Stop Intervening in the Economy

Before the House Financial Services Committee, Humphrey Hawkins Hearing, February 25, 2008 Mr. Chairman, We find ourselves mired in the deepest economic crisis to afflict this country since the Great Depression. Yet, despite the failure of all the interventionist efforts to date to do anything to improve the economy, each week seems to bring new proposals for yet more bailouts, more funding facilities, and more of the same discredited Keynesian ideas. There are still relatively few policymakers who understand the roots of the current crisis in the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy. No one in government is willing to take the … Continue reading Stop Intervening in the Economy