The Financial Crisis
Recent posts from the D&S Blog:
- Nov 18 Ask Dr. Dollar at the JP Forum
- Nov 18 Bank Closures in 2008
- Nov 18 Layoffs We Can Welcome
- Nov 17 Naomi Klein: Bailout is borderline criminal
- Nov 17 Reid Names Elizabeth Warren to TARP Board
- Nov 16 Michael Lewis on 'The End' of Wall Street
- Nov 16 AIG Reputation Destruction Video
- Nov 16 AIG to pay $503 million to top execs
- Nov 15 $10 million gets you $billions!
- Nov 14 Closures & Layoffs (Nov. 9-15)
- Nov 14 The Bank of Michael Perelman
- Nov 14 Big Mac's Heart Attack
- Nov 13 Should we stop dumping money into a hole?
- Nov 13 More AIG Fun With Bailout $$
- Nov 13 Transcript of NewsHour Interview with Paulson
- Nov 13 Dialectic of Exaggerations
- Nov 13 The High Priests of the Bubble Economy
- Nov 13 Outstanding Analysis by Anatole Kaletsky
- Nov 12 Paulson Changes Tack Yet Again on TARP
- Nov 12 Fannie/Freddie Relief Plan for Homeowners
- Nov 12 Credit Losses To Exceed 10% of US GDP?
- Nov 12 Billionaires and the 'Great Recession'
- Nov 11 The Worst Is Far from Over (Meredith Whitney)
- Nov 11 Some (Belated) Thoughts on Obama's Victory
- Nov 11 D&S Piece on Historic Events since September
Earlier posts on the crisis:
- Nov 11 The Worst Is Far from Over (Meredith Whitney)
- Nov 11 Some (Belated) Thoughts on Obama's Victory
- Nov 11 D&S Piece on Historic Events since September
- Nov 11 The G-20 Communique
- Nov 11 Biggest Rise in Joblessness since WWII
- Nov 10 GM Shares Plummet On Analyst Report
- Nov 10 Synthetic CDOs and Merrill's Fall
- Nov 10 How Far Will Deleveraging Go?
- Nov 10 Lame-Duck Administration Still Has Priorities
- Nov 10 Words Can't Describe How Wacky This Is
- Nov 10 $600 Billion Plan: Not Enough to Sustain Rally
- Nov 10 Closures & Layoffs (Nov. 2-8)
- Nov 10 Notes on the Foreclosure Crisis (T. Weisskopf)
- Nov 10 The Politics of Studs Terkel (Roger Ebert)
- Nov 10 The Maximum-Strength Remedy (Robert Reich)
- Nov 7 No GM/Chrysler Deal
- Nov 7 Good Review of Subprime
- Nov 7 Black Jobless Rate: 11.1% In October
- Nov 7 Can Obama Be FDR? (Bob Kuttner)
- Nov 7 2-Day Downturn and Hedge Fund Redmptions
- Nov 7 Horrific Retail Sales; More Bankruptcies?
- Nov 7 On The Ratings Agencies
- Nov 7 And If That Didn't Impress You...
- Nov 7 Far Worse Than Thought
- Nov 6 Good Survey: How Bad in Emerging Markets?
- Nov 6 Co-centric Vicious Cycles
- Nov 5 Yves Smith on a Big Puzzle
- Nov 5 LIBOR: Still Stuck
- Nov 5 Post-Election Hangover (short)
- Nov 5 Shift in Economic Thinking (Lawrence Mishel)
- Nov 4 Good Piece on Finance
- Nov 4 A LIBOR Primer
- Nov 4 Spoilsport
- Nov 4 Bank Failures And Presidential Transitions
- Nov 4 'You Can't Make This Stuff Up...'
- Nov 3 GM Chrysler Deal Would Cause Massive Layoffs
- Nov 3 Kaletsky: Transition to Begin Immediately
- Nov 3 PE: Bankruptcy 'n Things 'R' Us
- Nov 3 How to Thaw Credit, Now and Forever
- Nov 2 If You Could Use a Laugh About Now...
- Nov 2 Trade Deterioration Continues
- Nov 2 Uncle Sam v. McWorld
- Nov 2 Positive Drivers in Negative Environment
- Nov 1 Jumping Before They Could Be Pushed
- Nov 1 How the Other Half Recapitalizes
- Nov 1 Not Just an American Problem
- Nov 1 Protesters Disrupt Frankfurt Stock Exchange
- Nov 1 Teamsters to Own Part of WonderBread?
- Nov 1 Studs Terkel dies
- Nov 1 Closures & Layoffs (Oct 26-Nov 1)
- Oct 31 Lessons From Japan
- Oct 31 Naomi Klein on US Recapitalization
- Oct 31 Demand from New Admin: Claw This Back!
