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A Better Way to Regulate Financial Markets
From sometime D&S author Thomas Palley, in the Financial Times's Economists' Forum series: A better
The Worst Is Yet to Come (Nouriel Roubini)
From RGE Monitor and yesterday's NY Daily News, Nouriel Roubini tells the unemployed to "hunker down"
Sustainability and Horsesh*t
Here are two items related to climate change that read well next to each other. One is from a magazine
Maybe We Were a Tad Premature
...in our choice of the next bailout candidate. And this one surely needs watching in the longer-term. It's
Next Bailout Candidate
And the winner is...The Federal Housing Administration (FHA)! Lest it be forgotten, as the article duly notes: The FHA
Yves Smith on Krugman on Jobs
From the fantastic Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism: Krugman on the Need for Jobs Policies Paul Krugman has a good
'Politicization' of the Fed (Dean Baker)
There's an interesting article in today's New York Times about how Ben Bernanke has had to
The Public Purpose of Banking
Maybe Goldman Sachs should have used some of its bonus money to hire better P.R. folks—the company has
Change Wall Street can believe in (Holly Sklar)
Hat-tip to Mike P. By Holly Sklar Distributed by McClatchy Tribune News Service, 11/6/09 Copyright 2009 Holly Sklar
Santa Needs Extended Benefits, Too
The October employment reports were released today, and the unemployment rate zoomed above 10%, to 10.2%, to be exact,
Brad DeLong on Productivity Growth and Kalecki
Here's a post from Brad DeLong's blog, with DeLong using lots of all-caps and some abbreviations
U2 Fans to MTV: 'Tear Down This Wall!'
A funny one from the Associated Press; hat-tip to Bryan S. Outrage over wall blocking free U2 Berlin concert By