A few interesting links for September 17th through September 19th:
- AmSpec Blog – AIG Thoughts – "Reuters, estimates that when you combine all of the bailouts and other rescue deals orchestrated in the past year, taxpayers could be on the hook for up to $900 billion. Now, all of those people who are always clamoring for more regulation of the free market can argue that if taxpayers are going to come to the rescue anyway, why don't we place more restrictions on private enterprise to protect taxpayers from huge market failures? On this, McCain and Obama both agree — regulation needs to be overhauled — there's no stopping it now. The only question is how intrusive.
–Beyond that, liberals now can point to this huge rescue of Wall Street, and ask, what will we do for "Main Street"? They'll argue that if we have hundreds of billions of dollars to dole out to Wall Street finance companies that mess up, how come hard working Americans can't get government health care? They can fill in the blank for any government program that choose."
- Blogs Note Yankee Stadium Report, Taxpayer Rip-Off – Runnin' Scared – Village Voice – I'm nearly ashamed that my semi-coherent anti-stadium rant got republished in the Village Voice. I've written better sentences; but the intent was there at least.