Learn about the current crisis

With the current crisis it has become common to criticize capitalism and  free markets, forgetting too rapidly the responsibility of political intervention into market.

IES gives readers the opportunity to examine the current crisis from outside the usual boundaries. It opens a window on the classical liberal or libertarian perspective and gives a new interpretation of the crisis.

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There’s No Easy Way Out of the Bubble: Treasury doesn’t know much about running a ‘reverse auction'. Vernon Smith (Prix Nobel d'Economie 2002), Wall Street Journal.

The Government Is Contributing to the Panic: It’s time to let markets do their messy work,” Jonathan Macey, Wall Street Journal.

Subprime Monetary Policy, Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr., The Freeman. (un article ancien mais qui résume tout à fait la situation et le scauses de la crise actuelle)

Regulators Cannot Avert Next Crisis, Johan Norberg, Australian.

Main Street vs. Wall Street, Arnold Kling, The American.

The Big Bailout — What Next?, Warren Coats.

Improving the Rescue Plan, William Poole, Orange County Register.

The Bailout's Essential Brazenness, Jay Cochran.

Mislead, Daniel J. Mitchell, National Review (Online).

Lies or Ignorance?, Richard W. Rahn, Washington Times.

Bank Loans Have Not 'Dried Up', Alan Reynolds, Forbes.

The Perfect Financial Storm, Jagadeesh Gokhale, Cato.org.

Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns: What's the Difference?, Peter Van Doren.

Why Bailouts Scare Stocks, Alan Reynolds, New York Post.

Bailout-Mania, Jagadeesh Gokhale and Kent Smetters, Forbes.com.

What Price Stability?, James A. Dorn, South China Morning Post.

Too Few Regulations? No, Just Ineffective Ones, Tyler Cowen, New

Washington Is Quietly Repudiating Its Debts, Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr., The Wall Street Journal.York Times Upfront.

Too Big to Fail, or to Survive, William Poole, The New York Times.

The Fed Plays With Fire, Steve H. Hanke, Forbes.

Treasury's Thieves, Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr., New York Post.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Should Be Cut Down and Cut Loose, Alan Reynolds, U.S. News & World Report.

End the Mortgage Duopoly, Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr., The Wall Street Journal.

Greenspan's Bubbles, Steve H. Hanke, FinanceAsia.

Blame the Fed, Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr., Reason.

At the Fed, Nothing Succeeds Like Failure, George A. Selgin.

Panic Time at the Fed, Steve H. Hanke, Forbes.

The Fed Does Right, Alan Reynolds, New York Post.

All news