Think tanks
Cry Wolf Quotes
The CRA, by encouraging loosening underwriting standards, may have contributed to the massive increase in foreclosure rates.
The Dodd bill would push the government into the business of dictating the terms at which consumers and businesses can contract. This has nothing to do with protecting consumers and everything to do with replacing consumer preferences with bureaucrats’ choices.
Maryland legislators’ good intentions do not change the fact that living wages result in job loss, particularly among the less skilled and less educated.
A closer look at the unemployment [nearly 10 percent unemployment rate] suggests that minimum wage laws also deserve a big share of the blame….businesses are not charities and that they only create jobs when they think a worker will generate net revenue. Higher minimum wages, needless to say, are especially destructive for people with poor work skills and limited work experience.
