True Lessons of the Recession

Posted: May 4, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Financial Crisis, Uncategorized | Leave a comment »

True Lessons of the Recession

A wise essay by Raghu Rajan.

30 percent of Federal loan guarantees went to individuals with connections to the Obama administration (either fundraisers or staff)

Posted: March 23, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Bailout, Financial Crisis, Stimulus, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

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30 percent of Federal loan guarantees went to individuals with connections to the Obama administration (either fundraisers or staff)

Does Inequality Lead to a Financial Crisis?

Posted: March 5, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Financial Crisis, Inequality | Leave a comment »

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w17896#fromrss

Newest Fox News piece: Obama Has Learned Nothing From the Mortgage Meltdown Mess

Posted: January 4, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Financial Crisis, Mortgages, Uncategorized | Leave a comment »

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Newest Fox News piece: Obama Has Learned Nothing From the Mortgage Meltdown Mess

 

America’s Next TARP Model

Posted: December 3, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Financial Crisis | Leave a comment »

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-december-1-2011/america-s-next-tarp-model

Articles on financial regulation and innovation

Posted: November 3, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Financial Crisis, Financial Innovation, Financial Regulation | Leave a comment »

http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.financial.050808.114326

http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-financial-102710-144830

http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-financial-102710-144901

http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-financial-102710-144918

Can Tight and Centralized Financial Regulation Prevent Financial Crises? Czech Government Bond Seignorage in the Historical Perspective

Posted: November 2, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Financial Crisis, Financial Regulation | Leave a comment »

ftp://ftp.mendelu.cz/RePEc/men/wpaper/14_2011.pdf

Lessons From and For the Class Struggle on Wall Street

Posted: October 14, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Financial Crisis, Greed | Leave a comment »

http://www.forbes.com/sites/artcarden/2011/10/13/lessons-from-and-for-the-class-struggle-on-wall-street/

Wall Street’s Gullible Occupiers The protesters have been sold a bill of goods. Reckless government policies, not private greed, brought about the housing bubble and resulting financial crisis.

Posted: October 12, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Financial Crisis | Leave a comment »

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203633104576623083437396142.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

US Debt Crisis Global Economic Collapse

Posted: September 19, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Financial Crisis | Leave a comment »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEtBcBDgkKA

Why didn’t the stimulus create more jobs?

Posted: August 31, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Financial Crisis, Keynesian Economics, Stimulus | Leave a comment »

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/08/why-didnt-the-stimulus-create-more-jobs.html

Instapundit Talks with BB&T’s John Allison About How the Gov’t Caused the Financial Crisis

Posted: August 25, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Financial Crisis | Leave a comment »

http://reason.com/blog/2011/08/25/instapundit-talks-with-bbts-jo

Top 3 Common Myths of Capitalism

Posted: August 22, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Capitalism, Corporatism, Financial Crisis, Inequality | Leave a comment »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGPa5Ob-5Ps&feature=channel_video_title

Who are the Dogmatists and Ideologues Now?

Posted: August 6, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Financial Crisis, Stimulus | Leave a comment »

http://www.coordinationproblem.org/2011/08/who-are-the-dogmatists-and-ideologues-now.html

Reason.tv: Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Vernon Smith on Experimental Economics, Adam Smith, The Housing Bubble, and His Journey Towards Libertarianism

Posted: July 20, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Financial Crisis, Libertarian, Uncategorized | Leave a comment »

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Reason.tv: Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Vernon Smith on Experimental Economics, Adam Smith, The Housing Bubble, and His Journey Towards Libertarianism

 

The Stimulus Was a Failure

Posted: July 5, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Financial Crisis, Stimulus | Leave a comment »

http://www.coordinationproblem.org/2011/06/its-time-to-call-it-a-failure.html

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/biggest-keynesian-stimulus-slowest-recovery/

Who Watches Watchers?

Posted: June 10, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Financial Crisis | Leave a comment »

 

 

 

 

Let’s see, banks offer bad products, because many consumers are too lazy to notice and choose good products. So voters should empower regulators to make rules banning bad products, or at least overly hidden products. But isn’t it also possible that regulators might offer bad regulations, because voters are too lazy to notice and choose politicians who support good regulations? Why would voters pay more attention to choosing regulators than banking customers pay in choosing banks? And if voters pay less attention, how does adding this extra layer of choice improve the overall situation?

