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The Motley Fool July 29, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Still the Most Powerful Companies in the World The unmatched power of the rating agencies Moody's and Standard & Poor's. |
On Wall Street September 1, 2011 |
Five Questions With John Chambers John Chambers, managing director at S&P's credit market services division and chairman of its sovereign ratings group, talks about S&P's downgrading of the credit rating of the U.S. |
The Motley Fool December 22, 2011 John Grgurich |
Fitch Says "Boo" to U.S. Sovereign Debt Fitch threatens a downgrade. |
The Motley Fool August 1, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Crisis Averted? The Latest on the Debt Ceiling What you need to know about the mess in Washington. |
The Motley Fool July 26, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Get Ready for a U.S. Debt Downgrade? The odds are higher than you think. |
The Motley Fool April 20, 2011 Alex Dumortier |
Roundtable: Will the U.S. Lose Its AAA Rating? Three analysts weigh in. |
Finance & Development March 2009 Carlo Cottarelli |
Paying the Piper The role of medium-term fiscal policy in rebounding from the crisis. |
BusinessWeek April 21, 2011 Charlie Rose |
Charlie Rose Talks to S&P's David Beers Standard & Poor's startled world markets this week by lowering its outlook on U.S. debt to "negative." Its sovereign-ratings chief defends the move |
The Motley Fool August 10, 2011 Morgan Housel |
4 Things to Remember About the Credit Downgrade A few thoughts after a wild week. |
The Motley Fool August 8, 2011 Morgan Housel |
S&P's Fumbles Have to Make You Wonder The massive significance of minor mistakes. |
Financial Advisor July 2011 Brian Perry |
Debt Battle Won't Destroy Treasurys A U.S. credit downgrade would hurt the nation's pride and unleash bad publicity, but the real impact on bond investors would be muted. |
The Motley Fool February 2, 2009 Christopher Barker |
The Scariest Balance Sheet of All The unprecedented scale of U.S. debt brings fundamental questions to the fore. |
Finance & Development December 2010 Arezki et al. |
Bad News Spreads When government debt is downgraded, the ill effects can be felt across countries and financial markets. |
Finance & Development December 2010 Baldacci et al. |
Getting Debt under Control In dealing with the aftermath of the Great Recession, policymakers must pay attention to the mix of austerity policies. |
The Motley Fool July 24, 2011 |
Unheeded Lessons: What Did We Fail to Learn From the Financial Crisis? A panel of thought leaders weighs in. |
BusinessWeek June 28, 2004 Glenn Hubbard |
The Social Security And Medicare Morass Entitlement reform in the U.S. -- and encouraging more private saving -- are essential. |
Reason May 2009 Nick Gillespie |
Will We Be Stimulated? Suspecting that there was more disagreement out there than the president was letting on, reason magazine asked 10 economists what they expect from the stimulus package. The results were not very optimistic. |
The Motley Fool August 5, 2011 Morgan Housel |
What the Debt Deal Might Do to the Economy Probably nothing good. |
Finance & Development December 2009 Baldacci & Gupta |
Fiscal Expansions: What Works There is a firm link between the composition of fiscal policy and the length of a financial crisis. |
Finance & Development September 2010 Laurence J. Kotlikoff |
A Hidden Fiscal Crisis A noted U.S. economist says debt figures seriously understate long-term budget problems in the United States |
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. |
Finance & Development December 2010 |
Stimulus Worked Without the quick and massive policy response, the Great Recession might still plague the United States. |
Finance & Development December 1, 2008 Olivier Blanchard |
Cracks in the System The Economic Counsellor and Chief Economist of the IMF discusses what he thinks is needed to repair the damaged global economy. |
The Motley Fool August 9, 2011 Morgan Housel |
A Reason to be Angry -- and a Better One to be Happy By S&P's account, Washington is the sole reason the nation's credit was downgraded. |
Knowledge@Wharton June 18, 2003 |
Fate Worse than Debt: Can the U.S. Deficit Rise to $45.47 Trillion? The U.S. government's future obligations outweigh its projected revenues so heavily that it would need a permanent income tax increase of 66% or the immediate elimination of all federal discretionary spending to put it on track for balancing its finances. |
Finance & Development September 2011 |
Fiscal Neighbors Canada and the United States confronted growing budget deficits and public debt but the results differed. |
The Motley Fool April 18, 2011 Matt Koppenheffer |
Standard & Poor's Lowers the Boom on the U.S. Standard & Poor's put a "negative" outlook on the U.S.'s credit rating. What does that mean for your portfolio? |
BusinessWeek February 17, 2011 Mike Dorning |
