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November 2, 2009
The Washington Post staff share their picks for reading around the Web. Seriously, stop worrying about hyperinflation The Atlantic | Megan McArdle offers a voice of reason countering the fears, commonplace on CNBC and in the blogosphere, that the...
By Sarah Halzack | November 2, 2009; 11:35 AM ET | Comments (0)
October 20, 2009
The Washington Post staff share their picks for reading around the Web. The Dollar and the Deficits Foreign Affairs | C. Fred Bergsten makes the case that the decline of the dollar is necessary to rebalancing the world economy...
By Sarah Halzack | October 20, 2009; 12:05 PM ET | Comments (0)
October 12, 2009
The Washington Post staff share their picks for reading around the Web. 3 Questions: Robert Solow on the Struggle Ahead MIT News | What is next for the U.S. economy--and the economics profession more generally? Robert Solow, one of...
By Sarah Halzack | October 12, 2009; 10:30 AM ET | Comments (0)
September 28, 2009
The Washington Post staff share their picks for reading around the Web. Why China Must Do More to Rebalance Its Economy The Financial Times | Columnist Martin Wolf argues that China's efforts to rebalance its economy--toward domestic consumption and...
By Sarah Halzack | September 28, 2009; 12:49 PM ET | Comments (1)
September 21, 2009
The Washington Post staff share their picks for reading around the Web. Overcoming America's Debt Overhang: The Case for Inflation The New America Foundation | Could a little bit of inflation be just what the doctor ordered for America's...
By Sarah Halzack | September 21, 2009; 10:11 AM ET | Comments (0)
September 6, 2009
The Washington Post staff share their picks for reading around the Web. How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? The New York Times | Where did the economics profession go wrong in the lead-up to the crisis, and how...
By Sarah Halzack | September 8, 2009; 11:25 AM ET | Comments (1)
August 21, 2009
The Washington Post staff share their picks for reading around the Web. Finance: Before the Next Meltdown Democracy Journal | What's wrong with financial innovation? Plenty, argue Simon Johnson and James Kwak in a thoughtful piece in Democracy Journal....
By washingtonpost.com Editor | August 21, 2009; 02:33 PM ET | Comments (1)
August 14, 2009
The Washington Post staff share their picks for reading around the Web. The Confidence Game Project Syndicate | Harvard Economist Kenneth Rogoff explains how people have reached the wrong conclusions from the collapse of Lehman Brothers--and argues that the...
By washingtonpost.com Editor | August 14, 2009; 03:44 PM ET | Comments (3)
August 10, 2009
The Washington Post staff share their picks for reading around the Web. No More Perks Wall Street Journal | A sign of the times: New York coffee shops are pushing back against unemployed people who occupy a table all...
By Sarah Halzack | August 10, 2009; 09:38 AM ET | Comments (1)
July 31, 2009
The Washington Post staff share their picks for reading around the Web. Why Are Banks Holding So Many Excess Reserves? New York Fed | Economists at the New York Fed explain why banks have so much money parked at...
By washingtonpost.com Editor | August 2, 2009; 03:30 PM ET | Comments (1)
July 22, 2009
The Washington Post staff share their picks for reading around the Web. Measuring Our Misery The Huffington Post | How miserable are Americans? Here is a cleverly constructed index that tries to capture how much pain is being felt...
By washingtonpost.com Editor | July 22, 2009; 01:40 PM ET | Comments (1)
July 17, 2009
The Washington Post staff share their picks for reading around the Web. Don't Touch the Federal Reserve The Financial Times | Congress should be wary of steps that undermine the independence of the Federal Reserve, argues economist Mark Gertler....
By washingtonpost.com Editor | July 17, 2009; 04:07 PM ET | Comments (0)
July 9, 2009
The Washington Post staff share their picks for reading around the Web. Why Homeowners Walk Away University of Chicago | This study draws a few conclusions about why some people walk away from their homes if they are underwater...
