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Treasury Meeting Redux
Across the Curve —
... Yves Smith has posted her take on the meeting yesterday between bloggers and senior Treasury officials. Here is a link to Naked Capitalism. ...
Going to Washington as a financial blogger
Angry Bear —
Rdan
Yves Smith describes a meeting she attended at Treasury in D.C. Read at her place or the rest under the fold.
The Treasury invited a small group of bloggers for a “discussion” with senior officials on Monday. Initially, the meeting was to be background, which is a sort of journalistic “FYI but you can’t use it” but we were told at the meeting that we could discuss the meeting as long as remarks were not attributed to particular individuals.
None of us knew in advance how many attendees there would be; there were ...
My Visit to the US Treasury, Part 2
The Aleph Blog —
... my fellow bloggers out there, if you were invited to the gathering at the US Treasury and did not come, I have a request and a question:
If you were invited, send me an e-mail.
Tell me why you decided not to come, if you would.
If present trends continue, I can tell you that bloggers are not pushovers for the US Treasury, but neither are they deaf or heartless. Since my last post, here are the responses to the gathering:
Curious Meeting at Treasury Department
A Few Observations of My Own ...
Further reading
FT Alphaville —
Elsewhere on Wednesday, - If the economy’s stagnant, why are stocks up ? - The edge: a golden opportunity remains. - On the clash of economic theories (and commentators). - John Paulson once had self-doubts. - A curious meeting at the US Treasury. - The women who made it on Wall Street: Lessons from Krawcheck . - Burlington — not so Buffett-like . - Over-analysing Buffett’s big train-set purchase . - Gasparino calls out the sell-outs. - A creeping power-grab in Washington DC . - Gasp! Fund manager ...
Wednesday links: one year later
Abnormal Returns —
... Bloggers go to the Treasury. Still no plan to really deal with TBTF. (naked capitalism, ...
My Visit to the US Treasury, Part 3
The Aleph Blog —
... Felix Salmon
If you were in the Treasury’s shoes, who else would you have invited? E-mail me, or put it in the comments. Tomorrow I will mention who I thought would have been good additional guests.
Continuing Coverage
Here is a list of posts to date on the meeting:
Friday in Vegas (Kid Dynamite):
“A Sit Down With Senior Treasury Officials – Part I”
Naked Capitalism:
“Curious Meeting at Treasury Department”
The Aleph Blog:
“My ...
Assorted links
Marginal Revolution —
1. Geithner meets with bloggers, and here: "We were offered a tray of cookies at the meeting, from which I
abstained on principle. Those of you who think that's silly have no
idea how much I like cookies."
2. Assuming a can opener, more on health care costs.
3. More on the multiplier (shout it from the rooftops).
4. Mandates don't stay modest. 5. Lane Kenworthy reviews Create Your Own Economy.
‘I Have Been Corrupted, A Little’: How Spin-Resistant Are Economics Bloggers?
Institutional Economics —
‘I Have Been Corrupted, A Little’: How Spin-Resistant Are Economics Bloggers? The US Treasury has been running high level briefing sessions for economic bloggers. Officialdom has obviously recognised that bloggers are an influential voice and need to be managed like old media. Fortunately, economics bloggers are proving a little more spin-resistant than Treasury perhaps expected. Here is what Naked Capitalism thought about the briefing: It wasn’t obvious what the objective of the meeting was (aside the obvious idea that if they were nice to us we might reciprocate. ...
Treasury and the Blogs
The Baseline Scenario —
... On Monday the Treasury Department (various officials, including Geithner, in shifts) had an informal meeting with eight prominent finance or economics bloggers. I’ve only read the accounts by Tyler Cowen, Steve Waldman, and Yves Smith; Waldman names all of them and links to other accounts. This is Smith’s sum-up:
“[T]hese guys are very smooth, very smart, and seemed quite sincere, which made it difficult to discern how much they really did believe and how much of what they said they had to say because they ...
Tens of Billions Lost
Institutional Economics —
... ‘I Have Been Corrupted, A Little’: How Spin-Resistant Are Economics Bloggers? The US Treasury has been running high level briefing sessions for economic bloggers. Officialdom has obviously recognised that bloggers are an influential voice and need to be managed like old media. Fortunately, economics bloggers are proving a little more spin-resistant than Treasury perhaps expected. Here is what Naked Capitalism thought about the briefing: It wasn’t obvious what the objective of the meeting was (aside the obvious idea that if they were nice to us we might reciprocate. ...
Nouriel Roubini versus the Dow
Institutional Economics —
... ‘I Have Been Corrupted, A Little’: How Spin-Resistant Are Economics Bloggers? The US Treasury has been running high level briefing sessions for economic bloggers. Officialdom has obviously recognised that bloggers are an influential voice and need to be managed like old media. Fortunately, economics bloggers are proving a little more spin-resistant than Treasury perhaps expected. Here is what Naked Capitalism thought about the briefing: It wasn’t obvious what the objective of the meeting was (aside the obvious idea that if they were nice to us we might reciprocate. ...
Capital Gains Tax Myths and Realities
Institutional Economics —
... ‘I Have Been Corrupted, A Little’: How Spin-Resistant Are Economics Bloggers? The US Treasury has been running high level briefing sessions for economic bloggers. Officialdom has obviously recognised that bloggers are an influential voice and need to be managed like old media. Fortunately, economics bloggers are proving a little more spin-resistant than Treasury perhaps expected. Here is what Naked Capitalism thought about the briefing: It wasn’t obvious what the objective of the meeting was (aside the obvious idea that if they were nice to us we might reciprocate. ...
Gold Price a Stock Rather than a Flow Equilibrium
Institutional Economics —
... ‘I Have Been Corrupted, A Little’: How Spin-Resistant Are Economics Bloggers? The US Treasury has been running high level briefing sessions for economic bloggers. Officialdom has obviously recognised that bloggers are an influential voice and need to be managed like old media. Fortunately, economics bloggers are proving a little more spin-resistant than Treasury perhaps expected. Here is what Naked Capitalism thought about the briefing: It wasn’t obvious what the objective of the meeting was (aside the obvious idea that if they were nice to us we might reciprocate. ...
The End of Inflation Targeting?
Institutional Economics —
... ‘I Have Been Corrupted, A Little’: How Spin-Resistant Are Economics Bloggers? The US Treasury has been running high level briefing sessions for economic bloggers. Officialdom has obviously recognised that bloggers are an influential voice and need to be managed like old media. Fortunately, economics bloggers are proving a little more spin-resistant than Treasury perhaps expected. Here is what Naked Capitalism thought about the briefing: It wasn’t obvious what the objective of the meeting was (aside the obvious idea that if they were nice to us we might reciprocate. ...
