed in trouble, and that trouble is leaking onto the rest of the world. But Jim Manzi at The American Scene…
And Down We Go
By Matt Zeitlin - Oct 6th, 2008 at 11:51 amSo, despite President Bush signing the bailout package, the economy had a bad day in two distinct areas. One was another sharp dip in the…
The Financial District of Main Street is Wall Street
By Daniel Strauss - Oct 6th, 2008 at 10:15 amLike Matt and then Ezra , I also think the Main Street vs. Wall Street phrasing is wrong. If there’s one thing the country’s economic…
The Low Spin Zone
By Dylan Matthews - Oct 3rd, 2008 at 3:00 pmFor reasons that escape me, Barney Frank agreed to appear on The O’Reilly Factor to discuss economic policy. And by “discuss economic policy”, I mean…
BREAKING: House Passes Bailout
By Matt Zeitlin - Oct 3rd, 2008 at 1:55 pmAfter four days of credit contraction, bank failure, skyrocketing unemployment and dipping stock markets, the House approved the bailout bill today. It won 263-171, with…
More on the Meltdown and Unemployment
By Matt Zeitlin - Oct 3rd, 2008 at 1:18 pmIn the wake of the bailout failing, many were asking just how the declining fortunes of Wall Street would affect the rest of the country.…