- Oct 31 This Isn't Even Funny Anymore
- Oct 31 Barney Frank's JP Morgan Chase Connection
- Oct 30 Another Taxpayer Bailout Swindle
- Oct 30 U.S. Consumers Shop, Drop
- Oct 30 Banks Spend Cash On Dividends, Not Loans
- Oct 30 Humble Pie Chart
- Oct 30 Singing for Our Salvation
- Oct 29 Swap Lines Extended To At-Risk Countries
- Oct 29 Commercial Paper (Max Fraad Wolff)
- Oct 29 Movement on the Bailout Front
- Oct 29 Explaining Yesterday's Mega-Rally
- Oct 29 Was Wall Street's Banking Crisis Predictable?
- Oct 29 A Financial Meltdown 30 Years in the Making
- Oct 28 Closures & Layoffs (Oct. 19-25)
- Oct 28 Something Has To Give
- Oct 28 Bank of England Doubles Bailout Estimate
- Oct 28 Letters of Credit and Trade Finance Freeze
- Oct 28 The Alchemy of Finance
- Oct 28 Dumb (Ideology) and Dumber (Modelling)
- Oct 27 Asia and the Meltdown of American Finance
- Oct 27 Related Post on Fed Balance Sheet
- Oct 27 Fed Balance Sheet and Inflation
- Oct 27 Safe Haven Musical Chairs...
- Oct 27 Here We Go Again
- Oct 26 Desperate Measures
- Oct 26 Good Basic Article on Leverage and the Crisis
- Oct 26 Crisis Focus Turn: To Currencies, and Europe
- Oct 26 View from UK: US Joins UK on Recession Brink
- Oct 25 Wall Street and the Return of the Repressed
- Oct 25 Bailedout Cash for Acquisition, Not Loans
- Oct 25 Recapitalization: A Sisyphean Task
- Oct 25 Carry Trade: Key To Understanding Crisis
- Oct 25 Interpreting Friday's Craziness
- Oct 25 Capitalism with American Characteristics
- Oct 24 It Wasn't Just an Overreaction
- Oct 24 AIG Keeps Sinking
- Oct 24 Dean Baker: Why Economists Get It Wrong
- Oct 24 Chrysler Slashes Workforce
- Oct 24 A Chronology of Today's Events
- Oct 24 In Defense of Low-Income Homeownership
- Oct 24 This Could Save Us -- Today, Anyway
- Oct 24 What To Expect Today?
- Oct 24 Black Friday?
- Oct 23 Notes on the Financial Crisis (T. Weisskopf)
- Oct 23 Automakers Ditch Jobs, 401Ks, and NASCAR
- Oct 23 On the More Serious (Only Just) Side
- Oct 23 Greenspan Is Shocked! Shocked!
- Oct 22 NOT a Slow News Day
- Oct 22 Interesting Piece on Marx and the Crisis
- Oct 22 Something Good Comes Out of the Crisis!
- Oct 22 Banks Mine Data and Woo Borrowers
- Oct 22 Bleak Earnings Swamp Stocks
- Oct 22 More Bad News For Automakers
- Oct 21 Trading Places
- Oct 21 Thoughts from an Unusual Quarter
- Oct 21 Economic Positions of the Candidates
- Oct 21 Bernanke Endorses Obama [sorta]
- Oct 21 Obama and Paul Volcker
- Oct 20 It's Always Wise To Heed Nouriel Roubini
- Oct 20 The Worst May Be Over...
- Oct 19 Gordon Brown Raises the (Borrowed) Ante
- Oct 19 Bailout-Related Giveaways
- Oct 19 Financial Innovation in Desperate Times
- Oct 18 CEOs cause meltdown, take cut of bailout
- Oct 18 Subpeaonas for Lehman Execs
- Oct 18 Our Recapitalization, Your Problem
- Oct 18 So Long, Suckers
- Oct 17 The Committee To Screw the World
- Oct 17 Harley In Hog Hell
- Oct 17 The Wall Street Coup (Hossein-zadeh)
- Oct 17 Some Quick Opening Comments, Oct. 17th
- Oct 16 Obama and the Grand Canyon (Mike Davis)
- Oct 16 Two Nobel Laureates on the Crisis
- Oct 16 Spread the Wealth
- Oct 16 AIG Execs Still Living the High Life
- Oct 15 Dow Declines 733; S&P Tumbles 9% (WSJ)
- Oct 15 Central Bankers: Supply and, uh, What?
- Oct 15 Dow Declines 733; S&P Tumbles 9% (WSJ)
- Oct 15 Right-wingers: End of Laissez-Faire Finance
- Oct 15 Misplaced Blame
- Oct 14 The death of the Washington consensus?
