Tag Archives: GSEs

“Deprivatization”

08-09-09 – 12:00:am

“Shorter” Krugman:
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shouldn’t have been private, so even though they were just nationalized let’s say they were “deprivatized.” And besides, Bush isn’t Thatcher.
And Putin “deprivatized” Yukos.

by m3t00 | in economics, government, language | comments (0)

F-ing students!

08-07-26 – 10:26:am

The headline for Ron Lieber’s “Danger Lurks When Shopping for Student Loans” (NYT, 26 July, ’08) is neutered in a typical way: it should read “Predatory Student Loansters *#@% Your Children for Shopping Around.” This isn’t a diffuse, inevitable danger, and it definitely isn’t “lurking”: it’s a morass of meticulously developed analyses and techniques implemented [...]

by m3t00 | in education, finance, government | Also tagged | comments (1)