nytimes.com - 9/27/2008
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With breathtaking speed, the world of large Wall Street investment banks has vanished. Fabled firms, some more than a century old, have been merged out of existence (Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch), gone bankrupt (Lehman Brothers), or sought asylum as commercial bank holding companies (Goldman ...
Op-Ed Contributor - The Climate for Change
nytimes.com 11/10/2008 — (Page 2 of 2) Here’s what we can do now: we can make an immediate and large strategic investment to put people to work replacing 19th-century energy technologies that depend on dangerous and expensive carbon-based fuels with 21st-century ...
Op-Ed Contributor - Buy American. I Am.
nytimes.com 10/17/2008 — Omaha THE financial world is a mess, both in the United States and abroad. Its problems, moreover, have been leaking into the general economy, and the leaks are now turning into a gusher. In the near term, unemployment will rise, business activity ...
Op-Ed Contributor - The L Curve
nytimes.com 3/1/2009 — LAST year, the debate over how long the recession will last was between those in the consensus who argued that it would be V-shaped only about eight months long like those in 1990 to 1991 and in 2001 and those like me who argued that it would last ...
Op-Ed Contributor - If You Have to Ask...
nytimes.com 3/2/2009 — “WHEN you stop asking,” was the exasperated reply of the broker to the pestering client who asked the same question over and over during the 1974 stock-market crash: When will it end? Nobody knew, or could know. The broker, wiser than he realized, ...
Op-Ed Contributor - A Long Goodbye
nytimes.com 3/1/2009 — THE short answer is not soon. The recession is global: exports, production and consumption are in high-speed descent. The headwinds are powerful because of excessive leverage, damaged balance sheets and the resulting tight credit. Major financial ...
Op-Ed Contributor - Rule of Four
nytimes.com 3/1/2009 — WHEN our economic woes began, analysts took some solace that the longest American recession since World War II lasted 16 months, and that on average our recessions lasted less than a year. But as this contraction continues into its 15th month, we have ...
Op-Ed Contributor - It Can’t Last Forever
nytimes.com 3/1/2009 — HERE’S the hard truth: Nobody knows when this recession will end. Economic forecasting is a dark art, and predicting when recessions begin and end is its weakest link. That said, my best guess is that growth will return in the fourth quarter of this ...
Op-Ed Contributor - An Ordinary Crisis
nytimes.com 3/1/2009 — TODAY’S financial crisis is the biggest in recent history, when measured by its speed, the scale of its capital losses or its global reach. Yet viewed from another perspective the crisis is surprisingly ordinary, following the same path as dozens of ...
Op-Ed Contributor - Warren Buffett - Buy American. I Am.
nytimes.com 10/17/2008 — Omaha THE financial world is a mess, both in the United States and abroad. Its problems, moreover, have been leaking into the general economy, and the leaks are now turning into a gusher. In the near term, unemployment will rise, business activity ...
Op-Ed: Beyond Mark-to-Market
dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com 11/17/2008 — Here’s one opinion on a controversial topic from Stephen S. Crawford, a partner at the financial advisory and private equity firm Centerview Partners. Before co-founding Centerview, Mr. Crawford spent nearly 20 years at Morgan Stanley, most ...
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