Obama's Budget and Its Discontents To Republican free-market purists, Obama's 2012 budget priorities smack of Keynesian interventionism. |
BusinessWeek January 14, 2010 William Pesek |
After the Stimulus Binge, a Debt Hangover Trillions of dollars have been spent keeping the global economy afloat. But now fears about the Great Recession are giving way to worries about something else: The Great Reckoning. |
Finance & Development September 2010 Mark Horton |
How Grim a Fiscal Future? For most advanced economies, both the near term and the longer term are tight, but there are ways to ease budget pressures |
Finance & Development June 2009 Horton & El-Ganainy |
Back to Basics: What Is Fiscal Policy? What is fiscal policy? And, how can fiscal tools provide a boost to the world economy? |
BusinessWeek April 8, 2010 Peter Coy |
U.S. Economy: The Case for More Stimulus The worst thing about the uptick in hiring? It could undermine a second wave of federal spending that may be needed to stave off a double-dip recession. |
Insurance & Technology January 28, 2010 |
Full Text: Obama's State of the Union Address The following are remarks U.S. President Barack Obama made during his State of the Union Wednesday before a joint session of Congress in Washington. |
The Motley Fool April 7, 2010 Thomas F. Cooley |
(Don't) Read My Lips: Higher Taxes Are Inevitable Given current fiscal realities, higher taxes are inevitable. |
BusinessWeek February 16, 2004 Michael J. Mandel |
Cutting Through The Budget Smoke Long-term growth matters to the health of the U.S. federal budget, and so does reforming entitlements. |
The Motley Fool September 7, 2011 Ilan Moscovitz |
Roundtable: What Should Obama Do? Jobs, jobs, jobs. We may have stopped the jobs freefall induced by the financial crisis, but the U.S. economy has been painfully slow to return to full employment. |
The Motley Fool November 22, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Congress: Doomed From the Beginning Why the supercommittee failed. |
Finance & Development December 1, 2008 Charles Collyns |
The Crisis through the Lens of History The current financial crisis is ferocious, but looking at history shows the way to avoid another Great Depression. |
HBS Working Knowledge June 13, 2012 Maggie Starvish |
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants Moody's, Fitch, and Standard & Poor's dominated the credit ratings industry for decades. Could the recession weaken their hold? |
National Defense October 2012 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Let's Face It: There Is No Shelter From the Fast Rising $$ Storm Defense faces a more than $50 billion reduction per year if sequestration is allowed to occur. Cuts through 2017 of 21 percent are less than the 35 percent reduction after the Cold War wound down, but sequester makes the cut totally arbitrary. |
Finance & Development June 2009 Eyzaguirre et al. |
Latin America: When Is Fiscal Stimulus Right? For some Latin American countries stimulus is appropriate during the global economic crisis. But for others the answer is less clear. |
CFO March 1, 2008 Edward Teach |
Thriller The federal government's annual report is not for the faint of heart. |
The Motley Fool July 29, 2011 Morgan Housel |
What You Need to Know About the Debt-Ceiling Crisis The countdown begins. |
U.S. Banker December 2010 Aneta Markowska |
Is There Room for More Fiscal Expansion? As a percentage of total spending, the amount of interest that the federal government pays on its debt is at the lowest level since the mid-1970s. This suggests it is affordable to spur the economy a little bit more. |
The Motley Fool May 27, 2011 Williamson & Moscovitz |
Timothy Geithner on Jobs, Debt, Taxes, Bailouts, and More! (Extended Edition) The Treasury Secretary shares his thoughts. |
HBS Working Knowledge July 21, 2010 |
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation What do Harvard Business School faculty experts who conduct research on financial markets and regulation and who, in many cases, have held leadership positions in the financial sector, think about the bill and its intended (and unintended) consequences? |
HBS Working Knowledge December 6, 2011 |
Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis European ministers and central bankers are preparing for a summit this week to save the euro and the euro zone by solving the debt crisis that threatens the world economy. |
BusinessWeek June 16, 2011 Rich Miller |
The Unreliable Predictive Power of Bond Yields Bond investors follow interest rates as predictors of financial crises, but it turns out they're a poor indicator. |
The Motley Fool July 21, 2010 Morgan Housel |
"The Problem Is Not Where We Are. It's Where We Are Headed." David Walker, Canada's former Comptroller General, speaks on the economy. |
BusinessWeek November 20, 2006 Mandel & Dunham |
Can Anyone Steer This Economy? Global forces have taken control of the economy. And government, regardless of party, will have less influence than ever |