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marginalrevolution.com - 10/22/2008

Where is the Credit Crunch? III

— marginalrevolution.com — Back in February I pointed out that despite all the talk of a credit crunch commercial and... industrial loans were at an all-time high and increasing.  In September I once again pointed to data showing that bank credit continued to be high (even ... (more) Where is the Credit Crunch? III

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marginalrevolution.com - 10/25/2008

The credit crunch: I still cannot agree with Alex and Bryan

— marginalrevolution.com — Alex is a very good truth-tracker but on credit I remain stubborn.  Here is one report :... How is trade finance coping with the credit crunch Badly. Steve Rodley, director of London-based shipping hedge-fund Global Maritime Investments, puts ... (more) The credit crunch: I still cannot agree with Alex and Bryan

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macromarketmusings.blogspot.com - 10/29/2008

Is There A Credit Crunch? Evidence from the Money Multiplier

— macromarketmusings.blogspot.com — There has been a debate raging in the blogosphere as to whether there really is a credit... crunch. On one side of the debate is Alex Tabarrok and these authors who argue that while there is some stress in credit markets there is no systemic credit ... (more) Is There A Credit Crunch? Evidence from the Money Multiplier

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Tabarrok Truth-Tracker
EconLog: Library of Economics and Liberty — Tyler has often said that his co-blogger Alex Tabarrok is the best truth-tracker in our lunch posse. Alas, Tyler fails to take his own assessment seriously. See their exchange on the myths of the credit "crisis": Phase 1. Alex summarizes the latest data. Phase 2. Tyler expresses skepticism . Phase 3. Alex rebuts : The Minn. Fed. presented data demonstrating that four widely reported claims about the credit crisis panic are myths - do either of the cited links claim that any of these myths are in fact true? No. Do either of the cited links ...

Trust Us!
Overcoming Bias — ... with this sort of thing.  The US has given top government economists, such as Paulson and Bernanke, well over a trillion in mostly blank checks to spend saving their Wall Street friends from ruin, supposedly to prevent another great depression.  But it seems economists looking today at the data available then just can't find clear evidence a massive buyout was needed. Alex Tabarrok has been reviewing the evidence here, here, and here.  Tyler responds, but as Bryan notes, not effectively.  Yes we are heading into a serious ...

The Bank Lending Debate
The Baseline Scenario — ... For those who spend too much time reading economics blogs, there was a bit of a stir in the last few days over a paper by three economists at the Minneapolis Fed, which essentially said that bank lending to the real economy had not been affected by the supposed credit crisis. There were articles on the topic by Alex Tabarrok, Free Exchange, Mark Thoma, me, Tyler Cowen, Alex Tabarrok again, Free Exchange again, and Tyler Cowen again, among others. My main issue was that the charts in the paper said ...