Wed 2008-10-22 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: "Temporary full state ownership is only solution:
naked capitalism: "Temporary full state ownership is only solution''; Economist Paul De Grauwe
Economist Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog
Sun 2008-08-24 00:00 EDT
Safe Haven | The Elusive Bottom
Safehaven | The Elusive Bottom, by Merrill-Lynch economist David A. Rosenberg; predicting lengthy recession, secular bear market dating from 2000, eventual bullish indicators include savings rate above 8%, housing supply below 8 months, household interest coverage below 10.5%; frugality is in; bullish on bonds
Wed 2008-07-09 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: Wolfgang Munchau: Maybe the Economists Are to Blame After All
"policies to avoid recessions do more damage in the long run than letting slumps run their course."
blames; Economist; Maybe; naked capitalism; Wolfgang Munchau.
Wed 2008-06-18 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: Has the Fed Compromised Its Independence? (And Otherwise Messed Up?)
Former Federal Reserve economist Richard Alford opines Fed independence has been compromised; positions on the Board of Governors are to be treated as patronage jobs doled out to party loyalists
Fed Compromised; Independent; naked capitalism; Otherwise Messed.
Wed 2008-05-28 00:00 EDT
Economist's View: "The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too"
review of Jamie Galbraith's "The Predator State" by L. Randall Wray; "market solutions are designed to enrich a favored oligarchy through a spoils system administered through the states structure"
Conservatives Abandoned; Economist's View; free market; liberalism; Predator state.
Wed 2008-05-28 00:00 EDT
The Institutional Risk Analyst: Fed Risk: Interview with Richard Alford
Fed Risk: Interview with Dick Alford; Institutional Risk Analytics; former fed economist Richard Alford argues Fed misread inflation for deflation, Fed fighting the wrong battles; "US population is not ready to hear that their real levels of income, assets prices and other indicia of national well being may be falling or relatively stagnant for the foreseeable future."
Fed Risks; Institutional Risk Analyst; interview; Richard Alford.
Tue 2008-04-01 00:00 EDT
SPIEGEL ONLINE - Druckversion - US Financial Crisis: Why the Paulson Plan is DOA - International
SPIEGEL ONLINE - Druckversion - US Financial Crisis: Why the Paulson Plan is DOA, by BusinessWeek chief economist Mike Mandel - International; "Paulson's plan only works in a fictional world where investment banks properly regulate themselves"
DOA; Druckversion; Financial Crisis; International; Paulson plans; Spiegel Online.
Fri 2007-12-14 00:00 EST
naked capitalism: Mr. Minsky Moment Calls for Rate Cuts
"he best we have is palliatives. We can either take the losses, as the US has repeatedly told third world countries in similar fixes to ours, or we can go the Japan route of socializing the cost of propping up bad businesses and deals, or we can expand the money supply considerably and let inflation eat away at the value of the debt overhang." bearish UBS economist George Magnus calls for rate cuts
Tue 2007-11-20 00:00 EST
Subprime fallout: Preparing for the next financial crisis | vox - Research-based policy analysis and commentary from Europe's leading economists
Subprime fallout: Preparing for the next financial crisis, by Stephen Cecchetti; standardize securities, encourage exchange-based trading
commentary; Europe's leading economists; Financial Crisis; prepared; research-based policy analysis; subprime fallout; Vox.
Mon 2007-11-05 00:00 EST
Economist.com
Credit derivatives | At the risky end of finance | (CDS debacle looming)
Mon 2004-03-22 00:00 EST
Salon.com | Debunking the Economist -- again
by James Galbraith (against globalization)