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angrybear.blogspot.com - 12/14/2008

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Robert Waldmann gives advice to libertarians, free market fanatics and Republicans on how to blame the financial crisis on government regulation. Quite frankly, their efforts so far have been pathetic -- Let's pretend that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac lead the way in sub-prime mortgages which were ...

blogs.ft.com - 12/18/2008

Normality is just a few policy steps away

— blogs.ft.com — By Ricardo Caballero Economic agents of all sorts, from creditors to consumers, are frozen waiting for some... sense of normality to be restored amid the financial crisis. However, normality is much closer —just a few bold policy steps away— than is ... (more) Normality is just a few policy steps away

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