Green Options » wall street crash http://greenoptions.com/tag/wall-street-crash Posts tagged 'wall street crash' Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:10:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en To Bailout or Not to Bailout: Is Free Market Economics Sustainable? http://inspiredeconomist.com/2008/09/22/to-bailout-or-not-to-bailout-is-free-market-economics-sustainable/ http://inspiredeconomist.com/2008/09/22/to-bailout-or-not-to-bailout-is-free-market-economics-sustainable/#comments Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:10:49 +0000 Reenita Malhotra http://inspiredeconomist.com/2008/09/22/to-bailout-or-not-to-bailout-is-free-market-economics-sustainable/ Wall StreetIn view of the current Wall Street crisis, America’s credibility as a bastion of free markets has come under the radar. The Fed’s recent bailout of AIG, Fannie and Freddie are perceived by many as a free market detour.

The government’s latest bailout news involves a plan to make the biggest intervention in the financial markets since the 1930s. Central to this plan would be a mechanism to bad assets off the balance sheets of financial companies or instead perhaps to create a federal insurance for investors in the money market funds. Additionally, the Securities and Exchange Commission is getting ready to propose a temporary ban on short selling financial stocks.

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]]> http://inspiredeconomist.com/2008/09/22/to-bailout-or-not-to-bailout-is-free-market-economics-sustainable/feed/ America’s Market Bailout : Some Figures For The Weekend http://inspiredeconomist.com/2008/09/19/americas-market-bailout-some-figures-for-the-weekend/ http://inspiredeconomist.com/2008/09/19/americas-market-bailout-some-figures-for-the-weekend/#comments Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:55:52 +0000 Chris Milton http://inspiredeconomist.com/2008/09/19/americas-market-bailout-some-figures-for-the-weekend/ A few details are starting to emerge about the proposed “bail out plan” of the US Government. While legislators wrestle with the finer details, here are a few figures to juggle with over the weekend.

So far, $200bn has been spent saving Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with another $300bn to prop up the Federal Housing Administration.

On top of that, there’s with an additional $69bn to buy up the companies’ discount notes, $29bn to keep Bear Sterns alive and $85bn to keep AIG going. That’s another $183bn, taking the running total to $683bn.

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