Archive for the ‘The Banking Crisis’ Category
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
It has been clear since the outset of the Credit Crisis (see “Mortgage Debt Crisis,” September 10, 2007 post, this blog.) that the investment banks were going to be regulated by the Federal Reserve. Secretary of the Treasury Paulson set a four year deadline to implement his then unspecified “update” ...
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
I spend most of my time in this blog raging against the storm of deceit and cynicism that brought us to what might be laughingly called the North American Financial System. But July 4th is a’comin, and it’s time to acknowledge that we live in the fairest, most egalitarian, financial ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Ronald Regan was the last President that realized how often the gut instinct of the average voter and the expertise of the educated few who openly share their reasoned beliefs spring from the same well. It gave him clarity and decisiveness we haven’t seen since. He had the rare courage ...
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
Most citizens, we are told, take a cynical view of both Wall Street and Washington. It has given life to the candidacy of Barak Obama, perhaps. Do people of experience with The Street trust Washington to fix the problem? I don’t. I’ll tell you why. We are addressing problems we ...
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