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• Barbara Hits the Nail on the Head

  
  Streetwise Professor — Authority: 131
  In his megalomaniacal effort to use the financial crisis as a Trojan horse to advance his campaign “on every front to increase the role of government,” Barney Frank is hellbent on fixing things that demonstrably didn’t break.  Even under the extreme stresses of the crisis.  Case in point: he wants to require ...
  3 hours ago

• Timothy Geithner on the Chopping Block

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 627
  Is it time for US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to consider resignation? As a result of his recent congressional testimony, shown in the video below, the topic’s now very top of mind. This pressure comes in addition to the recent Rasmussen Reports survey that shows 42 percent of Americans think he’s done a ...
  5 hours ago

• "Only a short while ago, we were teetering on the brink of global financial collapse. Essentially,..."

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 145
  “ Only a short while ago, we were teetering on the brink of global financial collapse. Essentially, what occurred was a crisis of unintended consequences: Misperceptions of risk and misplaced incentives led to misguided actions. The crisis metastasized in large financial institutions and spread through the entire ...
  5 hours ago

• "This vividly shows the risk of entering into interest- rate swap agreements. The world’s got to see..."

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 145
  “This vividly shows the risk of entering into interest- rate swap agreements. The world’s got to see what stupidity even the sophisticated investors like the transportation fund can get into.” - Christopher Taylor, former executive director of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board in Alexandria, Virginia, ...
  7 hours ago

• Brad DeLong’s five percent solution…

  
  Re: The People — Authority: 129
  Brad DeLong thinks there is about a five percent chance we will see a second Great Depression and there is little or nothing which can be done to avoid it:For 2 1/4 years now I have been saying that there is no chance of a repeat of the Great Depression or anything like it–that we [...]
  7 hours ago

• The Law School Shakedown Cruise

  
  Conglomerate — Authority: 590
  Ive spend a good chunk of my guest-blogging stint making dismal predictions about the future of law schools. In reply to Ushas post , the first thing I thought about is how these predictions will affect me. I waited a long time to become a law professor, and Im having a ball. So clouds darkening the horizon are ...
  9 hours ago

• "So, maybe Blankfein is sorry that his company is so good at wrapping up garbage and selling it as a..."

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 145
  “ So, maybe Blankfein is sorry that his company is so good at wrapping up garbage and selling it as a birthday present. Or, maybe he’s sorry he didn’t tell everyone (or even the company’s clients) that while Goldman Sachs was selling $40 billion in securities backed by housing junk, the company secretly made ...
  9 hours ago

• Guest Post: Fed-Covert Money Printing Alert

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 770
  Submitted by reader Don General This note contains an update on where Fed printing stands, how much is left, what the pace of purchases is, and when the program will stop. It also updates the Feds balance sheet, and its inflationary impact. This update houses some very important developments, due to actions at ...
  10 hours ago

• RECLAIMING SADNESS

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Or the Obligation to Be Up-Beat The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has announced that soon all New York City Metrocards will be stamped "OPTIMISM." Positive thinking, our unofficial national ideology, is becoming harder and harder to escape. Happiness and cheerfulness are good things, to be sure, as are ...
  10 hours ago

• Teaching Business Associates after the Crisis

  
  Conglomerate — Authority: 590
  Following my post on revisiting the " Contracts Crisis ", I am wondering how those of you teaching Business Associations and Corporations have integrated the financial crisis into your classes. Im sure that the crisis will make my end-of-the semester class on Corporate Social Responsibility even more lively. I ...
  11 hours ago

• Peter DeFazio Tim Geithner: Michael Burgess Tim Geithner: Kevin Brady Tim Geithner:

  
  Maggie's Notebook — Authority: 638
  Democrat Congressman Peter DeFazio (Oregon) told MSNBC that America needs a new economic team. Even Chuck Schumer says "the world economy is at stake"  Congressmen Kevin Brady (R-TX), Sam Brownback (R-KS), and Michael Burgess (R-TX) actually spoke the minds of the American people. See video below.   Peter ...
  11 hours ago

• "We participated in things that were clearly wrong and have reason to regret. We apologize."

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 145
  “We participated in things that were clearly wrong and have reason to regret. We apologize.” - Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs, quoted by Simon Kennedy in  Goldman apologizes, offers small businesses help - MarketWatch
  11 hours ago

• A Bretton Woods moment?

  
  The Morningside Post — Authority: 126
  UN Monetary and Financial Conference. Bretton Woods, New Hampshire US, 1/7/44 Source: UN/DPI At the end of World War II, the world’s powers descended on a mountain hotel in New Hampshire to reorganize the global monetary system. If the lessons of the 1930s, the Great Depression and the devastating war that ...
  12 hours ago

• The Contracts Crisis Revisited

  
  Conglomerate — Authority: 590
  Christine had a really provocation post  several months back on whether the financial crisis reflected a "Contracts Crisis" to rival the "Torts Crisis" we hear so much about. This merits continued discussion. The basic question is whether the financial crisis is forcing us to rethink how basic contract principles ...
  12 hours ago

• "What the good Professor is suggesting is that the Treasury doesn’t have to issue bonds at all. In..."

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 145
  “ What the good Professor is suggesting is that the Treasury doesn’t have to issue bonds at all. In fact, since the Treasury does control the electronic printing press, it could legitimately buy stuff with money it prints out of thin air. Sounds a bit like counterfeiting, doesn’t it? But, let’s step back for ...
  13 hours ago

• "While seeking concessions from the various banks, the Fed contacted the Commission Bancaire, a..."

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 145
  “ While seeking concessions from the various banks, the Fed contacted the Commission Bancaire, a French regulator, to request support in its negotiations with two French institutions, Société Générale and Calyon. The Commission Bancaire responded “forcibly” that unless A.I.G. were in bankruptcy, the French ...
  15 hours ago

• Vietnam and the Recovery in Asia

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 431
  Author: Suiwah Leung So far, Vietnam has weathered the global financial crisis surprisingly well. The following chart from the latest IMF World Economic Outlook indicates that Vietnam is likely to outperform most of its Southeast Asian neighbours in terms of growth rates for 2009. A number of factors contributed ...
  17 hours ago

• "We cannot control ourselves. You have to step in and control the Street."

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 145
  “We cannot control ourselves. You have to step in and control the Street.” - John Mack, CEO of Morgan Stanley, quoted by Andrew Ross Sorkin in his tweeter feed .
  18 hours ago

• Seize Your Leadership Day: Bad Leadership

  
  Leadership Turn — Authority: 425
  There is a dangerous assumption out there that ‘leaders’ are chuck full of positive traits and on the side of the angels, but I’m here to tell you that it ain’t necessarily so. Just as leaders come in all shapes, colors and sizes they come with a wide variety of traits, not all of them positive. But it seems ...
  18 hours ago

• The worst is yet to come: Unemployed Americans should hunker down for more job losses

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 542
  Top economic prognosticator says job seekers must face grim economic factsBY Nouriel RoubiniThink the worst is over? Wrong. Conditions in the U.S. labor markets are awful and worsening. While the official unemployment rate is already 10.2% and another 200,000 jobs were lost in October, when you include discouraged ...
  19 hours ago

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