Who Occupies the Occupiers?
I’m glad Mike Drew wrote a guest post. Mike’s comments are consistently the ones I meditate over most (which explains why I rarely respond to them while the thread is still active.), and Mike’s...
Tagged: Financial Crisis
Technicalities
John Carney has some interesting commentary on the first day of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission hearings. He writes: A structured credit product—whether its as simple as a mortgage backed security or a complex...
Soft bigotry, meet low expectations
After I read Ross Douthat’s column this morning, I tweeted that I was nominally on board with his attempt to massage George W. Bush’s reputation. Three hours, two cups of coffee, and a nice...
freeing the country from the credit trap
I’m sure many of you have had your fill of new perspectives on the financial crisis and the conditions that led to it; I thought I had, too. But I find the piece “Infinite...
Growth vs/equal to Prosperity?
Will Wilkinson reprints the response of John Cochrane to the Brad DeLong-Luigi Zingales debate at the Economist. [The whole debate is very much worth the read]. Cochrane begins: Nobody is Keynesian now, really. Keynes...
Dear Abby
Jack Gillis proves that sometimes less is more: Dear Abby: I’ve been in a long-term relationship with Benry. Bank cheated on me back in the 1930s but I put my foot down at the...
Economic Crisis
This post grows out of some discussion Freddie and I have participated in over at The Confabulum re: Conor’s post about potential bank nationalization. Bank nationalization,were it to occur, would undoubtedly be the result...
