marginalrevolution.com - 11/22/2008
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The Dow is up 6.5 percent . And Tim Geithner will be Treasury Secretary. That's the two pieces of good news. The bad news is that the market is up because of a political appointment . That's really very bad news, especially since the other logical candidates for the post ...
calculatedrisk.blogspot.com - 11/20/2008
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calculatedrisk.blogspot.com —
Click on graph for larger image in new
window. Doug Short of dshort.com (financial planner) sent me...
this graph of "Four Bad Bears". Note that the Great Depression crash is based on the DOW; the three others are for the S&P 500. Interesting ...
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Four Bad Bears
paul.kedrosky.com - 11/30/2008
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paul.kedrosky.com —
I know it isn't precisely what this headline
means -- "bad bank" is a euphemism in bailout...
circles for walling off from one another functional and non-functional parts of banks -– but I still like this headline from the WSJ today. To ...
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Citigroup: Bad Bank to Create Bad Bank
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Club for Growth —
Yesterday from Tyler Cowen:
The Dow is up 6.5 percent. And Tim Geithner will be Treasury Secretary. That's the two pieces of good news. The bad news is that the market is up because of a political appointment. That's really very bad news, especially since the other logical candidates for the post were extremely competent.
Obama picks solid economic team
The Emirates Economist —
1. Council of Economic Advisers: Christina Romer. Endorsed by Tyler Cowen (Marginal Revolution) and Greg Mankiw. Megan McArdle breathes a sigh of relief. 2. Treasury Secretary: Timothy Geithner. Endorsed by Cowen. 3. National Economic Council: Lawrence Summers. Endorsed, though with some head scratching by Cowen and especially Mankiw. (I wasn't even sure what the NEC is -- it's not a prominent place.) But this could be positioning Summers for replacing Ben Bernanke as Fed chairman in a few years. Not that there's anything ...
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