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• Hurray For TARP

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 438
  The New York Times Jackie Calmes relays the Congressional Oversight Panel’s audit of the Troubled Asset Relief Program: “Even so,” the panel concluded, “there is broad consensus that the TARP was an important part of a broader government strategy that stabilized the U.S. financial system by renewing the ...
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• Bailout watchdog Says Crisis Response Worked, Kind Of

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 162
  By DANIEL WAGNER AP (Why is this ASS laughing?) WASHINGTON – The government’s $700 billion bailout of the financial system helped prevent an all-out panic last fall but hasn’t met many of the targets Congress set out, a watchdog panel says. “Congress set goals for (the bailouts) that went well ...
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• George Soros warns against rebuilding same Humpty Dumpty financial system

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 972
  George Soros, the billionaire hedge fund manager, has warned against rebuilding the same financial system.
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• Baroness Vadera: I still have nightmares about the financial crisis

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 972
  Baroness Vadera, adviser to the G20 presidency, said some of Europes biggest banks have yet to "come clean" on their losses.
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• Unemployment: The bizarre prescription of L. Randall Wray – After note

  
  Re: The People — Authority: 128
  It struck us this morning, after re-reading this series of posts, that none of our arguments need have been made against Wray, since the logical fallacy of his views can be exposed with one question:How are the federal budget, and the current account deficits being funded right now?The answer is obvious: From a pool ...
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• Stiglitz: Too Big to Live

  
  Economist's View — Authority: 681
  When Ben Bernanke was asked about the "too big to fail" problem not too long ago, the WSJ Economics blog reports : Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke voiced skepticism that breaking-up big banks is the way to solve the so-called too big to fail problem... Asked for his thoughts on Bank of England Gov. Mervyn ...
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• Unemployment: The bizarre prescription of L. Randall Wray – Final

  
  Re: The People — Authority: 128
  CONTINUED FROM HEREIn order to really judge the astonishing lack of honesty in L. Randall Wray’s argument, however, we just have to peel back the layers of his argument that:The trade deficit represents a leakage of demand from the US economy to foreign production. There is nothing necessarily bad about this, so ...
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• Unemployment: The bizarre prescription of L. Randall Wray – Part 3

  
  Re: The People — Authority: 128
  CONTINUED FROM HEREThe question, of course, is not whether the Reagan budget deficit produced the foreign trade deficit, or whether the former was required once the latter emerged. The question is how it became necessary for the United States to run both a continuous federal budget deficit and a current account ...
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• The Treasury Expects Smaller Loss From Bailout of Banks

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 639
  The projected cost of the government’s bailout of the nation’s financial system isn’t as bad as expected. According to the NYT, the Treasury Department “expects to recover all but $42 billion of the $370 billion it has lent to ailing companies since the financial crisis...
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• Did Bank Executives Lose Enough to Learn their Lesson?

  
  Economist's View — Authority: 681
  Will the losses that financial executives suffered as a result of the crisis provide the discipline necessary to prevent excessive risk taking in the future? Not according to this analysis: Bankers had cashed in before the music stopped, by Lucian Bebchuk, Alma Cohen, and Holger Spamann, Commentary, Financial Times ...
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• Deposits in Failed Banks as a Percent of GDP

  
  Economist's View — Authority: 681
  Rolfe Winkler says suggestions that the current financial crisis was not as bad as the Great Depression are wrong and he offers this chart as evidence: He adds: If you add JP Morgan and Wells Fargo to the chart, it looks much worse. Goldman and Morgan Stanley don’t have deposits, but did have $2 trillion ...
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• ISTOCK ANALYST: Buffett And Geithner

  
  Everything Warren Buffett — Authority: 438
  By: Baseline Scenario Friday, December 04, 2009 10:11 AM Andrew Ross Sorkins Too Big to Fail sure is a page-turner; even for events that I already knew about in general, its full of new details and juicy quotations. For example, on page 508 it lays out the details of Warren Buffetts October 2008 proposal for ...
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• Savings Gluts and Bubbles

  
  Economist's View — Authority: 681
  Robin Wells says our current problems began with a global savings glut that was caused by "thrifty Germans, and state-owned enterprises in China – along with governments of other countries, of course, turning a blind eye to the escalating problems." And, she argues, if something isnt done to eliminate the glut, then ...
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• Freedom of Speech; Use it Wisely

  
  The Ingenesist Project — Authority: 126
  The recent Google quandary involving that most unfortunate rendering of Mrs. Obama led to many interesting articles about the invisible line between freedom of speech and profiting from indecency against another person (or group of persons).Among the more intriguing conclusions is that those who exercise their freedom ...
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• Fed Watch: Bubbles and Policy

  
  Economist's View — Authority: 681
  Tim Duy discusses the type of bubble-popping strategy the Fed ought to pursue: Bubbles and Policy, by Tim Duy : The Wall Street Journal carried a front page article today detailing changing views at the Federal Reserve regarding the policy treatment of emerging bubbles of speculative activity. Much of the ground ...
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• An Open Letter

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 158
  Mike Morin 512 W.10th Avenue, #2 Eugene, OR 97401 December 2, 2009 Mr. Kenneth Lewis President Bank of America Corporate Center 100 North Tryon Street Charlotte, NC 28255 Mr. Lewis and/or whoever (else) reads this letter: It is my sincerest Cynical hope that you all will read this letter, take it seriously, and ...
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• James Galbraith on the Crisis

  
  Economist's View — Authority: 681
  
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• XBRL: Accounting Geeks Get Radical

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 164
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• Limiting Fed Independence Would Impair Economy

  
  SDB Benchmark Real Estate — Authority: 140
  Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said removing the central bank from bank supervision and tampering with its political independence would “seriously impair” economic stability in the U.S. “A number of the legislative proposals being circulated would significantly reduce the capacity of the Federal ...
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• Taxing Financial Transactions--Not exactly the Heart of the Matter

  
  Red State Impressions — Authority: 113
  Paul Krugman proposes a tax on financial transactions as a way to discourage the day to day churning of accounts on Wall Street. Tobin’s idea went nowhere at the time. Later, much to his dismay, it became a favorite hobbyhorse of the anti-globalization left. But the Turner-Brown proposal, which would apply a ...
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