informationarbitrage.com - 9/26/2008
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Needless to say, Messrs. Paulson and Bernanke's $700 billion rescue package has ruffled a few feathers on Wall Street, Main Street, and the Legislative and Executive branches of the U.S. Government. Some say "Do it now or else we'll have financial calamity." Others say "$700 billion to bail out ...
macroblog.typepad.com - 9/25/2008
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macroblog.typepad.com —
A fair amount of the discussion around what
now seems to be an imminent rescue plan to...
settle unsettled financial markets has been focused on a debate as to whether Main Street should pay or Wall Street should pay for the plan. Pimco’s William Gross, ...
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Wall Street worries, Main Street woes
voxeu.org - 9/28/2008
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voxeu.org —
A couple of months ago at lunch with
a respected Fed watcher, I asked, What are the...
odds are that US unemployment will reach 10% before the crisis is over? Zero, he responded, in an admirable display of confidence. Watchers tending to internalise the ...
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From Wall Street to Main Street: Lessons from the Great ...
canadiancapitalist.com - 10/4/2008
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canadiancapitalist.com —
There is a lot of public anger on
the $700 billion dollar bailout that is being proposed...
by the Bush Administration. The typical reaction is why bail out well-paid fat cats on Wall Street, who are responsible for the current mess anyway. While it is ...
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Why Bailout Wall Street?
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To Splurge Or Not To Splurge
A VC —
... but I woke up trying to figure out if I am in favor of it. So I'll read (links) and think outloud and hopefully get somewhere.
My friend Tom Evslin, a conservative in the best sense of the word, posted his thoughts titled Just Say No. He argues the splurge is a short term fix and we should invest the capital in long term solutions to our economic problems instead.
My friend Roger Ehrenberg, a wall street guy who made the leap to startups and VC a few years back, thinks we must do something: Bottom line, I think the system would ...
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