Ezra Klein Archive: Financial Crisis

The government hearts debt

The ongoing economic crisis has been, in every way, a crisis of debt. The banks were brought down by mortgage debt. Wall Street -- and, quite nearly, the economy -- was brought down by leverage. But as James Surowiecki writes,...

By Ezra Klein  |  November 18, 2009; 7:12 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (9)
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Cutting bankers' pay

The Obama administration is getting serious on bankers' pay: The Obama administration plans to order companies that have received exceptionally large amounts of bailout money from the government to slash compensation for their highest-paid executives by about half on average,...

By Ezra Klein  |  October 22, 2009; 11:29 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (11)
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Wall Street Loves Money

It's a bad time for the country, but struggling Americans can take some comfort in knowing that Wall Street is finally having fun again. According to the Wall Street Journal, "major U.S. banks and securities firms are on pace...

By Ezra Klein  |  October 14, 2009; 3:35 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (10)
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PPIP Lives! At Least a Little Bit!

Mike Konczal takes a look at one of the first deals reached by Geithner's half-living PPIP program. The assets, in this case, come from Franklin Bank, a Houston-based lender who failed and got taken over by the FDIC last November....

By Ezra Klein  |  September 21, 2009; 12:42 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (4)
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The Bush Presidency in One Line

Former Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer has a searing look at the final days of the Bush White House in this month's GQ. It begins in the moments at the bottom of the financial crisis, when serious people were saying...

By Ezra Klein  |  September 15, 2009; 2:01 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (17)
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'A Peculiar Moral Code'

Steve Pearlstein took a long, hard look at the Mulligan Club yesterday. "[T]hey were the financiers who earned huge bonuses for creating, trading and investing other people's money in those complex securities that resulted in trillions of dollars in...

By Ezra Klein  |  September 3, 2009; 9:41 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (3)
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Older Entries in This Category »

Trust Matters, and Misleads, Ezra Klein , August 31, 2009
Long Slog or Snapback?, Ezra Klein , August 17, 2009
The Gender Politics of the Financial Crisis, Ezra Klein , August 6, 2009
The Next AIG Problem, Ezra Klein , July 31, 2009
Help for the (One-Time) Homeowners, Ezra Klein , July 17, 2009
Department of Faint Praise, Ezra Klein , July 15, 2009
Deficits Saved the World. But How?, Ezra Klein , July 15, 2009
Stopping Earthquakes, Ezra Klein , July 14, 2009
Worth Thinking About, Ezra Klein , July 10, 2009
Lucian Bebchuk on the PPIP, Ezra Klein , July 9, 2009
The Two Sides of the Financial Rescue, Ezra Klein , July 1, 2009
It's All About The Capital, Baby, Ezra Klein , June 30, 2009
The Importance of PIMCO, Ezra Klein , June 23, 2009
We Love Markets, Says Larry Summers, Ezra Klein , June 12, 2009
Reading Wolf, Ezra Klein , June 12, 2009
Mike Rorty Builds His Own Stress Test, Ezra Klein , June 12, 2009
Why Don't We Have DIY Stress Tests?, Ezra Klein , June 10, 2009
Derivatives for Farmers, Ezra Klein , June 4, 2009
Geithner's Plan Is Dead, Ezra Klein , June 4, 2009
What Will Become of the Federal Reserve?, Ezra Klein , June 3, 2009
It Could Have Been Worse., Ezra Klein , June 3, 2009
Is This Socialism?, Ezra Klein , June 2, 2009
My Colleagues Like Gambling Metaphors, Ezra Klein , June 2, 2009
Derivatives Defined. Thrice., Ezra Klein , June 2, 2009
Department of Good Ideas, Ezra Klein , May 29, 2009
Is the Geithner Plan DOA?, Ezra Klein , May 28, 2009
Does The Financial Sector Pollute?, Ezra Klein , May 27, 2009
The Bank of America Surprise, Ezra Klein , May 22, 2009
Should Ben Bernanke Roll the Dice?, Ezra Klein , May 22, 2009
Has TARP Worked Exactly as Planned?, Ezra Klein , May 21, 2009
Credit Default Swaps for Carbon?, Ezra Klein , May 19, 2009
The Repo Market , Ezra Klein , May 19, 2009
The 'Japanese Experience', Ezra Klein , May 18, 2009
The FICO Scores Seemed So Innocent., Ezra Klein , May 18, 2009
 
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