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The Great Financial Crisis: Bernanke and the Bubble
The Great Financial Crisis: Bernanke and the Bubble Ben Bernanke responded to Paul Krugman’s post last week, which agreed with my argument that the main cause of the Great Recession was the collapse of the housing bubble rather than the financial crisis. Essentially, Bernanke repeats his argument in the earlier paper that the collapse of […]
The Bank Bailout of 2008 was Unnecessa
The Bank Bailout of 2008 was Unnecessary Photo Source Xavier | CC BY 2.0 This week marked 10 years since the harrowing descent into the financial crisis — when the huge investment bank Lehman Bros. went into bankruptcy, with the country’s largest insurer, AIG, about to follow. No one was sure which financial institution might […]
The Bailouts for the Rich Are Why America Is So Screwed Right Now
The Bailouts for the Rich Are Why America Is So Screwed Right Now Did they prevent a full-scale collapse? Yes. Was it necessary to do it the way we did? Not at all. These guys got off pretty easy. (Photo by Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images) In 1948, the architect of the post-war American suburb, […]
Albert Edwards: Why We Are Destined To Repeat The Mistakes Of The Past
Albert Edwards: Why We Are Destined To Repeat The Mistakes Of The Past With everyone and their grandmother opining on the 10 year anniversary of the start of the global financial crisis, it was inevitable that the strategist who predicted the great crash (and according to some has been doing the same for the past […]
Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson Still Don’t Have a Clue About the Financial Crisis
Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson Still Don’t Have a Clue About the Financial Crisis NYT readers were no doubt disturbed to see a column in which former Fed Reserve Board chair Ben Bernanke, Obama Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, and Bush Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson patted themselves on the back for their performance in the financial crisis. […]
James Grant Responds To The Bernanke-Paulson-Geithner Op-Ed
James Grant Responds To The Bernanke-Paulson-Geithner Op-Ed Authored by James Grant of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer Wealth defect Over the weekend, Global Financial Crisis-era policymakers Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner and Henry Paulson brought the band back together to pen a New York Times opinion piece. After sharing their self-exonerating analysis of the events of 2007-2009 […]
Bernanke, Geithner & Paulson Warn: “We’ve Forgotten The Lessons Of The Financial Crisis”
Bernanke, Geithner & Paulson Warn: “We’ve Forgotten The Lessons Of The Financial Crisis” Late last month, the Fed declared that six of the country’s biggest banks needed to scale back their plans for returning cash to shareholders to strengthen their capital buffers, a striking reminder that banks shouldn’t be overeager to put the legacy of […]
Ben Bernanke: The US Economy Is Going To Go Off The Cliff In 2020
Ben Bernanke: The US Economy Is Going To Go Off The Cliff In 2020 It looks like Ben Bernanke is a Bridgewater client. Recall that earlier this week we reported that in the May 31 “Daily Observations” letter to select clients, authored by Bridgewater co-CIO Greg Jensen, the world’s biggest hedge had an ominous, if […]
An Inflation Indicator to Watch, Part 3
An Inflation Indicator to Watch, Part 3 “During the 1980s and 1990s, most industrial-country central banks were able to cage, if not entirely tame, the inflation dragon.” —Ben Bernanke Ben Bernanke began his oft-cited “helicopter speech” in 2002 with a few kind words about his peers, including the excerpt above. Speaking for central bankers, he […]
An Inflation Indicator to Watch, Part 1
An Inflation Indicator to Watch, Part 1 “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.” —Milton Friedman Have you ever questioned Milton Friedman’s famous claim about inflation? Ever heard anyone else question it? Unless you read obscure stuff written for the academic community, you’re probably not used to Friedman’s quote being challenged. And that’s despite […]
Danielle DiMartino Booth: Don’t Count On The Powell Fed To Rescue The Markets
Danielle DiMartino Booth: Don’t Count On The Powell Fed To Rescue The Markets The new Fed Chair may break from his predecessors The recent gut-wrenching drop in asset prices began on the first day of the job for new Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. How is Mr. Powell likely to react to a suddenly sick-looking market? […]
It’s Looking A Lot Like 2008 Now…
It’s Looking A Lot Like 2008 Now… Did today’s market plunge mark the start of the next crash? Economic and market conditions are eerily like they were in late 2007/early 2008. Remember back then? Everything was going great. Home prices were soaring. Jobs were plentiful. The great cultural marketing machine was busy proclaiming that a […]
QE…The Gift That Just Kept Giving…Is Now Taking
QE…The Gift That Just Kept Giving…Is Now Taking I know the Federal Reserve doesn’t effectively create money or directly monetize. I know this because then Fed chief, Ben Bernanke, told us so (HERE). But still, something has me wondering about that exchange, now almost a decade ago. The simplest of math. The plan to utilize quantitative […]
