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Brace Yourself For a Hard Landing By Mike Whitney
Dandelion Salad —
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http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/By Mike WhitneyDecember 22, 2009 “Information Clearing House“Ben Bernanke has been a bigger disaster than Hurricane Katrina. But the senate is about to re-up him for another four-year term. What are they thinking? Bernanke helped Greenspan inflate the biggest speculative bubble ...5 days ago -
Quotes For The Week
Boom2Bust.com —
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We are in a serious, great recession. -Paul Volcker, former Federal Reserve Chairman and current Chairman of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board in the Obama administration ( Spiegel Online (Germany), December 12) Everybody agrees the recession is over. -Larry Summers, Director of the National Economic ...6 days ago -
A Tale of Two Ivies
Akkam's Razor —
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One of the more frustrating things about Obama’s economic team and policy has been the use of the same advisors who contributed to the conditions that made the Great Recession possible (Geithner, Summers, etc.). Some schools, such as the University of Pennsylvania, saw the changing and challenging economic ...1 week ago -
Larry Summers - Did you listen to this man last year?
Biiwii (but... it is what it is) —
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Here is a Bloomberg article discussing how former Harvard President and current Obama advisor Larry Summers, the guy who sooth-said all those unsophisticated investors into long term US treasuries last spring, pulled the bonehead move of the century for the supposed bastion of higher intelligence, Harvard U. ...1 week ago -
Harvards Toxic Swaps: Interest Rate Bets Cost It Billions
DailyFinance —
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Everyone knows Harvard. The prestigious 373-year-old university rejects 95% of the people who apply. But the ones who get in usually end up doing pretty well. The Ivy League institution counts JFK and FDR among its alumni -- but thats ancient history. It also can claim such respected finance gurus as former U.S. ...1 week ago -
Lunchtime Links 12-18
Gulag Blog —
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(Reader note: still working on MUST READ — Strict framework leaves room for maneuver (Masters/Jenkins, FT) While this subject may seem a little dry, it’s the Basel Committee in Switzerland that will lead the way when it comes to how banks measure capital and how much they need to have. I’ll offer more ...1 week ago -
Lunchtime Links 12-18
Gulag Blog —
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(Reader note: still working on MUST READ — Strict framework leaves room for maneuver (Masters/Jenkins, FT) While this subject may seem a little dry, it’s the Basel Committee in Switzerland that will lead the way when it comes to how banks measure capital and how much they need to have. I’ll offer more ...1 week ago -
Lunchtime Links 12-18
Rolfe Winkler —
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(Reader note: still working on MUST READ — Strict framework leaves room for maneuver (Masters/Jenkins, FT) While this subject may seem a little dry, it’s the Basel Committee in Switzerland that will lead the way when it comes to how banks measure capital and how much they need to have. I’ll offer more ...1 week ago -
Lunchtime Links 12-18
Fuck Bankers —
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(Reader note: still working on MUST READ — Strict framework leaves room for maneuver (Masters/Jenkins, FT) While this subject may seem a little dry, it’s the Basel Committee in Switzerland that will lead the way when it comes to how banks measure capital and how much they need to have. I’ll offer more ...1 week ago -
Lunchtime Links 12-18
Fuck Bankers —
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(Reader note: still working on MUST READ — Strict framework leaves room for maneuver (Masters/Jenkins, FT) While this subject may seem a little dry, it’s the Basel Committee in Switzerland that will lead the way when it comes to how banks measure capital and how much they need to have. I’ll offer more ...1 week ago -
Bring Back That Wall! Why We Need Stricter Investment Banking Regulations Now More Than Ever
The Indypendent —
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The Obama administration is talking tough but acting tame with respect to Wall Street. But a pair of senators is coming out swinging. Today, Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and John McCain (R-AZ) are taking a step towards proactive reconstruction of the banking sector by introducing the Banking Integrity Act of ...1 week ago -
Three Men Who Were Responsible For the Great Recession
Weatherdem's Weblog —
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I saw this picture in a Meteor Blades diary on dkos and had to comment on it: Here is a comment made at the end of the post: [The Time magazine cover photo is of Robert Rubin, Alan Greenspan and Larry Summers from February 15, 1999, right after Gramm-Leach-Bliley repeal of Glass-Steagall was signed. h/t to Paul ...1 week ago -
Clinton far more popular than Obama: Poll
Thaindian News —
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Washington, Dec. 17 (ANI): US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s popularity rating is much higher than her once rival, President Barack Obama, a poll conducted among news watchers has revealed. According to a poll conducted by the non-partisan Clarus Research Group among 800 registered voters, Clinton received a ...1 week ago -
Saturn’s Hexagon and the Bulava Spiral: Nota Bene #2009-45
Scholars and Rogues —
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“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” Who said it? The answer is at the end of this post. Now on to the links! … “What’s taken place in the year since Obama won the presidency has turned out to be one of the most dramatic political about-faces in our history” … ...1 week ago -
Sustainability of U.S. Deficits Reason Why Investors Own Some Gold
The Daily Reckoning Australia —
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Todays Daily Reckoning is an ambitious one. But hey, after youve seen James Camerons Avatar , you feel like pretty much anything is possible. Well save the movie review for later. For now, lets have a look at some obvious and not so obvious warning signs emanating from the economy. First is the picture below. It is ...1 week ago -
A Pollyanna Christmas
Boom2Bust.com —
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“The U.S. economy is digging itself out of a deep hole. You have probably heard a lot of doom and gloom lately, including talk of a jobless recovery, an L-shaped recovery (which means no recovery at all), or even a W—the feared double-dip recession. The Scrooges have a point: There are serious dangers to the ...1 week ago -
Women In Theory 2
in theory —
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I received from Tal Rabin an announcement of the Second Women in Theory Workshop, which will take place at Princeton on June 19-23, 2010. To apply please go [here] The format will be similar to the WIT 2008 workshop . Here is a video about the 2008 workshop:1 week ago -
Wall Street’s Fat Cats Are Still In Charge
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines —
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By Robert Scheer Most Americans now know that Wall Street bankers are so greedy as to never be trusted, and I suppose it is a sign of progress that our president now seems to grasp the obvious. How depressing, though, that a man who was elected as a consequence of one of the boldest grass-roots populist ...1 week ago -
Document Flashback: Larry Summers’ 1991 World Bank Memo
EnviroKnow —
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New York Times in February 1992 : A memo by Lawrence H. Summers, the World Bank’s chief economist, has angered environmentalists by arguing that many developing countries are underpolluted and that dirty industries should be encouraged to move to them. Mr. Summers has said the memo was meant to be sarcastic. “A ...1 week ago -
Forbes Columnists: The Recession Is Over–No Thanks To Stimulus
Stupidica —
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On Sunday President Obamas top economic adviser, Larry Summers, said the "recession is over." But in the next breath he called for more government action to stimulate the economy, in particular the pace of hiring. As far as the administration is concerned, it is government stimulus that brought us this recovery. Now ...1 week ago
