Tyler Cowen makes the important point that when it comes to nationalization, nationalizing one bank isn’t the problem. The problem is that once you nationalize, or even start talking seriously about ...

I had a fascinating talk with a government official who will, sadly, have to go unnamed and undescribed. I wanted to know if the rumors are true and many in government see nationalization of the banks ...

America remains deeply conflicted about federal regulators’ crisis response. By Neil Irwin The loan portfolio consists mostly of commercial real estate loans in Ireland and Britain but also includes ...

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In the past week a number of boldfaced names including Sen. Lindsey Graham, Harvard economist Greg Mankiw, economist of the moment Nouriel Roubini, and ex-Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan have suggested ...

Talk of "nationalizing the banks" is in the air again this week, as President Obama hits the road to sell his recovery plan and Tim Geithner, the new chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission ...

Nobel prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman said Sunday that bank nationalization was "as American as apple pie" during a round-table discussion on "This Week" with George ...

The expropriation of private assets in Argentina and Bolivia are a stark reminder of the risk of doing business in developing markets. Nationalization of the political sort—as opposed to pragmatism ...

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In the United States, where the free market has long been exalted as the supreme engine of prosperity, a peculiar irony is taking shape. On August 22, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced that ...

DURING the Great War, the force of circumstances led the belligerent states to intervene directly in industry, in order to safeguard the production of essential supplies for war purposes. In some ...