http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/10/07/a-failure-of-regulation/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Fri, 17 May 2013 18:49:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/10/07/a-failure-of-regulation/#comment-60445 TerryP Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:00:37 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=2950#comment-60445 The sad thing is even when the accounting frauds happened and the regulators started doing their jobs, Congress (mainly Democrats) lashed out at the regulators telling them to essentially to go back to doing nothing because Fannie and Freddie are just fine. They are doing exactly what we want them to do. I have seen some of the Youtubes on when this happended and it is almost pathetic to see the regulators getting their butts chewed for finally doing their jobs. And we wonder why we are in the mess we are today.

]]> http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/10/07/a-failure-of-regulation/#comment-60443 The Liberty Papers »Blog Archive » No Repeat Of The 1930s Here! Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:34:22 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=2950#comment-60443 [...] with last Friday’s $700B Treasury bailout of toxic debt, followed by yesterday’s $900B+ short-term lending backstop, markets still weren’t [...]

]]> http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/10/07/a-failure-of-regulation/#comment-60435 Government regulation to the rescue? « Blunt Object Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:02:45 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=2950#comment-60435 [...] A Failure of Regulation (The Liberty Papers) (Rather than link directly to the source article, I’m linking to TLP’s article for its excellent links on regulatory capture and so forth.) [...]

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