Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: laissez faire economics

laissez faire economics stories: 4 news summaries

 Soros to Spend 
 $50M to Reinvent 
 Economics 


Fund manager's think tank charged with reinventing the field

Oct 28, 09 9:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - George Soros has decided to spend $50 million to launch a new think tank charged with reinventing the field of economics, which the Hungarian-American billionaire calls "a dogma whose time has passed." The Institute of New Economic Thinking, whose board members include luminaries such as Joseph Stiglitz and... More »

MORE ABOUT:
economics • Alan Greenspan • George Soros • laissez faire economics • Joseph Stiglitz • financial crisis • Jeffrey Sachs

Nationalize Some Banks:
Greenspan

Ex-Fed head abandons free-market purism, wants temporary move

Feb 18, 09 8:06 AM CST
(Newser) - Alan Greenspan, once famed for his light touch, now says the US may have to temporarily nationalize some banks. The former Fed chairman said in an interview with the Financial Times that some institutions need government ownership to restore liquidity and help shore up the larger financial system. "In... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Federal Reserve • Alan Greenspan • nationalization • liquidity • laissez faire economics • bank failure • Lindsay Graham

Say Goodbye
to the Reagan Revolution

Leaders abandon deregulation for a hands on approach

Jul 25, 08 11:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Reagan Revolution, which ushered in a quarter century of deregulation, looks as if it's taken a stake in the heart, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Fed is offering tens of billions in emergency loans to failing banks, the SEC wants more power to regulate financial institutions, and the... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Ben Bernanke • Federal Reserve • Henry Paulson • Ronald Reagan • laissez faire economics • Reaganomics • deregulation • financial crisis

A Tale of 2 (Rich) Candidates

Edwards, Romney draw different lessons from good fortune

Dec 23, 07 11:52 AM CST
(Newser) - John Edwards and Mitt Romney are both self-made millionaires who used their wealth to climb the political ladder, the New York Times reports. But Edwards is an old-school populist who chalks up the current 1920s-level income gap to Reaganesque policies eroding the middle class, while Romney thinks the key to... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Mitt Romney • John Edwards • wealth • US economy • laissez faire economics • Reaganomics • Election 2008

4 Stories


from our news partners