Roland Burris is Blagojevich Senate Appointee

Roland Burris is the former Illinois Attorney General that Illinois Governor Rod R ... University Carbondale. He then was an exchange student and studied International Law at the University ... of the Currency for the U.S. Treasury Department. From 1964 to 1973, he worked at Continental Illinois [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 20:07:35

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NOW Are We In Recession?

Jeffrey Frankel is Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government ... international finance, currencies, monetary and fiscal policy, commodity prices, regional blocs, and global [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 12:00:50

The Global Credit Crisis as History

Barry Eichengreen, an economic historian at the University of California at Berkeley whose scholarly work showed how the international affection for ... and elsewhere , have resisted stimulative policies that might produce a falling exchange rate ... drew other lessons: “the importance of avoiding competitive currency depreciation and of keeping [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 12:00:00

“Swap” Inventor Blames Regulators for Financial Crisis

David Swensen, of Yale University Endowment investment management fame discusses the current state of the market and derivatives trading ... he’s dismayed by how other traders have so abused his invention and the “complete and utter failure ... for IBM and the World Bank to trade, or swap, payments in different currencies. It was a key development [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 22:12:51

Economic Turmoil Calls Not for Big Government but Economic Freedom

Yesterday, after touching on the current economic problems while speaking at George Mason University, Obama outlined his solution: More government. More regulations. More one-size-fits-all, top-down programs. Paid for by taxpayers and the printing of fiat currency (inflation, anyone??). Fortunately not all have abandoned truth and reason [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 16:20:56

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