I was having a discussion over the weekend about what would have happened if there had been no financial bailout (Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008). We are told that without the bailout we would have suffered “an economic meltdown”. It seems even those who support a free market grudging…

Here is what not to do. Essentially doing the opposite is the correct cause of action. GOVERNMENT DEPRESSION POLICY: LAISSEZ-FAIRE "If government wishes to see a depression ended as quickly as possible, and the economy returned to normal prosperity, what course should it adopt? The first and clear…

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“Does anyone think that the economy could have survived without the bailout?” What does “survived” mean? Thinking that we would have returned back to the stone age is foolish. We would still have the same amount of capital (“tools and machines”) and labor. It is just that capital and labor need to …

I’m no banker, or banking expert. But I’d like to expand a tad on slobodan fon miroslavljevic’s excellent point----namely, that we would still have the same amount of capital (“tools and machines”) and labor. I wish I knew more about banking, so I could understand this stuff better. Anyhow… re: th…

bcyclwutztht, That’s a good point. We have kept in business banks and decision makers who have proved incapable of allocating funds to profitable projects. I made a fallacy when I said “yes depositors would have lost some of the money they deposited” if the banks weren’t bailed out. With or withou…

This may be a cop-out but the stimulus was/is childs-play in comparison to what the fed was doing at the same time. ExampleA ExampleB ExampleC There is more out there, for a while there the Fed was breaking it’s own records on a weekly basis for volume in weekly lending during 2009. So without …

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bcyclwutztht September 13, 2010, 2:23pm 4

check out this thread. I wouldn’t call it ‘definitive’, but there’s some good stuff in there.

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What would have happened with no bailout?

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