By washingtonpost.com Editor | July 9, 2009; 09:35 AM ET | Comments (0)
June 23, 2009
The Washington Post staff share their picks for readings around the Web. What the Hard Data Show Money and Markets | While most pundits are still grasping at “green shoots,” Martin D. Weiss says the hard data just released...
By Sara Goo | June 23, 2009; 12:16 PM ET | Comments (0)
June 19, 2009
The Washington Post staff share their picks for readings around the Web. The Lessons of 1937 The Economist | White House Economic Adviser Christina Romer takes to the pages of The Economist to explain why the government must not...
By Sara Goo | June 19, 2009; 09:30 AM ET | Comments (0)
June 16, 2009
The Washington Post staff share their picks for readings around the Web. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Baseline Scenario | How far below its potential is the U.S. economy functioning? The answer has huge implications for what government...
By Sara Goo | June 16, 2009; 11:53 AM ET | Comments (0)
June 15, 2009
The Washington Post staff share their picks for readings around the Web. Rising Government Bond Rates Prove Policy Works Financial Times | Martin Wolf makes the case for why rising long-term interest rates are a good thing. The President...
By Sara Goo | June 15, 2009; 09:36 AM ET | Comments (0)
June 4, 2009
The Washington Post staff share their picks for readings around the Web. U.S. Household Deleveraging and Future Consumption Growth Federal Reserve San Francisco | As American consumers deleverage, it will slow economic growth; people will need to consume less...
By Sara Goo | June 4, 2009; 11:37 AM ET | Comments (0)
May 29, 2009
The Washington Post staff share their picks for readings around the Web. A Return to a Nasty External Dynamic? Fed Watch blog | Should the Fed move aggressively to combat rising yields on U.S. Treasury bonds? Tim Duy thinks...
By Sara Goo | May 29, 2009; 12:59 PM ET | Comments (0)
May 22, 2009
Neil Irwin shares his picks for readings around the Web. Green Shoots or Yellow Weeds Global EconoMonitor | Nouriel Roubini, who famously predicted much of the current crisis, thinks visions of green shoots in the economy are premature. Warrant...
By Monica Norton | May 22, 2009; 03:18 PM ET | Comments (0)
May 19, 2009
The Washington Post staff share their picks for readings around the Web. My Personal Credit Crisis New York Times Magazine | A New York Times economics reporter explains how he got in way too deep in mortgage and other...
By Sara Goo | May 19, 2009; 03:26 PM ET | Comments (0)
May 11, 2009
The Washington Post staff share their picks for readings around the Web. Bank Stress Tests -- The Written Part NBC.com | "Tim Geithner" gives Saturday Night Live viewers an overview of the bank stress tests. The Fed and the...
By Sara Goo | May 11, 2009; 02:44 PM ET | Comments (1)
May 6, 2009
The Washington Post staff share their picks for readings around the Web. Inflation or Deflation? Greg Mankiw's blog | Have trouble deciding whether inflation or deflation is the greater threat? Let some singing cowboys help you think it through....
By Sara Goo | May 6, 2009; 12:17 PM ET | Comments (0)
April 29, 2009
The Washington Post staff share their picks for readings around the Web. The Fetishization of Boldness New Yorker | James Surowiecki defends the Obama administration's handling of the crisis, arguing that much of the criticism amounts to a "fetishization...
By Sara Goo | April 29, 2009; 02:08 PM ET | Comments (0)
April 27, 2009
The Washington Post staff share their picks for readings around the Web. When Did Your County's Jobs Disappear? Slate | An elegant interactive map of where job losses have occurred--and when. Fair Pay Atlantic | Why do Wall Streeters...
By Sara Goo | April 27, 2009; 01:05 PM ET | Comments (0)
April 22, 2009
The Washington Post staff share their picks for readings around the Web. Irrational Everything Haaretz.com | An exceptionally lucid explanation of how economic models led the world astray--and why there might not be much we can do to prevent...
By Sara Goo | April 22, 2009; 01:10 PM ET | Comments (0)
April 21, 2009
The Washington Post staff share their picks for readings around the Web. The Economics of Structured Finance Harvard Business School | Paper explores the economics of why complex securities known as structured products have melted down so spectacularly. (PDF)...
