May 14, 2012 · 0 Comments
By Marie Burns: In today’s New York Times, economist Paul Krugman joins the chorus of experts warning against allowing too-big-to-fail banks to engage in risky business, especially with other ...
By Occupy the SEC: Jamie Dimon’s plan to enfeeble the Dodd-Frank reforms, specifically the Volcker rule, has blown up spectacularly. Apparently JPMorgan was so confident that their interpretation of the hedging exemption would prevail, that they got ahead of themselves and operated as if this loophole were in effect.
By Jeff Faux: The Commerce Department released another depressing report on the U.S. trade deficit this morning, our monthly reminder of the huge gap between globalization’s economic reality ...
By Marie Burns: In his New York Times column today, Brooks speaks of his “belief” in structuralism: This is appropriate, as structural purity at the expense of cyclical controls is a belief system as strong and as fact-free as was 16th-century Christianity.
By Dean Baker: Just in case you thought that the failure of austerity in the United Kingdom and across the euro zone, and its rejection by ...
By Robert J. Samuelson: It’s being called the “battle of the beards” — Paul Krugman vs. Ben Bernanke. Both are eminent (and bearded) economists: Bernanke, chairman ...
By Dean Baker: Robert Samuelson had a serious discussion of Paul Krugman’s idea (and in his professor days, Ben Bernanke‘s) that the Fed could boost demand by deliberately targetting ...
By Sam Pizzigati: How can you tell a really smart rich guy from a really silly one? The really smart one would never spend four years ...
Nobel-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman spoke at EPI about his new book, End this Depression Now!
By Yves Smith: Adam Davidson is moving up in the world. He has gone from fellating the 1% to the top 0.1%. But bear in mind that ...
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