Topic “financial crisis”
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2008-11-19
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A TARP report card
It may be years before we can judge the government's success in fighting the financial crisis. But an early assessment of Henry Paulson's Troubled Asset Relief Program is already taking shape. read
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Are Venture Investors Not Meeting Their Capital Calls?
Last month, we talked about how the financial crisis might impact the venture capital community, noting that many more limited partners (LPs, or the folks who put money into venture capital funds) were looking to sell their stakes in the aftermarket. Bloomberg is now taking a look at the issue, noting that more than double the amount of stakes is up for sale compared to a year ago, basically confirming that a number of LPs are looking to get out of their […] read
2008-11-18
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Research in Motion (RIMM): Smart buy in smartphones
[…] voice wirelessly. In its fiscal 2008 (which ended in February) the company sold nearly 14 million devices (more than double the year before). "Recently, though, the financial crisis has dealt a strong blow to the company. Investors doubt whether RIMM can repeat the 90% growth in revenues that it achieved in fiscal 2008. "Not only is the slowing economy a threat to growth but so is increased competition. Apple's iPhone, for example, has been a hit among consumers and now the company is […] read
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The government’s response to the financial crisis and 9/11 compared.
A paper (coauthored with Adrian Vermeule) is here; some of the ideas I contributed to it originated as posts on this blog. The abstract follows.... read
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Suckers And Transparency: Preventing Another Financial Crisis
In continuing to try to understand the root causes of the financial crisis, we find that the whole story just keeps getting more interesting. While lots of folks are trying to blame one single thing (free markets, regulations, greed, poor people, rich people, bankers, mortgage lenders, hedge funds, short sellers, the President, Congress, etc.), the truth is that almost all of those explanations aren't just wrong, they're highly […] read
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Academic Stimulus Package [Uncertain Principles]
Regarding the current financial crisis, a consensus has developed that the government needs to do something, and do something dramatic. The argument is, basically, that the normal sources of cash flow that might stimulate the economy out of recession have dried up, either through idiotic investments, or out of fear caused by all the idiotic investments. The government, then, is the only entity with the financial resources needed to get things moving, and they should be […] read
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Al-Sadr's Demands
Muqtada al-Sadr is very clever, making firey demands that the US agree to conditions for the status of forces agreement that both sides had pretty much agreed on anyway. It's like if the GOP started demanding that the President-elect come up with plans for dealng with the financial crisis. Always nice to able to say that the oppostion acted in response to your urgent calls for action. It's funny that we ever thought we had to teach the Iraqis about politics. But is al-Sadr fooling anyone? read
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A Look Inside Two Central Banks: The European Central Bank And The Federal Reserve
[…] comparing and contrasting their basic structure and management from the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank's magazine Review (blue ribbon for Most Generic Magazine Title). Author Patricia S. Pollard is now with the IMF. One detail I picked out that is no longer valid is that beginning last month the Fed began paying interest on excess reserve balances. (Originally not scheduled to start until 2011, stepped up due to the financial crisis by the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008^.) read
2008-11-17
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G20 Meeting On Financial Crisis A Failure
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Worst Government Report on Retail Spending Ever
[…] mind part of this drop was deflation from dropping gas prices... so it's not a clean number - nothing from government is.Consumers, taking a beating from the worst financial crisis in seven decades, cut back sharply on their spending in October, pushing retail sales down by a record amount. The Commerce Department reported Friday that retail sales fell by 2.8 percent last month, the biggest drop on record, surpassing the old mark of a 2.65 percent plunge in November 2001 that occurred after […] read