By Sara Goo | April 21, 2009; 11:29 AM ET | Comments (0)
April 10, 2009
The Washington Post staff share their picks for readings around the Web. Ten Principles for a Black Swan-proof World Nassim Nicholas Taleb | The author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, offers his 10 principles...
By Sara Goo | April 10, 2009; 12:28 PM ET | Comments (0)
April 7, 2009
Washington Post staff writer Lori Montgomery, who covers business policy, shares her picks for readings around the Web. CCI Spring Meeting Lloyd C. Blankfein | The CEO of Goldman Sachs explains lessons of the crisis and his thoughts on...
By Sara Goo | April 7, 2009; 05:00 PM ET | Comments (2)
April 2, 2009
A Light at the End of the Tunnel Forbes.com | Nouriel Roubini explains why he sees a dim and distant glimmer in the economic data. The Financial Crisis: An Inside View Brookings Institution | A former senior Treasury Department...
By Sara Goo | April 2, 2009; 05:03 PM ET | Comments (0)
April 1, 2009
My Manhattan Project New York | How I helped build the bomb that blew up Wall Street. BofA Insider Lending Charlotte Observer | Bank of America vaulted into the top 10 banks for insider lending last year with an...
By Sara Goo | April 1, 2009; 01:15 PM ET | Comments (0)
March 30, 2009
The Quiet Coup The Atlantic | If the United States were a developing nation, what would the International Monetary Fund say about our financial condition? The always provocative economist Simon Johnson gives his take--and concludes that the nation's top...
By Sara Goo | March 29, 2009; 09:42 PM ET | Comments (0)
Feb. 24, 2009
Recipe for Disaster Wired | Felix Salmon has written a superb, and suprisingly readable, article on the mathematical models of risk that have torn Wall Street asunder. Inside the Meltdown Frontline, PBS | The companion Web site to a...
By washingtonpost.com Editors | February 24, 2009; 11:18 AM ET | Comments (0)
Feb. 4, 2009
Case of Sweden Cleveland Fed | How do you resolve a financial crisis? Economists from the Cleveland Fed examine key lessons from the Swedish example. Hazardous Materials? The New Yorker| James Surowiecki argues that moral hazard fears from all...
By washingtonpost.com Editors | February 9, 2009; 09:55 AM ET | Comments (0)
Jan. 5, 2009
Financial Crisis Timeline St. Louis Fed | A useful timeline and guide to the various rescues, bailouts, financial failures and Fed actions during the crisis. Ignoring the Oracles Wall Street Journal | A good analysis from the Real Time...
By washingtonpost.com Editors | January 5, 2009; 11:09 AM ET | Comments (0)
Dec. 9, 2008
Liquidity, Default, Risk Cato Unbound | UC-Berkeley economist Brad Delong has written a very smart explanation of what we know, and don't know, about why this crisis is so big. The Smart Grid Marginal Revolution | Alex Tabarrok of...
By washingtonpost.com Editor | December 9, 2008; 02:49 PM ET | Comments (0)
Dec. 3, 2008
Embracing Inflation The Guardian | Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff makes the provocative argument that some inflation is the cure for what ails us. Ads on Student Tests? USA Today | Desperate Times, allow us to introduce you to Desperate...
By washingtonpost.com Editor | December 3, 2008; 02:13 PM ET | Comments (0)
Nov. 24, 2008
Bernanke Grapples With the Crisis The New Yorker | John Cassidy offers a sweeping profile of Ben Bernanke, the man at the center of the storm. A Team of External Experts Economix | Princeton economist Alan Krueger has some...
By washingtonpost.com Editor | November 24, 2008; 10:39 AM ET | Comments (0)
Nov. 19, 2008
Paulson's Blunders U.S. News & World Report | Strategist Ed Yardeni catalogs what he sees as Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's biggest blunders in dealing with the crisis. Cut Workers or Wages? Library of Economics and Liberty | Arnold Kling...
