howardlindzon.com - 11/16/2008
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Too much energy is spent and too many accolades are given to those that are ‘right’. Lot’s of people were right calling for a nasty recession. Most of them are still broke or down 40 percent. You can’t say you were ‘right’ if you called for a tsunami and than ...
What Went Wrong
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What Went Wrong
washingtonpost.com 10/15/2008 — Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ...
I’d rather be wrong, so wrong
fistfulofeuros.net 6/22/2009 — about Iran.
via Andrew Sullivan — who, for his work this past week, shall be forgiven much — comes Daniel Larison, fretting about regime collapse and separatist movements in Iran. Those strike me as deeply improbable. Iran is not a failed or even a particularly weak state; if the ...
The Problem with Banks
magicdiligence.com 9/20/2008 — Magic Formula investors have luckily been spared from the calamity in financial stocks over the past year. But even in the best of times, banking is a risky industry that is difficult to properly value, and should be avoided by most individual ...
What Went Wrong
washingtonpost.com 10/15/2008 — How did the world's markets come to the brink of collapse? Some say regulators failed. Others claim deregulation left them handcuffed. Who's right? Both are. This is the story of how Washington didn't catch up to Wall Street. By Anthony Faiola, Ellen ...
The wrong financial crisis
VoxEU.org 10/22/2008 — J. Bradford DeLong , 10 October 2008 Catastrophic failures of risk management throughout the entire banking sector multiplied a relatively minor collapse in housing prices into a paralysis of the global finance system not seen since the Great ...
The Fed's Political Problem
foreignaffairs.com 9/8/2009 —
How Politics Threatens U.S. Monetary Policy
September 3, 2009
In the midst of the ongoing financial crisis, Congress is now considering a bill that would subject the Federal ...
Great Speech, Obama! But Still Wrong About The Problem
businessinsider.com 4/14/2009 — obamageithner.jpg We can't say enough about the joy of having a sharp, articulate, and charming president lead this country through this crisis. Every time we watch Obama speak, our confidence is restored. That said, we wish Obama didn't spend so much ...
The German problem
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com 12/10/2008 — A brief note on real economic issues. Everyone here seems to be talking about two things: the fate of the auto industry, which is in almost as much trouble in Sweden as it is in the United States, and the German problem. At a time when expansionary ...
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