ft.com - 10/29/2009
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The 80th anniversary of the Great Crash is upon us. This touches a nerve because we seemed to be looking into the same bottomless pit only a year ago. The chain of events, leading from a dramatic collapse in stock prices on Wall Street, beginning in late October 1929, to a Great Depression that ...
forbes.com - 10/30/2009
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forbes.com —
Eighty years ago this week, the stock market
crashed. Although it was more a symptom of the...
economy's underlying problems than a cause of the Great Depression, it is still considered the day the worst economic crisis in American history began. I've ...
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The Great Depression And The Great Recession
economistsview.typepad.com - 10/25/2009
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economistsview.typepad.com —
Lessons from the Great Depression: The Roots of
Protectionism in the Great Depression, by Laurent Belsie, NBER...
Reporter : The Great Depression was a breeding ground for protectionism. Output fell, prices declined, and unemployment rose, ...
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"The Roots of Protectionism in the Great Depression"
ritholtz.com - 10/28/2009
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ritholtz.com —
Has it only been 80 years? Gee, time
really flies when you are accumulating debt at compound...
interest rates. On this inauspicious anniversary, lets look at some fun stuff: • 1927-1933 Chart of Pompous Prognosticators • Bear Market Comparisons, ...
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Happy 80th Anniversary, 1929 Crash!
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... When the history of the global financial crisis is written, it may record that Neelie Kroes, the European Union’s competition commissioner was the only politician willing to respond in a logical manner, writes the FT ’s Gapper . By insisting on the break-up of the ING Group into its banking and insurance divisions — and on it divesting its US direct savings arm — Ms Kroes set a welcome precedent this week. She made a troublesome too-big-to-fail institution shrink. Peter Clarke: How to avoid a repeat of the Great Crash Clarke, who has written a new book on Keynes, writes : The ...
Links 10/29/09
naked capitalism —
New Name Floated In Geithner Replacement Talks Dealbreaker (What up, bankster? I said I wouldn’t be using that word but it’s in context and I had to say it. This will be the new Treasury lyrical theme – just replace the word gangsta with the other one.)
America’s Next President? YouTube (In the same vein as the last link. Hat tip Andrew Sullivan)
Galleon paid banks millions for ‘edge’ FT (Proof the system is rigged)
How to avoid a repeat of the Great Crash FT
Struggling in a recovering economy ...
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