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Friday, May 15, 2009

Insurers Approved for Government Bailouts


“Six major insurance companies have received preliminary approval to get billions of dollars in fresh capital as part of the government’s financial rescue program, a Treasury Department spokesman confirmed on Thursday.” (New York Times, Friday)

What’s a few billion more?

FEE Timely Classic
“Aid to Owners of Dependent Enterprises” by Charles W. Baird


  • Sheldon Richman is the former editor of The Freeman and a contributor to The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. He is the author of Separating School and State: How to Liberate America's Families and thousands of articles.