By washingtonpost.com Editor | November 19, 2008; 06:32 PM ET | Comments (0)
Nov. 13, 2008
Economic Mobility Pew Charitable Trusts | A Pew study looks at economic mobility -- the opportunity to make more money and live a higher quality of life -- and why more Americans feel they don't have opportunities to move...
By washingtonpost.com Editor | November 13, 2008; 02:55 PM ET | Comments (0)
Nov. 11, 2008
Boom Over Portfolio | Michael Lewis chronicled the culture of Wall Street in his famous book "Liar's Poker." Now he returns to Wall Street to find the "scandal" he's been expecting for 20 years. Geithner's Lehman Angle The New...
By washingtonpost.com Editor | November 11, 2008; 02:33 PM ET | Comments (0)
Nov. 6, 2008
The Next Paulson? The New Republic | A thoughtful look at New York Fed President Tim Geithner, a leading candidate for Obama's Treasury secretary, and his relationship with fellow candidate for the job Larry Summers. A China Slump Council...
By washingtonpost.com Editor | November 6, 2008; 11:39 AM ET | Comments (0)
Nov. 3, 2008
Challenging the Crowd in Whispers The New York Times | One of the few prominent economists to correctly predict the housing bubble explores the reasons so much of his profession failed to. When to Cut Spending? Marginal Revolution |...
By washingtonpost.com Editor | November 3, 2008; 11:59 AM ET | Comments (1)
Oct. 31, 2008
The Fed's Next Move The Economist | The Economist gives a nice explanation of the Fed's actions this week, and walks through the technical hazards of the central bank cutting rates much further. The S Word EconLog | Arnold...
By washingtonpost.com Editor | October 31, 2008; 12:30 PM ET | Comments (0)
Oct. 29, 2008
Inside the Fed Meeting The New York Times | What really goes on in the meetings where the Federal Reserve sets interest rates? Former Dallas Fed president Bob McTeer takes you inside. Bursting Bubbles The Atlantic | A smart...
By washingtonpost.com Editor | October 29, 2008; 10:59 AM ET | Comments (0)
Oct. 28, 2008
Republic of the Central Banker The American Prospect | Brad Delong offers an elegant history of central banking in general and the Federal Reserve and current chairman Ben Bernanke in particular. Pendulum Swings Toward Regulation The Financial Times |...
By washingtonpost.com Editor | October 28, 2008; 07:04 AM ET | Comments (0)
Oct. 23, 2008
Decoupling Debunked The Financial Times | Martin Wolf says the idea that the U.S. economy could slow while the rest of the world chugs along has been put to rest. Don't Blame Credit Default Swaps Time | Justin Fox...
By washingtonpost.com Editor | October 23, 2008; 12:33 PM ET | Comments (0)
Oct. 22, 2008
Financial Crisis Myths Minneapolis Fed | Not everything you think you know about the financial crisis is true, note economists from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. (PDF) Volatility Perfectly Natural Portfolio | Felix Salmon at Portfolio magazine explains...
By washingtonpost.com Editor | October 22, 2008; 01:35 PM ET | Comments (1)
Oct. 21, 2008
Volcker Part of Obama Brain Trust Wall Street Journal | A profile of the relationship between Barack Obama and former Fed chairman Paul Volcker, who is advising Obama on the financial crisis. Stallion Fees Sink Bloomberg | The financial...
By washingtonpost.com Editor | October 21, 2008; 11:49 AM ET | Comments (0)
Oct. 17, 2008
Top 10 Credit Crunch Jokes A few are groaners, a few are inscrutable. A couple are hilarious. Warsh No Lightweight One of the key players in the government response to the financial crisis is a 38-year-old former investment banker...
By washingtonpost.com Editor | October 17, 2008; 07:30 AM ET | Comments (1)
Oct. 16, 2008
An Ivory Tower Thumbs Up The Wall Street Journal's economics blog surveys some of the nation's top economists about the plan to inject government capital into banks. 'Black Swan' Investors Are Winners The recent market chaos has been good...
By Bob Greiner | October 15, 2008; 07:30 AM ET | Comments (2)
