nakedcapitalism.com - 11/15/2008
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One of the underlying assumptions of the Fed's and many other central banks' response to the credit crisis is that it can be halted, and hopefully remedied, by having the government backstop the troubled financial sector. One template is not to repeat the supposed mistakes of the Great ...
alephblog.com - 11/20/2008
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alephblog.com —
I’m going out on a limb here, and
I’m going to suggest that we have already entered...
a depression. The concept of a depression is even less objective than that of a recession, but some suggest that a decline in real GDP of 10% or more is ...
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It’s Called a Depression
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 11/9/2008
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krugman.blogs.nytimes.com —
Everybody's talking new New Deal these days -
and, predictably, the FDR-haters are out in force, with...
all the usual claims about FDR having actually made the Great Depression worse. (To the right, way back when, FDR was "That Man." Now Obama is "that ...
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New Deal economics
calculatedrisk.blogspot.com - 11/10/2008
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calculatedrisk.blogspot.com —
Since investment in non-residential structures is slowing (especially
malls, hotels, and offices), a key question is how...
did the commercial real estate (CRE) investment boom compare to the residential housing bubble? And how did the CRE boom compare ...
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The Commercial Real Estate Bust
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Decline and Fall of Western Civilization —
yves smith of naked capitalism pens a comprehensive missive regarding the failures of western government responses to triage and delever their financial sectors -- in an attempt to avert growth contraction -- preferring instead to attempt to transfer balance sheet risk without contraction onto government balance sheets. ...
Sunday morning links
The Mess That Greenspan Made —
... seeks slice of bailout pie - San Jose Mercury News HOUSING 6 steps to fix the housing market - Boston.com 7 Ways for Obama to Save the Housing Market - US News Taking Stock of Builders' Wild Ride - Washington Post Real Estate Turns in Another Down Quarter - Zillow Blog FED/TREASURY/BANKING Treasury attacked over $700bn bail-out - Financial Times Misguided Policies - Seeking Alpha Investors Leery of Buying Government Debt As Calendar Grows - Naked Capitalism Obama ...
Sunday links: risk is on sale
Abnormal Returns —
... “(E)ven if investors are not worried about the risk of a sovereign default, there is going to be so much government debt for sale that yields will rise, merely based on supply and demand.” (naked capitalism) ...
Obama 60 Minutes interview
Rolfe Winkler —
... The bond market may have something to say about “doing whatever it takes” to get the economy “moving.” Already investors are growing leery of buying government paper. Hey Barack: you can’t finance all the bailouts without, er, financing. ...
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