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As Public Policy Fixes Are Impossible, Focus on Individual Solutions

Divisive politics and the Tyranny of the Majority guarantee policy fixes will fail or be symbolic only.Though I am drawn to public policy questions, I always regret proposing any policy fixes. Why? For a number of reasons:

1. It’s safer and easier to be a critic or doomsdayer. Finding flaws in policies addressing a diverse populace, be it a town, city, state or nation, is like shooting fish in a [...]

The CBO estimates that interest rates on 3-month bills and 10-year notes will reach 5.0% and 5.9%, respectively, by 2020.

The Treasury, Fed and CBO don’t include the trillions of debt guaranteed for FNMA, Freddie Mac, AIG, Citi, Bank of America, JP Morgan and the 20/80 addition guarantee policy of the FDIC. On top of that the Fed has $2.4 Trillion of junk bonds they bought from the banks (they, for some absurd reason, don’t have to disclose who they are and what, they [...]