“[The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins. Having rolled back the landmark economic reforms of the sixties (the war on poverty) and those of the thirties (labor law, agricultural price supports, banking regulation), its leaders now turn their guns on the accomplishments of the earliest years of progressivism (Woodrow Wilson's estate tax; Theodore Roosevelt's anti-trust measures). With a little more effort, the backlash may well repeal the entire twentieth century.” YearsWellsMayLittlesWarSchoolLawTurnsPrayerEffortLeaderPovertySupportEconomicCenturyTaxesGunLaborReformAccomplishmentRegulationSixtyEstatesBankingTwentieth CenturyWilsonLandmarksBacklashProgressivismTheodoreWar On PovertyDustbinLabor LawsEconomic ReformsEstate Taxes Author:Thomas Frank
“It's important that the American people understand that President has proposed and passed this stimulus plan not as the end-all and be-all to our economic woes but as our bridge over troubled water until we get the finance system, the banking system working again.” PeopleImportantEndsPresidentWaterPlansEconomicFinanceBridgesWoeBankingStimulusBanking SystemTroubled Waters Author:William J. Clinton
“Central banks have gotten out of the central banking business and into the central planning business, meaning that they are devoted to raising up-if they can-economic growth and employment through the dubious means of suppressing interest rates and printing money. The nice thing about gold is that you can't print it.” IfsMeanGrowthInterestMoneyNiceEconomicGoldRatePlanningEmploymentPrintDevotedBankingEconomic GrowthPrintingNice ThingsInterest RateCentral BanksDubiousSuppressingCentral BankingCentral PlanningPrinting Money Author:James Grant
“Much of the shadow banking sector, a major contributor to the economic crisis, was also only possible because of taxhaven secrecy.” EconomicMajorsShadowCrisisBankingSecrecyContributorsEconomic Crisis Author:Vince Cable