Sounds like a firm of City lawyers -- Krugman, Blinder & Co. In fact, it is half the panel line-up on this excellent film of the Princeton Economics Department panel
The progressive pressure group Campaign for America's Future - the left counterpart of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council - welcomed the House's rejection of the bailout and released
My note to Willem Buiter on his praise of the Fortis "nationalisation":
Dear Professor Buiter,
I agree that Fortis shows that the worry - expressed just today by Munchau
Yesterday, I (and many others, I imagine) were surprised to discover how polarised American politics really is. Tactical explanations of the vote abound--Mark Thoma points to Bloomberg's
There's a huge amount of excellent and important commentary on the financial crisis. I have collected together the RSS feeds I'm using in 4 netvibes tabs
Tony Curzon Price (London, oD): Gamekeeper Hank Paulson has asked taxpayers to put up $700bn of risk capital to spend on his erstwhile and future colleagues on Wall Street. He
I wrote the other day that we -- the collective, global, democratic "we" -- desparately need to take responsibility for financial regulation. I mainly had in mind our own shareholder,
I had not read Murat Belge's remarkable October 4th 2001 essay on Fundamentalism and reactions to it. Murat is a Turkish public intellectual and long-time friend of
Rein Müllerson, a professor of International Law, strips the Russian-Goergian war of obfuscating legalities. This is not a conflict about ``aggression, occupation, genocide, racial discrimination, territorial integrity, peace enforcement,
