Submit a Story!
Votes
vote down flag
Don't Let Sunspots or Headlines Make You Panic: Kevin Hassett
bloomberg.com - 10/15/2008
Don't Let Sunspots or Headlines Make You Panic: Kevin Hassett
—
Don't Let Sunspots or Headlines Make You Panic: Kevin Hassett Commentary by Kevin Hassett Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) -- With the world's attention turned to the financial crisis, a strange celestial occurrence went virtually unnoticed. For more than 200 days this year, the sun was devoid of sunspots. ...

Blog Reactions

Newmark's Door:  "The only thing we have to fear . . . "

Greg Mankiw's Blog:  More Commentary on the Financial Mess

J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles:  Sunspots 36000!

Comments
Blog Reactions

"The only thing we have to fear . . . "
Newmark's Door — Kevin Hassett writes that we are in a Cass-Shell sunspot equilibrium.

More Commentary on the Financial Mess
Greg Mankiw's Blog — Alan Blinder and Glenn Hubbard Charles Calomiris Kevin Hassett

Sunspots 36000!
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — I don't know if I should call him a "friend," because he sends me to a Kevin Hassett column. Shorter Kevin Hassett: Markets are perfect! Perfect! Perfect, I tell you! Pay no attention to the evidence of your eyes!! Yes, Kevin Hassett says that the financial crisis is the fault of... the liberal media!!! And Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac because they lend to Black people!!! Kevin Hassett: Don't Let Sunspots or Headlines Make You Panic: Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) -- With the world's attention turned to the financial crisis, a strange celestial occurrence went virtually unnoticed. For more than 200 days this year, the sun was devoid of ...

Related Content
News
bloomberg.com 9/22/2008 — How the Democrats Created the Financial Crisis: Kevin Hassett Commentary by Kevin Hassett Sept. 22 (Bloomberg) -- The financial crisis of the past year has provided a number of surprising twists and turns, and from Bear Stearns Cos. to American ...
SARS Offers Lessons for Credit Panic: Kevin Hassett (Correct)
bloomberg.com 10/7/2008 — Commentary by Kevin Hassett (Corrects fifth paragraph to indicate year of panic was 1837, not 1937.) Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) -- This is what a panic looks like. Banks have practically stopped lending to one another. Risky assets are so toxic that the ...
Recession Will Be Less Damaging Without Bailouts: Kevin Hassett
bloomberg.com 11/17/2008 — Commentary by Kevin Hassett Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) -- When times are bad, you find out who you are. In some sense, economics is like sports. Sometimes you get slaughtered, but if you believe in yourself and keep fighting, you can win again. A look at ...
Trillion-Dollar Spree Is Road to Ruin, Not Rally: Kevin Hassett
bloomberg.com 1/12/2009 — Trillion-Dollar Spree Is Road to Ruin, Not Rally: Kevin Hassett Commentary by Kevin Hassett Jan. 12 (Bloomberg) -- We are in the midst of a crisis caused by so many financial institutions borrowing too much money. Somehow, a critical mass of policy ...
‘Manchurian Candidate’ Starts War on Business: Kevin Hassett
bloomberg.com 3/9/2009 — Commentary by Kevin Hassett March 9 (Bloomberg) -- Back in the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson gave us the War on Poverty. In the 1970s, Richard Nixon launched the War on Drugs . Now that we have seen President Barack Obama ’s first-year legislative agenda, we ...
James Kwak Is a Much Better Economist than Kevin Hassett or Lawrence White
delong.typepad.com 12/30/2008 — He writes: Community Reinvestment Act Makes Bankers Stupid, According to AEI Research : Many people who are more expert than I in the housing market have already debunked the CRA myth. Here are just a few: Janet Yellen, Menzie Chinn, Randall ...
Fiscal Stimulus Skeptics: Jonah Goldberg Outdoes Kevin Hassett
econospeak.blogspot.com 1/14/2009 — Just one day after my nomination , I have to rescind and give my nomination for the dumbest criticism of the Obama fiscal stimulus to Jonah Goldberg . After 7 paragraphs of Goldberg’s typical meaningless ramblings, we finally get this: That might ...
Obama Tells American Businesses to Drop Dead: Kevin Hassett
bloomberg.com 6/11/2009 — Commentary by Kevin Hassett June 8 (Bloomberg) -- I’ve finally figured out the Obama economic strategy. President Barack Obama and his team have been having so much fun wielding dictatorial power while rescuing “failed” firms, that they have developed ...
Hassett and the Paradox of Thrift
econospeak.blogspot.com 1/13/2009 — I nominate Kevin Hassett for the worse argument yet against the Obama fiscal stimulus: We are in the midst of a crisis caused by so many financial institutions borrowing too much money. Somehow, a critical mass of policy makers now believes that the ...
Recession Bites Into Social Security’s Surplus: Kevin Hassett
bloomberg.com 3/30/2009 — Commentary by Kevin Hassett March 30 (Bloomberg) -- Criminals know that people who are distracted might forget to keep an eye on their valuables. It’s just happened to us as a nation. We have all been so busy whining about bonuses at American ...