Le site de Reason publie l'avis de 10 économistes sur les mesures de sauvetage décidées aux Etats-Unis. Morceaux choisis:

The plans are creating a bad precedent—perhaps the worst precedent since the New Deal.

Brian Caplan

The bailout is a terrible idea. It transfers a huge amount of wealth to people who do not deserve it. It will generate enormous incentives for creative bookkeeping as the investment houses and banks try to rid themselves of any assets they do not want.

Jeffrey A. Miron

This is socialization of the banking industry, plain and simple.

Frederic Sautet

The actions taken over the last year and the pending bailout of Wall Street have not and will not help. They have made and will make the economic situation much worse. This is the exact same approach that took us into the Great Depression. There is no reason to expect the correct solution from the same people who created the crisis in the first place and who until very recently thought the economy was strong and that there was little or no chance of recession.

Mark Thornton