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Afternoon Reading 12/23/2008: Mark-to-Market, Keynes, Quants
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed — ... for quants (BBC) Keynes offers us the best way to think about the financial crisis (FT) Bush signs pension funding relief bill(P&I) Pondering Madoff as we enter 2009 (The Big Picture) Searching Bernie Madoff's political contributions (OpenSecrets) Number one sports science story of the year: Limits to human performance (SS) Helpful video on quantitative easing (Marketplace) ...

links for 2008-12-24
Economist's View — A Healthy Economy - Jacob Hacker The Ten Days of Newton - Olivia Judson Keynes offers best way to think about the financial crisis - Martin Wolf Chaos Theory Simplified: Just Follow the Bouncing Droplet - SciAm Hair of the Dog - Nick Rowe Uncertainty and the credit crisis: The worst may be over - voxeu.org Quantitative easing - Marketplace Whiteboard Are modern recessions different? - macroblog Bubble blindness - ...

Video-o-rama
The Big Picture — ... for the Israeli economy and the IMF’s role in resolving the global financial crisis.” Source: Bloomberg (via YouTube), December 21, 2008. Marketplace: Quantitative easing “Now the Federal Reserve has effectively cut the target lending rate to zero, it only has one more weapon in its arsenal. Quantitative easing. Senior editor Paddy Hirsch explains what this ‘nuclear option’ is, and what the Fed hopes it’ll do.” Source: Marketplace, December 2008. CNBC: Byron Wien – ...

Words from the (investment) wise 12.28.08
The Big Picture — ... have reacted with feelings going from surprise to anger, and from anger to fear,’ he said.” Source: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Telegraph, December 22, 2008. Marketplace: Quantitative easing “Now the Federal Reserve has effectively cut the target lending rate to zero, it only has one more weapon in its arsenal. Quantitative easing. Senior Editor Paddy Hirsch explains what this ‘nuclear option’ is, and what the Fed hopes it’ll do.” Source: Marketplace, December 2008. Asha Bangalore (Northern ...