- Oct 14 Keep Your Irony Meters on High
- Oct 14 Beware Banktron
- Oct 14 Mom Gets Screwed Over by Tiny Advantage
- Oct 13 Monday's Developments
- Oct 13 Real World Nobelist
- Oct 12 A Short History of Meltdown Control
- Oct 11 The Other Financial Crisis
- Oct 10 It's Going To Be A Fateful Weekend
- Oct 10 General Motors In a Ditch
- Oct 10 Iceland for sale on Ebay
- Oct 9 Dow Drops 680--Under 8600
- Oct 9 Hard New Look at Greenspan Legacy (NYT)
- Oct 8 October Surprise
- Oct 7 It feels good to be an insurance exec too!
- Oct 7 Damn It Feels Good to Be a Banksta!
- Oct 7 Why Fed Policy is Failing (Tom Palley)
- Oct 6 Perdition Postponed
- Oct 6 Lehman Execs' Golden Parachutes
- Oct 6 Dow Drops Below 10,000 (WSJ)
- Oct 5 Born-Again Democracy (William Greider)
- It's a Great Time to Invest! (SNL)
- Roll Over or Die
- Is This the End of US Capitalism? (Jerry Friedman)
- Bush Signs Bailout After House Passage (WSJ)
- California Credit Access Terminated?
- The '1979 Moment' for Casino Capitalism (FT)
- The SEC and Paulson in 2004
- Banks Rob People (Jim Crotty)
- Where will the $700 billion buck stop?
- Mark to Market Explained
- Bernie Sanders on the Senate Bill
- Wall St. Should Pay for any Bailout
- More Defense of the CRA
- Postmortem on the "End of the World"
- Auto Industry Hit Hard
- Gender, Race, and the Bailout (Cali NOW)
- Why One Congressman Voted Against the Bailout
- Bailed Out or Outfoxed? (Robert Zevin)
- Political and Financial Bedlam (William Greider)
- Time to Start Worrying
- The Community Reinvestment Act Didn't Do It
- Bailout Bill Fails in House Vote
- It's the Foreclosures, Stupid (NACA)
- Why Bail? (Dean Baker)
- This Is the System We Are Saving! (Kucinich)
- Paulson's Panic (Stirling Newberry)
- Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
- Gargantuan Bailout: The Sequel
- A Better Bailout (Joseph Stiglitz)
- Economists Question Basis of Paulson's Plan
- A Better Plan than the Paulson Bailout
- A U.S. Financial System of Our Own
- Saving the Financial System (Thomas Palley)
- The Bailout Negotiation Breakdown
- Boston-Area Protests against the Bailout
- A Bailout We Don't Need (Jamie Galbraith)
- McCain hasn't "had a chance" to read bailout
- More Resources on the Bailout (IPS)
- The Meaning of the Proposed Bailout
- Jobs with Justice Letter Campaign
- Resources for Action on the Bailout
- Just Another Wacky Day In Finance
- Bright Greetings Dear American--Paulson's Scam
- Is the Bailout Justified?
- Laughing All the Way to the Bank?
- Jim Crotty on "Market Meltdown"
- The shadow banking system is unravelling
- John Miller Disscusses the Crisis on the Radio
- Paulson Bailout Plan a Historic Swindle
- Sanders Comments on Economic Crisis
- Ownership Society We Can Believe In?
- News Alert from the WSJ
- Dangling On A Thread Whilst Pushing On A String
- Global Finance: From Brinksmanship to Barter
- Krugman Weighs In
- Luxury Marketers Brace for Wall St. Hit
- Take a Load off Fannie
- Lehman Next?
- Fannie and Freddie: The Mother of All Bailouts
- Bill Black on McCain on Fox News
- The Great Crash of 2008, by Mason Gaffney
- The Banks and Private Equity
- What free markets?
- A Stronger Social Safety Net Would Free the Fed
- Statement on the Bailout of Fannie/Freddie
- Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, Revisited
- Unemployment and Production Stagnation
- Race, Ethnicity, and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis
- Ed McMahon May Lose Beverly Hills Home
- As homes foreclose in U.S., squatters move in
- More Collateral Damage From the Housing Crisis
- Former IMF Head Condemns Finance Sector
- If You Liked Bear Stearns...c
- March unemployment numbers
- A New Deal for the 21st Century
- Peas in a Pod
- The Collapsing Housing Bubble
- Cockburn on Spitzer, Wall Street, and UFE
- D&S Author Bill Black in the News (Again)
- The Squeezing of the Middle Class
- Free Lunch, by David Cay Johnston
- D&S Columnist John Miller on the Air
- Washington's Double Standard
- A Cartoon Sub-Prime Primer
- McCain in Bed with Lobbyist; Public gets Screwed
- Recession linked to workers' rights
- Long-term unemployment warrants action
- Policy Paradoxes in the Financial Meltdown
- Accountability for the Crisis
- Economic Stimulus Essentials
- AFL-CIO Proposes 5-Point Economic Stimulus Plan
- Bush tax rebate: not effective, not fair
- March On Wall Street
- Sub-Prime Primer
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