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fridayinvegas.blogspot.com - 11/4/2009
A Sit Down With Senior Treasury Officials - Part I
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I received a mysterious email last week from the Treasury, inviting me to a discussion about the Administration's policies and reactions to the economic crisis.  Although the timing sucked for me - it was the Monday following the weekend of my move out of NYC - it was too rare an ...
fridayinvegas.blogspot.com - 29 days ago
A Sit Down With Senior Treasury Officials - Part II
— fridayinvegas.blogspot.com — In Part One of the recap of my trip to the Treasury, I outlined the questions and... answers related to variations on the concept of "extend and pretend" - the refusal to acknowledge bad debts and instead attempt to stick our proverbial policy finger in ... (more) A Sit Down With Senior Treasury Officials - Part II

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Wednesday links: one year later
Abnormal Returns — ... Ritholtz, “The belief in the validity of their models — like the theories they are based upon — is the Achilles heel of the profession.”  (Big Picture) Bloggers go to the Treasury.  Still no plan to really deal with TBTF.  (naked capitalism, Accrued Interest, Financial Armageddon, Aleph Blog, Across the Curve, Kid Dynamite) Why did Nobel Prize winners in Economics choose ...

Kid Dynamite’s World and the Treasury Meeting
Across the Curve — One of the attendees at the sitdown with the Treasury on Monday was the author of a blog which I had not heard of previously,Kid Dynamite’s World. He produces an excellent recap of the meeting which I commend to readers.

My Visit to the US Treasury, Part 3
The Aleph Blog — ... Journalism Review Credit Slips Prudent Investor Brad Delong Felix Salmon If you were in the Treasury’s shoes, who else would you have invited?  E-mail me, or put it in the comments.  Tomorrow I will mention who I thought would have been good additional guests. Continuing Coverage Here is a list of posts to date on the meeting: Friday in Vegas (Kid Dynamite): “A Sit Down With Senior Treasury Officials – Part I” Naked Capitalism: ...

The wildly optimistic view of Treasury’s handling of the crisis
naked capitalism — ... I was reading Kid Dynamite’s account of the recent Treasury – Finance Blogger meeting after having read a bunch of others (see them all in ...

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Finacial blogger impressions — Angry Bear
Rdan Steve Waldman at Interfluidity has written an impression of The financial blogger meeting with senior Treasury officials of last Monday. He also provides links to other main posts by those who attended. It is worth a visit.
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