PM Roundup
Friday, May 16- Bernanke's Bubble Laboratory - Justin Lahart, Wall Street Journal
- Central Bankers Re-Examine Hands-Off Approach - Krishna Guha, FT
- Color-Blind Merrill in a Sea of Red Flags - Floyd Norris, New York Times
- Asset Prices Matter, on the Way Up & Down - Randal Forsyth, Barron's
- Good Governance Is Good For Economic Growth - Dani Rodrik, P. Syndicate
- Reaganomics in Retreat - Donald Luskin, SmartMoney
- The True Blue Gents Of Finance - Robert Lenzner, Forbes
- Dollar Turnaround Has Bears on the Run - David Callaway, MarketWatch
- How the Next President Should Fix the Economy - Justin Fox, Time
- Change Is In The Air For Financial Superclass - David Rothkopf, FT
- Private Equity: The Year of the Vulture - A. Sloan & K. Benner, Fortune
- Carl Icahn: Ready To Pounce on Yahoo - Robert Hof, BusinessWeek
- On Central Bank Communication - Alan Blinder et al, VoxEU
- The Housing 'Crisis' Isn't, Really - George Will, Washington Post
- How the Richest Families Manage Their Wealth - Knowledge@Wharton
- Busting the Chip Cartel - Karen Gullo and David Dietz, Bloomberg
- Keep Hold of the Basic Rules of Finance - Roger Altman, Financial Times
- Our Great Economic U-Turn - Thomas Frank, Wall Street Journal
- Dollar's Decline May Have Finally Ended - Irwin Kellner, MarketWatch
- Pension Funds 'Diversify' Into Commodity Bubble - C. Baum, Bloomberg
- Is It Really Different This Time? - Randall Forsyth, Barron's
- The CEO's New Armor: Employment Contract - John Cassidy, Portfolio
- High Expectations, Heavy Disappointment - Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch
- The Seven Myths of Energy Independence - Paul Roberts, Mother Jones
- Market Sets High Oil Prices For A Reason - Martin Wolf, Financial Times
- The Best Companies of 2007 - Jacqueline Doherty, Barron's
- Central Banking Doctrine in Light of the Crisis - Axel Leijonhufvud, VoxEU
- Bill Miller: Humbler, After a Streak of Magic - G. Fabrikant, NY Times
- The Confessions of Barry Diller - Duff McDonald, Portfolio
- The Human Foundations of Financial Risk - Alex Pollock, AEI
- America Beset By Reaganism - Walter Williams & Bryan Jones, Forbes
- Round Two: Home-Price Erosion - John Hussman, Hussman Funds
- How Banks Can Put Houses In Order - Charles Dallara, Financial Times
- Inside Microsoft's War Against Google - Jay Greene, BusinessWeek
- Credit-Default Swaps: Weapons of Mass Speculation - J. Laing, Barron's
- The Man Who Saved (or Got Suckered by) Wall St. - Gary Weiss, Portfolio
- Why All Roads Lead To Inflation - Bill Fleckenstein, MSN Money
- The Biggest Housing Losers - Editorial, Wall Street Journal
- When Should the Fed Crash the Party? - Peter Bernstein, NY Times
- Moving Beyond Putinomics - Sergei Guriev & Aleh Tsyvinski, Proj. Syndicate
- Election Year + $124 Crude Oil = Silly Solutions - C. Baum, Bloomberg
- Why Oil Wealth Fuels Conflict - Michael Ross, Foreign Affairs
- The Urgent Need To Abandon Inflation Targeting - J. Stiglitz, P. Syndicate
- The Misguiding Hand of Statistical Models - Jon Danielsson, VoxEU
- The Financial Crises Of Capitalism - Samuel Brittan, Financial Times
- Obama's Faulty Tax Argument - Andrew Biggs, Wall Street Journal
- Russia: An Economy Of Clay - Owen Matthews, Newsweek
- The House of Jaime Dimon - Lisa Kassenaar & Elizabeth Hester, Bloomberg
- Ethical Finance Standards Must Be Restored - E. de Rothschild, Fncl Times
- Silver Lining in High Food Prices - Kenneth Rogoff, Project Syndicate
- Ethanol Fantasy Fuels a Food-Price Nightmare - John Berry, Bloomberg
- Turning Casual Jobs Into Lasting Careers - Robert Kuttner, Am. Prospect
- The House-Price Bust Has A Long Way To Go - The Economist
- Discussing the Dreaded 'R' Word - Evan Sparks, The American
- Overseas Opportunities Abound for Private Equity - Knowledge@Wharton
- The Farm Bill and Free Trade - Bernard Gordon & Sungjoon Cho, WSJ
- Misleading Growth Statistics Give False Comfort - Martin Feldstein, FT
- Avoiding a Disorderly Deleveraging - Luigi Spaventa, VoxEU
- Private Equity Funds Find New Ways to Compete - Knowledge@Wharton
- Rice Isn't Oil, Even If Some Asians Think It Is - William Pesek, Bloomberg
- The Stall-Out In Mega-Caps - Martin Sosnoff, Forbes
- Hard Times for Wall St.'s Little Wonders - David Weidner, MarketWatch
- Who Says Big Ideas Are Rare? - Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker
- Seven Habits Finance Regulators Must Acquire - Martin Wolf, Fncl Times
- MSFT, GOOG, YHOO: The War for the Web - Andy Kessler, Wall St. Journal
- Doubts Raised on Big Backers of Mortgages - C. Duhigg, New York Times
- Fannie Mae Ready To 'Feast' on Housing Bust - Colin Barr, Fortune
- Warren Buffett vs. The Black Swan - Pablo Triana Portela, Forbes
- Hidden Mortgage Risks Abound in U.S. Home Market - J. Wasik Bloomberg
- Loan Officers Don't Believe the Worst Is Past - Randall Forsyth, Barron's
- The Dollar’s Big Dive Inflates Earnings - Megan Johnston, Financial Week
- A Strategy To Promote Healthy Globalization - Lawrence Summers, FT
- MSFT Rethinks Its Internet Options - Delaney, Karnitschnig & Guth, WSJ
- Market Conditions Resemble January '01 - John Hussman, Hussman Funds
- Your Guide to the Housing Crisis - Alex Pollock, The American
- Seven Observers Debate The (Sorry) State of the Economy - Reason
- Worst of Financial Crisis May Be Over - Paul Krugman, New York Times
- Commodity Prices in Historical Perspective - Jay Bryson, Wachovia
- Global Warming Pressures Companies To Respond - Knowledge@Wharton
- Hank Paulson: Is He a Grant or a McClellan? - Steve Forbes, Forbes
- Ben Bernanke Takes One More Gamble - Julian Delasantellis, Asia Times
- AIG's Never-Ending Corporate Divorce - Roddy Boyd, Fortune
- Gold Isn't A Wise Long-Term Investment - Knowledge@Wharton
- Seeing Past The Chicken Littles - David Harsanyi, Denver Post
- Why Britain’s Economy Will Change - Martin Wolf, Financial Times
- Dollar Reserve Status Is Tale of Fading Glory - Michael Sesit, Bloomberg
- Let's Pop the Deficit Bubble - Will Marshall, Wall Street Journal