RealClearMarkets Week of February 2, 2009 Archives

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Monday, February 2
The Myth About Moral Hazard
James Surowiecki The New Yorker
The 'Bad Bank' Plan Is a Bad Idea
Editorial Los Angeles Times
Stimulus: Too Little Bang for Bucks
Robert Samuelson Washington Post
The Stimulus Plan Must Be Stopped
Larry Kudlow RealClearMarkets
In Davos, Protectionism Is a Dirty Word
A.E. Pritchard Daily Telegraph
At Davos, Beware the Tide of Groupthink
Stephen Adler Business Week
U.S. Mortgage Time Bomb Needs Defusing
John Wasik Bloomberg
Bonus Controversy Ushers In Post-Bailout Capitalism
Editorial IBD
Washington Offers Bailouts for Bunglers
Paul Krugman New York Times
When the Old Bad Becomes the New Good
Bill Frezza RealClearMarkets
This Budget Deficit Is Different -- And Dangerous
John Tamny Forbes
How Government Prolonged Depression
Harold Cole & Lee Ohanian WSJ


Tuesday, February 3
Wall Street's $18.4 Billion Bonus
Michael Shnayerson Vanity Fair
Banker Pay Cuts: Why Are They Doing It?
Terence Corcoran National Post
Wall St., a Financial Epithet, Stirs Outrage
David Segal New York Times
Economic Enemies of the State
Locke Smith RealClearMarkets
Geithner Needs to Show Banks Tough Love
Allan Sloan Washington Post
Time For a New Breed of Banks to Arise
Niall Ferguson Financial Times
Job Cutbacks Might Cushion Profit Declines
John Berry Bloomberg
Signs of the Coming Recovery
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein Forbes
What Other Financial Crises Tell Us
Reinhart & Rogoff Wall Street Journal
Get the Infrastructure Thinking Right
Nicole Gelinas City Journal
President Obama Authors Liberalism's Capitulation
John Tamny RCM
Milken Is Still Seeking Redemption
Stuart Pfeifer & Tom Petruno LA Times


Wednesday, February 4
Stumbling On a Sense of Entitlement
Steven Pearlstein Washington Post
The Sorry State of Wall Street Compensation
Thomas Cooley Forbes
Mating Season Over for Banking's Alpha Males
Matthew Lynn Bloomberg
Government: The One Price That's Still Rising
Steven Malanga RCM
Time to Steer 'Forceful Course' For Stimulus
David Leonhardt NY Times
Stimulus: Less Keynes, and More Hayek
Dick Armey Wall Street Journal
There's No Shortcut to Economic Recovery
Bill Fleckenstein MSN Money
The Curious Choice of Judd Gregg
Pete Engardio Business Week
Global Warming Is Now a Punch Line
Deroy Murdock Washington Times
There's Nothing Scary About a Big Bad Bank
Daniel Gros Financial Times
Don't We Have Enough Bad Banks?
James Keller RealClearMarkets
We Can Do Better Than a Bad Bank
George Soros Wall Street Journal


Thursday, February 5
The Action Americans Need
President Barack Obama Washington Post
The Economy: First, Do No Harm
Diana Furchtgott-Roth RealClearMarkets
James Galbraith: Spend Now, and Spend a Lot
Pat Regnier Fortune
Obama's 'Screw Up' Puts Geithner On Thin Ice
Caroline Baum Bloomberg
Is the United States Going the Way of Japan?
Nouriel Roubini Forbes
Economists: The Forgotten Guilty Men
Anatole Kaletsky Times of London
Today's Mistakes Have a Familiar, '30s Ring
Tom Stevenson Telegraph
Wall St. Pay Moves In Cycles (Guess Where We Are Now)
Steve Lohr NYT
Bailed Out Finance Firms Are Now Wards of the State
Nicole Gelinas IBD
Bad Time For An Exodus of Street Talent
Terence Corcoran National Post
To Ease the Credit Crunch, Let It Be
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
The GOP Has a Dumb Mortgage Idea
Ed Glaeser Wall Street Journal


Friday, February 6
The End of American Capitalism?
Carl Schramm & Robert Litan American
On the Edge Of An Economic Abyss
Paul Krugman New York Times
Maybe, but Keynes Can't Help Us Now
Niall Ferguson Los Angeles Times
Keynes: The Triumph of Hope Over Economics
Benn Steil Financial Times
Why 'Stimulus' Will Mean Inflation
George Melloan Wall Street Journal
Will the Economic Dowturn End Gold Digging?
Elisabeth Eaves Forbes
Might We Have to Nationalize the Banks?
Editors The New Republic
Simple Rules For a Bank Bailout
Anders Aslund Washington Post
Bank Bailouts & No-Thought Regulation
Richard Rahn Washington Times
Obama Lobs One Up for Supply Siders to Hit
Amity Shlaes Bloomberg
Cap and Trade Will Hurt Consumers
Mark Perry Investor's Business Daily
We Didn't Privatize Social Security. Thank Goodness!
Eliot Spitzer Slate
Saturday, February 7
A 10-Year Stretch Thatâ??s Worse Than It Looks
Floyd Norris NYT
Fact and Fiction on the Stimulus Package
Michael Hirsh Newsweek
The Rise and (Almost) Fall of America's Banks
S. Jacobs & E. Mcclam AP
Taking the Really Long View
Mike Santoli Barron's
How Wall Street Wants To Solve Credit Crisis
William Cohan Fortune
Jim Cramer's Ten Reasons To Be Optimistic
Scott Rutt TheStreet.com
Are Dividends in Dire Straits?
Ben Steverman BusinessWeek
Just How Creditworthy Is The U.S.?
Tom Petruno Los Angeles Times
Capitalism Should Return to Its Roots
Carl Icahn Wall Street Journal
Sam Zellâ??s Empire, Underwater in a Big Way
Charles Bagli NY Times
Madoff's Mayhem: From Paris to Palm Beach
John Heylar et al Bloomberg
Those Closest To Bernie Madoff Got Burned Too
Liz Moyer Forbes
China Needs To Grow It's Economy...Or Else
Knowledge@Wharton
Monday, February 9
It's a Recession, Not a 'Catastrophe'
Alan Reynolds New York Post
But Current Policies Offer Very Little Hope
A. Evans-Pritchard Telegraph
Why Deflation Is Such an Economic Threat
Joshua Rosner New Republic
When Will It Be Safe to Rejoin the Stock Market?
John Wasik Bloomberg
Job Indices Down, Stock Markets Up?
Larry Kudlow RealClearMarkets
Centrism Is Weakening the Stimulus Bill
Paul Krugman New York Times
Good, Because 'Stimulus' Will Hurt Economy
Brian Wesbury Spectator
Settling Scores With Wall Street
Nicholas Von Hoffman The Nation
Stop the Bashing, We Need the Banks
Robert Samuelson Washington Post
Most of All, Don't Destroy Risk Catalyst
Lloyd Blankfein Financial Times
Failed Banks Would Be Better Than One 'Bad Bank'
John Tamny Forbes
Lehman Failure Didn't Cause Fall Panic
John Taylor Wall Street Journal


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