Thu 2009-07-23 00:00 EDT
John Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog
Tue 2009-06-16 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: Some Musings on Financial Innovation
Martin Mayer ``the whole purpose of the innovation is to get around the existing regulation''; John Maynard Keynes `` When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.'' Yves: ``ncreasing the liquidity of credit risk, even assuming it worked as advertised, seemed guaranteed to mean that everyone would be more casual about assuming it''
Tue 2009-06-16 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: John Dizard: Geithner's and Citi's Days Numbered
Citi's Days Numbered; Geithner's; John Dizard; naked capitalism.
Fri 2009-02-13 00:00 EST
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Brink of Debt Disaster
brink; Debt Disaster; Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis.
Thu 2009-01-15 00:00 EST
Hussman Funds - Weekly Market Comment: The Dollar Crisis Begins - December 22, 2008
Hussman Funds - Weekly Market Comment: The Dollar Crisis Begins, by John P. Hussman; ``foreign holders of Treasury securities are facing probable losses, and they know it''
2008; December 22; Dollar Crisis Begins; Hussman Funds; weekly market comments.
Sun 2008-11-23 00:00 EST
Joe Bageant: Sarah Palin is the Future of Conservatism
by Anonymous Political Consultant John Brown; ``In a system, which is entering a period of semi-permanent crisis, to plant oneself or one's party in its political center is to make yourself responsible for a political system which is forever failing, losing legitimacy and eventually its right to rule. In the long run, the future will belong to whichever political force flies the boldest flags, stands credibly far enough from those who will be held accountable for our troubles, and curses the loudest at the coming darkness.''
Sun 2008-11-23 00:00 EST
Who Is Rahm Emanuel?
by John Carney; `` Wall Street's Man In The White House''
Mon 2008-11-10 00:00 EST
America the Liberal
by John B. Judis, The New Republic; The Democratic majority: It emerged!
Fri 2008-11-07 00:00 EST
naked capitalism: Paulson vs. Bank Execs: Who is Telling the Truth?
2008-10-15; ``Early in his career, Paulson was a staffer for John Erlichman. It appears that imprinting stuck.''
Fri 2008-11-07 00:00 EST
Fed Hires Bear Stearns Risk Boss
by John Carney; ormer Bear Stearns chief risk officer Michael Alix; ``he was the guy on the mast charged with yelling "iceberg" just before the titantic introduced its bow to a floating hunk of ice''
Tue 2008-10-07 00:00 EDT
He Foresaw the End of an Era - The New York Review of Books
He Foresaw the End of an Era, by John Cassidy - The New York Review of Books; review of George Soros' The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means
books; ending; era; foresaw; New York Review.
Tue 2008-09-23 00:00 EDT
Hussman Funds - Weekly Market Comment
An Open Letter to the U.S. Congress Regarding the Current Financial Crisis, by John P. Hussman; ``the plan advocated by Treasury is essentially a plan to bail out the bondholders of financial institutions that made bad lending decisions, with little help to homeowners that are actually in financial distress''; Paulson bailout plan
Mon 2008-08-04 00:00 EDT
John McCain can't stand sucking up to the Christian right. Is this the end of the GOP's unholy alliance?
by Matt Taibbi; "The Bible-thumpers...would seem to have had little in common with the archpriests of the neoconservative movement...But they did: They shared an almost equal disdain for democracy, free speech and learning, and paradise for both groups was an intellectually mute America of vast malls, prisons packed full of ungrateful blacks, shitty TV programming to keep the brains chilled and 200-foot-high electrified fences along the Rio Grande."
Christian Right; ending; GOP's unholy alliance; John McCain; stand sucking.