by Dan Mitchell | Mar 14, 2026 | Blogs, Monetary Policy
I have three-video primers on price gouging and public choice, so I may as well do the same thing for the 2008 financial crisis (click here for Part I). We’ll start with a video from Peter Wallison, which correctly notes how housing subsidies...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 7, 2025 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by the Washington Examiner on June 3, 2025. Although Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two government-backed mortgage giants with a taxpayer-funded safety net, helped crash the economy in 2008, the Biden administration in its final days quietly laid the...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 23, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs
Perverse housing subsidies from two corrupt government-created entities, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, played a huge role in causing the 2008 financial meltdown. Yes, bad monetary policy from the Federal Reserve provided the fuel, but...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 16, 2020 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I have Republican friends who don’t trust Michael Bloomberg because he switched parties and Democratic friends who don’t trust him for the same reason. I tell all of them that it’s more important to focus on his policy agenda rather than his partisan identification....
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 29, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs
The 2008 financial crisis was largely the result of bad government policy, including subsidies for the housing sector from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. This video is 10 years old, but it does a great job of explaining the damaging role of those two government-created...
