3 Articles

Sunday, March 29, 2009
Recipe for Failure? The Auto Bailout and the Failure of the New Deal's Economic Recovery Program
(22 comments) A specialist in business history argues that the Obama administration is repeating critical New Deal mistakes that extended the Great Depression.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008
The Auto Bailout Bill's Defeat and the Politics of Class Warfare
(6 comments) The Senate defeat of the Detroit bailout bill reveals the cynical conservative politics of class warfare. In this new senatorial politics unionized workers are blamed for the failure of the bailout of American automakers, while the authors of the defeat cloak themselves as defenders of the taxpayers. In the meantime financial companies rake in billions of taxpayer bailout dollars without any legislative check.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Bailout the Big Three and Revitalize the Economy
(7 comments) The Big Three need to be bailed out. A properly structured government rescue package can provide a template for economic recovery. It can create American jobs, improve energy independence, protect the environment, and re-establish a sense of fairness and justice in government economic policy. Here's how.