ndk's notepad Thu 2009-02-26 00:00 EST
policies Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog
Tue 2009-02-24 00:00 EST
Jesse's Café Américain: Bad Bank Proposal is Bad Policy and a Symptom of Serious Problems in Obama Administration
Jesse's Café Américain: Bad Bank Proposal is Bad Policy and a Symptom of Serious Problems in Obama Administration
Bad Bank Proposal; bad policies; Jesse's Café Américain; Obama administration; serious problem; symptoms.
Tue 2009-02-24 00:00 EST
Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy by Murray N. Rothbard
(1984)
American foreign policy; bank; Murray N. Rothbard; Wall Street.
Fri 2009-01-16 00:00 EST
NEW REPORT: Transitioning to a New U.S. International Economic Policy - Toward a ``Global Deal
NEW REPORT: Transitioning to a New U.S. International Economic Policy - Toward a "Global Deal; Richard Samans report
Global deal; new report; New U.S. International Economic Policy; transition.
Fri 2009-01-16 00:00 EST
Disabusing Popular Assumptions | The Wall Street Examiner
Disabusing Popular Assumptions, by Lee Adler | The Wall Street Examiner; ``Once the forces of deflation have been set in motion monetary and fiscal policy are powerless to stop them.''
Thu 2009-01-15 00:00 EST
Jesse's Café Américain: Did the New Deal Fail?
Jesse's Café Américain: Did the New Deal Fail? ``The New Deal was so "ineffective" that the Fed panicked and doubled reserve requirements in a draconian pre-emptive response because they feared inflation!'' ''In a fiat regime inflation and deflation are primarily...the end result of a series of policy, fiscal, and political decisions.''
Thu 2009-01-15 00:00 EST
The Institutional Risk Analyst: GSE Nation: Interview with Robert Feinberg
GSE Nation: Interview with Robert Feinberg; The Institutional Risk Analyst (IRA); 2008-03-17; ``the government-sponsored entity or "GSE" is now the preferred business model in the US'' ``public policy has been replaced by public relations in this country. Our leaders don't get told what they don't want to hear because the spin machine let's them pick up the Wall Street Journal and read what they want to read because it was placed by the PR firm hired by the banks or the GSEs for that purpose.''
GSE nationalization; Institutional Risk Analyst; interview; Robert Feinberg.
Fri 2008-12-12 00:00 EST
Jesse's Café Américain: Money Supply, Paul Krugman, and the Great Depression
Jesse's Café Américain: Money Supply, Paul Krugman, and the Great Depression; ``Fed made a significant policy error in raising the discount rate in early 1931''; ``we can imagine an outcome in which misbegotten monetary policy results in an oligopoly of corporate interests and an economy that is permanently frozen in a series of de facto monopolies based on central planning, not all that dissimilar to the experience of the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution and some countries in which a hundred or so powerful families control the government and its economy in a state of permanent corruption and malaise.''
Great Depression; Jesse's Café Américain; money supply; Paul Krugman.
Tue 2008-09-02 00:00 EDT
Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy by Murray N. Rothbard
American foreign policy; bank; Murray N. Rothbard; Wall Street.
Mon 2008-08-04 00:00 EDT
London Banker: What's up with the covered bond push?
"Whenever Henry Paulson at Treasury, Ben Bernanke at the Fed and Shiela Bair at FDIC agree on anything, American taxpayers should check for their wallets...When the troubled bank nonetheless fails, our golden circle creditors get the good collateral in an expedited release from FDIC under its new policy statement. The FDIC is left with all the toxic waste assets and liability for depositor insurance claims, with no prospect of recovery"
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.
Sun 2008-07-06 00:00 EDT
``The System is Broken. We're Entering a Two Economy Society'': An Interview with Michael Hudson
"The System is Broken. We're Entering a Two Economy Society": An Interview with Michael Hudson, by Mike Whitney; democracy precedes oligarchy; reframing tax policy; fraudulent conveyance applied to minimize foreclosure; "Credit is a product that's almost free to create. Its main cost of production is the lobbying expense to buy Congressional support."
broken; Economy Society; enters; interview; Michael Hudson; Systems.
Fri 2008-06-20 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: "Exploding Commodity Prices Signal Future Inflation"
"commodity prices are the result of portfolio shift against liquid assets by sovereign investors, sovereign wealth funds, partly triggered by lax monetary policy,...olicymakers should seriously start worrying about inflation and stop chasing imaginary destabilising speculators."
Exploding Commodity Prices Signal Future Inflation; naked capitalism.
Wed 2008-06-11 00:00 EDT
Jesse's Café Américain: What is Really Spooking Wall Street - Policy Change is in the Wind
Jesse's Café Américain: What is Really Spooking Wall Street - Policy Change is in the Wind; Joseph Stiglitz on rethinking growth; Jesse: we have ringside seats to history...times of change and crisis are times of volatility, fresh trends, and opportunity
Jesse's Café Américain; policy changes; Really Spooking Wall Street; wind.