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Howard A. Rodman

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Hank and the Swedish Model

Howard A. Rodman | Posted October 12, 2008 | Business


When the world was about to cave in; when Hank Paulson assured us that the only way to keep the world from caving in was to do what he said, now; when he told us it had to be unreviewable or else-- What he said to be done was this:...

Nathan Gardels

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My Interview with George Soros: End of Financial Crisis Could Be in Sight

Nathan Gardels | Posted October 12, 2008 | Business


George Soros, the financier and philanthropist, is author most recently of The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What it Means. He spoke with me in Washington, D.C., where the IMF and World Bank are meeting, on Sunday.

Nathan Gardels: Let's talk first about the...

Martin Varsavsky

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We are not going to party like it´s 1999!

Martin Varsavsky | Posted October 12, 2008 | Business


Read More: Market Turnaround

When I was in college Prince used to sing "we are going to party like it´s 1999". Surprisingly that´s what the markets are singing now. 1999 was almost a decade ago but the value of stocks now is the value of stocks in 1999. If you had kept a...

Max Keiser

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Huffpost Bloggers Team up to Bring "The Oracle" Prediction Markets Show to BBC World News

Max Keiser | Posted October 12, 2008 | Business


The economic and finance predictions I've made over the past few years featured in the films I made for Al Jazeera caught the attention of BBC World News. Yes, "The Oracle" is coming to TV. Fellow HuffPost blogger Alec Baldwin is partnering with me on this project. If you have...

Steve Parker

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One American carmaker - Our best solution?

Steve Parker | Posted October 12, 2008 | Business


Over a week ago, we posted on this blog about the possibility of two, or even all three of the Detroit Three, GM, Ford and Chrysler, merging in some fashion.

Now our prediction is coming to life, a prediction based on our analysis of the realities of the world's economy...

Dean Baker

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Bipartisanship in the Bailout: When Does the New Treasury Secretary Start?

Dean Baker | Posted October 11, 2008 | Politics


The Democratic leadership agreed to sign on to the bailout from the beginning, risking the wrath of much of the country, including many of their core supporters. Given this history and the severity of the crisis facing the economy, how about a little reciprocity?

This one is simple. Why shouldn't...

Nouriel Roubini

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The World Is at Severe Risk of a Global Systemic Financial Meltdown and a Severe Global Depression

Nouriel Roubini | Posted October 11, 2008 | Business


The US and advanced economies' financial system is now headed towards a near-term systemic financial meltdown as day after day stock markets are in free fall, money markets have shut down while their spreads are skyrocketing, and credit spreads are surging through the roof. There is now the beginning of...

Mark Weisbrot

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Wall Street Bailout Won't Do Much to Help Ailing Economy

Mark Weisbrot | Posted October 11, 2008 | Business


It is now clear the approval by Congress of President Bush's $700 bailout package on Friday October 3rd has done nothing to ease the current financial crisis. Credit markets have worsened for several days after the bill passed the Congress. The stock market also plummeted to nearly ten-year lows.

So...

David Fiderer

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Right Now, Propping Up the Banks Is the Only Thing

David Fiderer | Posted October 11, 2008 | Business


"G-7 Leaders Agree on Principles To Confront Crisis, but No Joint Plan," The Wall Street Journal, October 11, 2008

Right now restoration of financial confidence isn't everything. It's the only thing. So for the time being, we can forget about Troopergate, hecklers at McCain rallies and the latest...

David Paul

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Credit Default Swaps, the Collapse of AIG and Addressing the Crisis of Confidence

David Paul | Posted October 11, 2008 | Business


Five years ago, billionaire investor and American icon Warren Buffett suggested that financial derivative products were "financial weapons of mass destruction, carrying dangers that, while now latent, are potentially lethal."

Five years ago, few people were paying attention, and even fewer understood what he meant. Even today, as the...

Sasha Abramsky

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Blaming the Poor

Sasha Abramsky | Posted October 11, 2008 | Business


I posted the following article on the Guardian's Comments is Free site yesterday. It says things that I think need to be said, about the moral crassness of the commentators who have taken to blaming poor people for the financial collapse we're undergoing. With the permission of the Guardian,...

Diane Francis

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How to Keep Americans in Their Homes

Diane Francis | Posted October 11, 2008 | Business


Washington should undertake a massive, temporary buyout of residential real estate in order to save its economy from years of turmoil and credit crisis, said an expert who helped bail out Canada from similar turmoil in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Here's is a scheme I wrote about in the...

Russell Bishop

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How To Escape Meltdown Mania

Russell Bishop | Posted October 11, 2008 | Living


If you find yourself freaking out over the current financial situation, stressed to the max and otherwise emotionally drained, this post is for you!

The sources of the current economic distress may be complex, or they may be simple, depending on your point of view. I'm of the mind that...

Martin Varsavsky

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Compensation Clash in the Making

Martin Varsavsky | Posted October 11, 2008 | Business


Salaries in the US government are low compared to the private sector. Salaries in the banking world are the highest in the world. Last year the top investment banks paid out $33 billion dollars in bonuses to their employees. The Average compensation among managers of investment banks was over a...

Robert Loerzel

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Another Banking Crisis: Chicago's Panic of 1896

Robert Loerzel | Posted October 10, 2008 | Chicago


The news from Wall Street is prompting a lot of comparisons with the Great Depression, but the history books are filled with other similar financial crises. Throughout the 1800s, when the government barely regulated the financial markets at all, speculative bubbles and piles of bad loans caused several panics. History...

Megan Shank

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Monstrous Deals

Megan Shank | Posted October 10, 2008 | Business


Another behemoth info tech company is buying majority shares of its Chinese counterpart.

Monster Worldwide buys 55 pct of ChinaHR for $174 mln BEIJING, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Employment website company Monster Worldwide Inc said on Wednesday it had completed its full acquistion of ChinaHR by purchasing a...
Joanne Bamberger

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Barbarians, Masters & Thieves

Joanne Bamberger | Posted October 10, 2008 | Business


Over the summer, I took my eight-year-old daughter to see the Meet Kit, American Girl movie.

For the uninitiated, Kit is the Depression-era girl whose dad loses his job, moves away to look for work and the family ends up taking in boarders and keeping chickens to sell eggs...

Mike Lux

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Guilt By Associations

Mike Lux | Posted October 10, 2008 | Politics


Cross-posted at OpenLeft.com

As the 2008 campaign enters the final sprint toward the November 4th finish line, both campaigns are framing their final arguments to voters. As McCain's poll numbers in key states across the country continue to erode, we've seen his campaign tactics change. They have gone into...

Alan Patricof

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Sequoia Capital's Doom and Gloom Prophecies and the Economic Road Ahead

Alan Patricof | Posted October 10, 2008 | Business


The comments made by the partners of Sequoia Capital at their recently held "CEO Summit" have been widely covered by leaks to numerous bloggers. These bloggers have disseminated the details and spread the contagion of the sentiments to the public at large, unfortunately running the risk that the...

Jeff Faux

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Let's Buy a Bank

Jeff Faux | Posted October 10, 2008 | Business


With the disastrous market reaction to his last bailout plan, Hank Paulson is now preparing to ratchet up the rescue by pouring capital into frightened financial institutions in return for equity shares. The intent is to sell back the shares as soon as the firms get back on their feet....

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