econbrowser.com - 1/25/2009
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If everybody wants a bailout, that's a good indication that we're making some mistakes.
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A Great Sentence
EconLog: Library of Economics and Liberty —
... | Permanent Link From James Hamilton if everybody and their grandmother is lining up for a bailout, and pulling political strings ( ...
Sneak Peek at Weekend Reading
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed —
A sneak peek at some links from my weekly Weekend Reading column over at TheStreet: Questions for Arthur Levitt (NYTimes) The Effects of Systemic Crises When Investors Can Be Crisis Ignorant (SSRN) The U.K. isn’t necessarily Iceland #2 (Roubini) Top-end adventure industry defies recession (Reuters) Bailouts should be no fun (Econbrowser) Q&A: Zimbabwe's Central Banker Defends Policies (Newsweek) California unemployment rate jumps to 9.3 ...
Sunday links: big oil buys
Abnormal Returns —
... “If everybody wants a bailout, that’s a good indication that we’re making some mistakes.” (Econbrowser) ...
Best paragraph I read today
SCSUScholars —
... , this morning while awaiting the Geithner Plan. RTWT. I think Jim Hamilton has this right: If everyone on Wall Street loves this plan, it's probably a bad plan.
Your money or your bank
SCSUScholars —
... Let me repeat this: You are not supposed to be happy to be bailed out. And you sure as hell shouldn't be issuing ultimata by deciding what the taxpayers' rate of return on your bailout should be. ...
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Fun with R-Squared
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