 

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2011/06/how-regulate-regulation.html

Recalculation in the Commerical Real Estate Market

Posted: June 9, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: ABCT, Fannie and Freddie, Financial Crisis | Leave a comment »

http://www.coordinationproblem.org/2011/06/recalculation-in-the-commerical-real-estate-market.html

WSJ: “Nearly 40% Who Borrowed Against Homes Are Underwater”

Posted: June 7, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Financial Crisis, Mortgages, Uncategorized | Leave a comment »

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WSJ: “Nearly 40% Who Borrowed Against Homes Are Underwater”

 

A Fistful of Dollars: Lobbying and the Financial Crisis — by Deniz Igan, Prachi Mishra, Thierry Tressel

Posted: May 24, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Financial Crisis, Lobbying, Uncategorized | Leave a comment »

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A Fistful of Dollars: Lobbying and the Financial Crisis — by Deniz Igan, Prachi Mishra, Thierry Tressel

Has lobbying by financial institutions contributed to the financial crisis? This paper uses detailed information on financial institutions’ lobbying and mortgage lending activities to answer this question. We find that lobbying was associated with more risk-taking during 2000-07 and with worse outcomes in 2008. In particular, lenders lobbying more intensively on issues related to mortgage lending and securitization (i) originated mortgages with higher loan-to-income ratios, (ii) securitized a faster growing proportion of their loans, and (iii) had faster growing originations of mortgages. Moreover, delinquency rates in 2008 were higher in areas where lobbying lenders’ mortgage lending grew faster. These lenders also experienced negative abnormal stock returns during the rescue of Bear Stearns and the collapse of Lehman Brothers, but positive abnormal returns when the bailout was announced. Finally, we find a higher bailout probability for lobbying lenders. These findings suggest that lending by politically active lenders played a role in accumulation of risks and thus contributed to the financial crisis.

The True Story of the Financial Crisis

Posted: May 15, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Financial Crisis | Leave a comment »

http://spectator.org/archives/2011/05/13/the-true-story-of-the-financia

Economists as Worldly Philosophers

Posted: March 21, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Financial Crisis, Mathematical Economics, Methodology, Uncategorized | Leave a comment »

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Economists as Worldly Philosophers

Will Massive Inflation Cause the Next Financial Crisis?

Posted: March 21, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Financial Crisis, Inflation, Uncategorized | Leave a comment »

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Will Massive Inflation Cause the Next Financial Crisis?

 

Fiscal Spending Jobs Multipliers: Evidence from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Posted: December 7, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Bailout, Financial Crisis, Keynesian Economics, Stimulus | Leave a comment »

http://www.frbsf.org/publications/economics/papers/2010/wp10-17bk.pdf

Fed aid in financial crisis went beyond U.S. banks to industry, foreign firms

Posted: December 2, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Bailout, Financial Crisis | Leave a comment »

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/01/AR2010120106870.html

Of Football Helmets and Bailouts

Posted: October 21, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Financial Crisis, Moral Hazard, Unintended Consequences | Leave a comment »

http://www.thefreemanonline.org/headline/of-football-helmets-and-bailouts/#

Video of the Day: Daily Show on NBER and the Recession

Posted: September 23, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Financial Crisis, Uncategorized | Leave a comment »

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Video of the Day: Daily Show on NBER and the Recession


Not a fan?

Posted: September 22, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Fannie and Freddie, Financial Crisis, Uncategorized | Leave a comment »

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Not a fan?

 

A Contested Exchange, or First Round Knock Out in an Intellectual Boxing Contest?

Posted: September 17, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Financial Crisis | Leave a comment »

http://www.coordinationproblem.org/2010/09/a-contested-exchange-or-first-round-knock-out-in-an-intellectual-boxing-contest.html

Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis by Johan Norberg

Posted: September 1, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Financial Crisis | Leave a comment »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ECi6WJpbzE

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