economix.blogs.nytimes.com - 10/30/2009
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Peter Boone is chairman of Effective Intervention , a charity based in Britain, and a research associate at the Center for Economic Performance, London School of Economics. Simon Johnson , a professor of entrepreneurship at M.I.T.’s Sloan School of Management, is the former chief economist at ...
baselinescenario.com - 10/29/2009
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Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, has
stayed carefully on the sidelines while a major argument...
has broken out among and around senior policymaking circles: Should our biggest banks be broken up, or can they be safely re-regulated into permanently good behavior? (See the recent ...
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Does Ben Bernanke Have The Facts Right On Banking?
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The Baseline Scenario —
... Mr. Hoenig is, if anything, a little too polite. There is no evidence that huge banks, at their current scale, provide any social benefit. When these same banks were much smaller, in dollar terms and as a percent of the economy, the global economy functioned no worse than today. ...
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