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The Motley Fool August 20, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Bail Forward-thinking solutions to the current fiscal crisis. |
The Motley Fool November 14, 2008 Alyce Lomax |
I Think We Just Got Mugged Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's recent comments about his shifting strategy for tackling the financial crisis have made many people wonder whether they're being robbed blind. |
The Motley Fool August 11, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Burnt-Out Workers Could Save the Economy What the fall in labor productivity means for our recovery. |
The Motley Fool November 10, 2010 Morgan Housel |
A Short History of Bank Failures Why the financial system is more vulnerable now than ever before. |
The Motley Fool June 17, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
Will Obama's Plan Lead to Financial Failure? Only time will tell if Obama's plan will lead to a better system or just a bureaucratic mess. |
The Motley Fool November 12, 2008 Morgan Housel |
China's Stimulus vs. America's Bailout Last summer, China was looking for ways to put the brakes on its searing economy. Now its government is spending a fortune to speed things up. |
BusinessWeek April 22, 2010 Tom Keene |
Tom Keene: A Chat with JPMorgan's Bruce Kasman A talk with JPMorgan Chase's chief economist about the economy and the outlook for jobs in the U.S. |
The Motley Fool August 25, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
Bernanke Is Sentenced to 4 More Years President Obama announced his nomination of "Helicopter" Ben Bernanke to a second term as chairman of the Fed. Bernanke is game -- but is he the right choice? |
The Motley Fool January 9, 2012 Morgan Housel |
A Big Upgrade for America's Jobs Market Finally, good news. |
The Motley Fool December 30, 2008 Alyce Lomax |
2008: The Year of Moral Hazard Rewarding massive failure imperils us all. Our economic freedom is seriously endangered by current policies that prop up failing, mistake-ridden companies and industries. |
The Motley Fool March 20, 2008 Chuck Saletta |
Ben Bernanke Is Destroying Our Financial System Lost amidst all of Bernanke's heavy-handed government intervention is the fact that, if left alone, the markets still work. |
BusinessWeek May 14, 2009 Michael Mandel |
Why Rising Productivity Is Cause for Worry The numbers may indicate that companies are shedding professionals - and that can undercut growth in the long term. |
The Motley Fool August 27, 2008 Alyce Lomax |
Fool Blog: Uncle Sam, Please Let Something Fail! Someone, anyone, please acknowledge that we still operate under some semblance of capitalism -- let a company fail for a change. |
The Motley Fool June 22, 2009 Alyce Lomax |
The Other Great Depression We need to realize that our economy needs to correct from the artificiality of a massive bubble, that government intervention is unsustainable and maybe even harmful, and that what we need most of all is to get our entrepreneurial spirit back. |
The Motley Fool March 12, 2009 Alyce Lomax |
Someone Has to Stop Obamanomics Now The new president's policies may destroy the very things we require for recovery. |
The Motley Fool September 28, 2011 Matt Koppenheffer |
It's High Time for Companies to Start Adding Jobs Employment growth has been seriously disappointing so far, but the growth may be just getting started. |
The Motley Fool March 24, 2011 Gretchen Wilmoth |
Investing in Smaller Banking What affects will new regulations have on smaller banks? |
The Motley Fool July 9, 2008 Rich Duprey |
Getting Burned by Bernanke His proposal to expand the Fed's power might incinerate the economy. |
The Motley Fool October 17, 2008 Alyce Lomax |
Dirty Little Secrets of the Financial Crisis If, or when, the American consumer realizes how unsustainable their debt-fueled lifestyle has been, the economy will contract, and hard. |
Reason July 2009 Randazzo et al. |
Turning Japanese Japan's post-bubble policies produced a "lost decade." So why is President Obama emulating them? |
Finance & Development December 2010 |
Stimulus Worked Without the quick and massive policy response, the Great Recession might still plague the United States. |
BusinessWeek October 20, 2003 Cooper & Madigan |
U.S.: A Jobs Recovery, Yes. A Hiring Boom, No. Intense cost pressures and weak pricing will keep payrolls from surging |
The Motley Fool September 17, 2010 Ed Salwin |
Why the Stock Market Can Go Up Forever It's a thing called productivity. |
BusinessWeek November 25, 2009 Jane Sasseen |
The Slow Road to Jobs In recent recessions, employment has taken longer and longer to return. Why this lag may be the longest |
The Motley Fool May 13, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Long Live Too Big to Fail A panel of experts weighs in on big banks and the economic crisis. |
The Motley Fool April 27, 2009 Alyce Lomax |
Con Games Don't Build Trust In its bailout fervor, has the government lost sight of logic and abandoned the crucial concept of letting businesses reap what they sow? |
The Motley Fool November 24, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Citigroup Comes Back for Seconds Barely more than a month after receiving a $25 billion injection from the Treasury, a one-week swoon in its stock price sent Citi limping back to the Treasury, hat in hand, for second helpings. |
