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March 31, 2009

Blood Red Ink: "The U.S. government and the Federal Reserve have spent, lent or guaranteed $12.8 trillion, an amount that approaches the value of everything produced in the country last year, to stem the longest recession since the 1930s."
— Ace

Some, however, applaud spending our entire yearly economic output on bailouts:

The combined commitment has increased by 73 percent since November, when Bloomberg first estimated the funding, loans and guarantees at $7.4 trillion.
The comparison to GDP serves the useful purpose of underscoring how extraordinary the efforts have been to stabilize the credit markets, said Dana Johnson, chief economist for Comerica Bank in Dallas.
Everything the Fed, the FDIC and the Treasury do doesnt always work out right but back in October we came within an eyelash of having a truly horrible collapse of our financial system, said Johnson, a former Fed senior economist. They used their creativity to help the worst-case scenario from unfolding and Im awfully glad they did it.

That has yet to be determined.

And read "Government Motors" from Cato:

...Wagoner was perceived as an obstacle to whatever plans the administration has for GM. And thats the real source of concern. If getting these companies back on their feet is the objective, a bankruptcy judge can make a determination pretty quickly about the viability of the firms and the steps necessary to get there. But if the objective is something more grandiose, such as transforming the industry into a model of green production, government oversight and close scrutiny of operations will be necessary. CEOs must be compliant and pliant. It is worth noting that a return to profitability and the metamorphosis of the industry according to a government script work at cross purposes.

Ding ding ding ding.

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