nytimes.com - 11/28/2008
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A few months ago I found myself at a meeting of economists and finance officials, discussing what else? the crisis. There was a lot of soul-searching going on. One senior policy maker asked, “Why didn’t we see this coming?” There was, of course, only one thing to say in reply, so I said it: ...
nytimes.com - 11/23/2008
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nytimes.com —
So, I have a confession and a suggestion.
The confession: I go into restaurants these days, look...
around at the tables often still crowded with young people, and I have this urge to go from table to table and say: “You don’t know me, but I have to tell ...
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Op-Ed Columnist - We Found the W.M.D.
nytimes.com - 11/22/2008
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Suddenly, everything old is New Deal again. Reagan
is out; F.D.R. is in. Still, how much guidance...
does the Roosevelt era really offer for today’s world? The answer is, a lot. But Barack Obama should learn from F.D.R.’s failures as well as from his ...
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Op-Ed Columnist - Franklin Delano Obama?
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Calculated Risk —
... Nouriel Roubini writes, Given the recent flow of dismal economic indicators, I now believe that the odds of a U.S. recession by year end have increased from 50% to 70%. For these pundits, the most dismal indicator is that we have a Republican Administration. They have been gloomy for six years now. Sure Roubini was early (I thought so at the time), but show me someone who has been more right! And this brings me to Krugman's column: Lest We Forget ... Why did so many observers dismiss the obvious signs of a housing ...
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The Mess That Greenspan Made —
... falls below $54 ahead of OPEC meeting - AP Gold little changed; traders eye OPEC meeting - Reuters ‘Structural deficit’ in gold supply could send prices higher - Mineweb 4 double-digit gains in a row for the Dow, but ... - MarketWatch As Oil Prices Fall, Tensions Among OPEC Members Seem to Deepen - NY Times Citigroup says gold could rise above $2,000 next year as world unravels - Telegraph ECONOMY Lest We Forget - Krugman, NY Times Too many cooks in Obama’s economics kitchen - Financial ...
NYT's Krugman: The financial and economic warning signs were there
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... ) columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman provides a little perspective on how we got here and also offers some hope, regarding these trying economic times. ...
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