by Dan Mitchell | Sep 11, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs
Last year, after seeing former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson trying to defend the TARP bailout he designed, I wrote that he should go away in shame. After all, even former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker recognized there was a much better, non-corrupt, way of...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 1, 2011 | Bailouts, Blogs
In a recent post, I explained some of the reasons why Greece should not get another bailout. I cover some of the same points in this Bloomberg interview, but my favorite part is when I state that it’s time for the Greek people to realize “they can’t loot and mooch...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 15, 2011 | Bailouts, Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Ben Bernanke is definitely trying hard to overtake Arthur Burns and G. William Miller (those wonderful guys who helped give us the 1970s) as the worst Fed Chairman of the modern era. But unlike Burns and Miller, who “earned” their poor reputations with bad monetary...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 9, 2011 | Bailouts, Blogs
I’ve finally set up a youtube page for my TV interviews. Here’s my discussion with Judge Napolitano about crony capitalism, General Motors, and the bizarre case of a car company CEO endorsing an increase in the gas tax. The most important point of the interview, at...
by Dan Mitchell | May 31, 2011 | Bailouts, Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Way back in February of 2010, I wrote that a Greek bailout would be a failure. Not surprisingly, the parasites at the International Monetary Fund and the political elite from other European nations ignored my advice and gave tens of billions of dollars to Greece’s...