BusinessWeek October 15, 2009 James C. Cooper |
Business Outloook: The Waning Threat of Deflation The recovery is starting to reverse many trends putting downward pressure on prices and wages, paving the way for the Fed to begin tightening in 2010 |
BusinessWeek November 24, 2003 Cooper & Madigan |
U.S.: The Jobless Recovery: Kiss It Good-Bye More demand and smaller productivity gains will boost payrolls. |
The Motley Fool March 17, 2009 Caplinger & Bylund |
Who's More to Blame: Ben Bernanke or Credit Derivatives? March Madness series: The derivatives that are behind this debacle have been around a lot longer than the three years that Bernanke has headed the Fed. Are they to blame? Or should Ben Bernanke have been more direct in calling for changes to be made? |
Reason Aug/Sep 2009 Jeffrey A. Miron |
The Case for Doing Nothing The only plausible argument for bailing out banks crumbles on close examination. The empirical problem with the claim that bank failures destroy intermediation capital is that there isn't strong evidence to support it. |
Finance & Development December 2009 Hyun-Sung Khang |
Surviving the Third Wave After the financial and economic crises, a "third wave" is engulfing the labor market, leaving millions without work and changing the course of their lives. |
The Motley Fool December 31, 2008 Katrina Chan |
Reviewing 2008, Predicting 2009 The Fool looks back at the year that was, and ahead to the year to be. |
BusinessWeek December 22, 2003 Cooper & Madigan |
U.S. GDP Revisions: The Recovery's Lift Is Slower For Workers The much anticipated U.S. rewrite of economic history hardly alters perceptions of the recent past. But the data do give reasons to be optimistic about the future. |
The Motley Fool December 18, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
Banker Pay Is a Huge Canard Banker pay has been a big focus lately, but it probably shouldn't be. |
Finance & Development September 2010 Ceyda Oner |
Back to Basics: What Constitutes Unemployment? Earlier this year, the International Labor Office announced that global unemployment last year reached the highest level on record. More than 200 million people, 7 percent of the global workforce, were looking for jobs in 2009. |
The Motley Fool November 26, 2008 Christopher Barker |
$3.9 Trillion Was a Drop in the Bucket Keeping a tally of total outlays puts the unfathomable scale of the crisis in context. |
BusinessWeek February 24, 2011 Charlie Rose |
Charlie Rose Talks to Nassim Taleb The Black Swan's author saw that spiraling risk in financial markets could spark a global crisis. Now he's warning of the risk in delaying deficit cuts |
The Motley Fool November 10, 2008 Rich Duprey |
A New Assembly Line in Washington U.S. carmakers renew their case for loans. But should they get them? |
The Motley Fool August 6, 2008 Anand Chokkavelu |
Fool Blog: Government Bailout for GM and Ford? Bloomberg reports that a Michigan Congressman is seeking to speed up the implementation of a $25 billion loan program for the U.S. automakers. |
The Motley Fool July 6, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Picture of the Day: Corporate America Is Back! Actual, in-the-books business profits are back -- and they're already higher than the previous peak reached in 2006. |
Reason June 2008 Donald J. Boudreaux |
The Coming Recession Seven observers debate the (sorry) state of the economy. |
BusinessWeek March 19, 2007 Michael Mandel |
The Real Threat Isn't Housing If productivity growth keeps sliding, a widespread crisis could be next. |
The Motley Fool October 8, 2009 Jennifer Schonberger |
We Haven't Learned Lehman's Lesson Yet Economist Simon Johnson reflects on the financial crisis. |
BusinessWeek October 29, 2009 Laura D'Andrea Tyson |
Jobs Now, Deficit Reduction Later The U.S. economy still needs fiscal stimulus. Attack the debt once demand returns. |
The Motley Fool September 28, 2011 Morgan Housel |
3 Things Holding Back Jobs You Didn't Know About Digging past the headlines and into the nuance. |
BusinessWeek October 20, 2003 Gary S. Becker |
The Productivity Boom Is Just Warming Up In the past, productivity almost always fell during recessions because both labor and capital were underutilized as output sagged. But the apparent paradox of the past few years is that labor productivity has grown even more rapidly since 2000 than in the '90s. |
The Motley Fool August 25, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Bernanke Will Take Your Shares to Zero Ben Bernanke speaks out about the "moral hazard" dilemma of giving firms the perception of being "too big to fail." |
BusinessWeek April 8, 2010 Mike Dorning |
Why the Obama Plan Is Working Polls say the economy is heading in the wrong direction. Markets say it's back on track. This time, the markets are right. |
The Motley Fool September 9, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
One Year Later: The Big Risk We're Still Facing This fundamental risk is larger than ever. Banks that are "too big to fail" benefit from an implicit taxpayer subsidy since their funding costs do not adequately reflect the risk of failure. |