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Money, Power And Wall Street On Frontline
Watch the three hours and 47 minutes of four total shows here. I love PBS Frontline. I think it tends to be fair and to be journalistically solid. The show does have a definite pro-regulation bias. Whether it is tackling … Continue reading
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Tagged cell phone towers, fannie mae and freddie mac, goldman sachs, pbs frontline, pbs show, u s treasury
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Who’s To Blame For The Housing Crash?
Dennis Prager recommends these three books: Architects of Ruin: How big government liberals wrecked the global economy—and how they will do it again if no one stops them by Peter Schweizer, Paul Sperry’s The Great American Bank Robbery: The Unauthorized … Continue reading
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Tagged boom and bust, bush administrations, community reinvestment act, Dennis Prager, department of housing and urban development, fannie mae and freddie mac, federal housing administration, government liberals, peter j wallison, tom sowell
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Boom and Bust: Financial Cycles and Human Prosperity
From Dennis Prager.com: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 Radio Show H1: Such Things Tragedies Are Made of Prager H1: A teenage boy does something very stupid in Israel and 42 people die. Countless lives are impacted… Dennis talks to John Eastman, … Continue reading
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What Caused Our Recession?
On Dennis Prager’s radio show today, economist Tom Sowell said: “What got us into this was that mortgages started to default and there was a whole domino effect going through the whole financial system because people had bought these mortgage-backed … Continue reading
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Tagged chris dodd, Dennis Prager, fannie mae and freddie mac, fha loans, mortgage backed securities, tom sowell
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Steve Forbes Discusses His New Book – ‘How Capitalism Will Save Us’
On Dec. 14, 2009, Dennis Prager interviewed Steve Forbes about his new book, “How Capitalism Will Save Us.” Steve: “When you look at economic disasters, it wasn’t some sudden failure of free people and free markets that caused the disasters, … Continue reading
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What Caused The Housing Boom And Bust?
Dennis Prager talked to economist Tom Sowell, 79, on Dec. 15, 2009 about his new book “The Housing Boom and Bust”. Dennis: “Who caused this bust?” Tom: “Government. The people who were forced directly to make the bad loans under … Continue reading
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Tagged community reinvestment act, community reinvestment act 1977, Dennis Prager, fannie mae and freddie mac, income minorities, tom sowell
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Why Does Real Estate Cost So Much In Coastal California?
I’m reading this new book by economist Thomas Sowell — The Housing Boom and Bust. From 2000 to 2005, the average home price in the United States increased by one-third. Millions of Americans began using their homes as ATMs, getting … Continue reading
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Tagged boom and bust, economist thomas sowell, fannie mae, fannie mae and freddie mac, financial qualifications, Thomas Sowell
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The Housing Boom
Check out the book on Amazon.com. Economist Thomas Sowell appeared on Dennis Prager’s radio show May 27: Tom: If the results weren’t so serious, all this would make a great Gilbert & Sullivan musical, with all the mutually contradictory statements … Continue reading
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Maybe The Bailout Worked?
I want to grind my teeth every time I think about the U.S. government bailing out banks, but this Washington Post article says the thing has worked: Sure, you can question how the money was used — many of us … Continue reading
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Tagged credit default swaps, fannie mae, fannie mae and freddie mac, financial meltdown, lehman brothers, orderly wind
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Dennis Prager Interviews Financial Columnist Robert Samuelson
Click here to listen. It’s 20 minutes in. July 14, 2008. Robert says the government is bailing out Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac. "They are providers of mortgage credit. If you are as old as I am, you remember the days … Continue reading
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Tagged Dennis Prager, different financial institutions, fannie mae and freddie mac, financial columnist, home mortgage loans, robert samuelson
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