Comments on: Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse

By: » The Folly of Financial Reform - Big Government

» The Folly of Financial Reform - Big Government — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:16:43 +0000

[...] advantage of hapless borrowers, the fact of the matter is that in every aspect of this crisis government was the major enabler. Ironically all financial reform centers around giving government more [...]

By: Thomas Clabaugh

Thomas Clabaugh — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:05:23 +0000

Bill Smith…..AMEN.

By: What caused the economic and housing meltdown? « Wsmith1213’s Blog

What caused the economic and housing meltdown? « Wsmith1213’s Blog — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:53:06 +0000

[...] http://www.thefreemanonline.org/book-reviews/meltdown-a-free-market-look-at-why-the-stock-market-col... [...]

By: Bill Smith

Bill Smith — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:26:05 +0000

@sean – actually the author blames on the changes made to the community reinvestment act in 1998, you can watch moron andrew coumo talk about it in the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivmL-lXNy64

GEEZ, the LEFT wing will believe anything these days as long as it doesn’t interfere with their COMMUNIST fantasies.

Comment by Sean on 16 October 2009:

So let me get this straight. The author is blaming the largest economic downturn since the Great Depression on a 32 year-old affirmative action law in banking and a 3% decline in interest rates after 9/11.

Geez, the right wing will believe anything these days as long as it doesn’t interfere with their free market fantasies.

By: Reasonandjest.com » Meltdown

Reasonandjest.com » Meltdown — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:06:37 +0000

[...] Freeman Online has a review of Thomas Woods’s book, Meltdown: A Free Market Look At Why The Stock Market Collapsed, The [...]

By: Mario Rizzo: “What a ABCT-moron Tom Palmer is”

Mario Rizzo: “What a ABCT-moron Tom Palmer is” — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:57:22 +0000

[...] by basically all in our movement and in Austrian econonics–from Steve Horwitz’s exuberant review (”Thomas Woods’s Meltdown is a marvel of writing and publishing. Having arrived on shelves [...]

By: John C. Randolph

John C. Randolph — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:47:03 +0000

The author is blaming the largest economic downturn since the Great Depression on a 32 year-old affirmative action law in banking and a 3% decline in interest rates after 9/11.

You haven’t read the book, obviously. Woods blames the collapse on the Fed policies that create the bubbles. This time it happened to be in the real estate market. Previous ones have been the dot com boom and the latin american debt bubbles.

Geez, the right wing will believe anything these days as long as it doesn’t interfere with their free market fantasies.

The soviets regulated their economy as much as any pinko could hope for. Didn’t keep them from collapsing, did it?

-jcr

By: Speedmaster

Speedmaster — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:57:40 +0000

Outstanding book, recommended. I reviewed it here, as well.
http://bit.ly/4inQtG

By: Mises, Hayek, and the Meltdown « LewRockwell.com Blog

Mises, Hayek, and the Meltdown « LewRockwell.com Blog — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:36:13 +0000

[...] thanks to Prof. Steve Horwitz for this generous review of Meltdown that appeared in The Freeman, the publication of the Foundation for Economic [...]

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:49:42 +0000

Geez, the right wing will believe anything these days as long as it doesn’t interfere with their free market fantasies.