RealClearMarkets Week of February 16, 2009 Archives

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Monday, February 16
Go Ahead and Save. Let Government Spend
Robert Frank New York Times
Deconstructing Paul Krugman
Francis Cianfrocca The New Ledger
The Economy Is Handcuffed by the Trade Gap
Peter Morici Kiplinger's
Geithner Pitches His Plan Across the Pond
Jesse Stanchak Slate
Why Facebook Is for the Old People
Lev Grossman Time Magazine
Death of Corporates Is Worth Investigating
William Pesek Bloomberg
Angry America and the Bank Bailout
Steve Fraser The Nation
East Europe Explains Meltdown
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Daily Telegraph
In Times of Crisis, Don't Forget Gold
William Rees-Mogg Times of London
Is There a Lost Decade Ahead?
Robert Samuelson Washington Post
Tax Cuts Are Great, But They're a Non-Sequitur
John Tamny Forbes
Tim Geithner Lays a Major Egg
Lawrence Lindsey Weekly Standard


Tuesday, February 17
Stimulus: The Triumph Of Faith Over Reason
Caroline Baum Bloomberg
Obama Rides a Brilliant Policy Wave
Bob Herbert New York Times
Is Obamanomics Dead On Arrival?
Paul Farrell MarketWatch
Jobs v. Protectionism In the Stimulus Plan
Moira Herbst Business Week
We're Already In a Protectionist World
Anne Applebaum Washington Post
Green Stimulus Is Essential
Ban Ki-moon & Al Gore Financial Times
Mean Reversion: Longer Than Your Life?
Redenbaugh & Juliano RCM
In An Economic Winter, Small Signs of Spring
Jim Jubak MSN Money
A Government-Driven Home Boom
Peter Wallison & Edward Pinto Forbes
Why a Commerce Job Goes Unfilled
Editorial Investor's Business Daily
Will Comp Controls Move Wall Street Overseas?
John Tamny RCM
Congress Gets Punitive On Pay
Lucian Bebchuk Wall Street Journal


Wednesday, February 18
Put the Ghost Banks Out of Their Misery
Nicholas Von Hoffman Nation
We Won't Pay for One-Way Banker Bets
Gordon Brown Times of London
Feds Re-Impose Loan Standards They Undermined
Steven Malanga RCM
Despite Gov't Mistakes, Recovery Lies Ahead
Wesbury & Stein Forbes
Helping the Most Afflicted Homeowners
David Leonhardt New York Times
Wall Street Is Still Searching for the Bottom
Mark Hulbert MarketWatch
SEC Killed Wall Street On April 28, 2004
Vanessa Drucker Fund Strategy
Cheering for Stimulus Buys Into 1930s Myth
Amity Shlaes Bloomberg
Obama's Stimulus Conceit Spooks Markets
Locke Smith RealClearMarkets
Where Wall Street & Detroit Intersect
Steven Pearlstein Washington Post
Wall Street Losing Hope for Leadership
Charles Gasparino New York Post
A Short History of the Nat'l Debt
John Steele Gordon Wall Street Journal


Thursday, February 19
We Own the Banks, Shouldn't We Run Them?
Michael Hiltzik LA Times
Tim Geithner Applies AIG Strategy to the Banks
Veronesi & Zingales CJ
Life and Death In the Banking Crisis
Francis Cianfrocca The New Ledger
Assessing Obama's Housing Solution
Alan Reynolds Wall Street Journal
Barack Obama's Mortgage Plan Is a Good Start
Editorial New York Times
Is Stimulus Bill Only the Beginning?
Editorial Investor's Business Daily
The Stimulus Plan Is Good, but Too Modest
Robert Scheer The Nation
Do You Know Where Your Food Comes From?
Diana Furchtgott-Roth RCM
GM/Chrysler: Back to the Well...Again
Dan Calabrese Northstar Writers
Driving Toward a Trade War
Philip Levy & Michael Moore The American
The Five Biggest Lies On Wall Street
Michael Brush MSN Money
The Collapse of the Capitalist Consensus
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
Yes, Because Laissez-Faire Capitalism Has Failed
Nouriel Roubini Forbes


Friday, February 20
The Global Recession, Graded On a Curve
Floyd Norris New York Times
The Market Is Shorting Obama's 'Stimulus'
Bittlingmayer & Hazlett RCM
Upside Down Economics of Consumption
Michael Kinsley Washington Post
Obama Promotes Bad-Mortgage Behavior
Larry Kudlow RealClearPolitics
Smoot-Hawley's Ghost Rises as Economy Tanks
Michael Sesit Bloomberg
Tim Geithner May Save the Day After All
Jim Jubak MSN Money
Bank 'Stress Testing' Is What Got Us Here
James Keller RealClearMarkets
Out With the Old Banks, In With the New
Alex Pollock The American
Greenspan's Serious Conflict of Interest
Charles Gasparino New York Post
A Debate: Paul Samuelson vs. Milton Friedman
Peter Robinson Forbes
Brown Shouldn't Target Banker Pay
Jamie Whyte Financial Times
Time to Cut Down On White Collar Crime
Thomas Kostigen MarketWatch
Deregulation and the Financial Panic
Phil Gramm Wall Street Journal
Saturday, February 21
The Beginning of the End for Investing?
Donald Luskin SmartMoney
Is It Any Wonder That the Market Continues to Sink?
Editorial IBD
Interview with Nouriel Roubini
Tunku Varadarajan Wall Street Journal
What Exactly Is Bank Nationalization?
Colin Barr Fortune
Citi, Wells May Offer a Way to Profit After All
David Reilly Bloomberg
First, Let's Fix Wall Street's Bonus Structure
Joe Nocera New York Times
Reaching for the Starbucks Coffee
Christopher Caldwell Financial Times
Service In a Shrinking Economy
J. McGregor A. McConnon & D. Kiley BW
Harvard's Endowment: When Genius Fails
B. Condon & N. Vardi Forbes
How to Lift a Falling Economy
Ricardo Caballero Washington Post
Winners & Losers In Obama Mortgage Fix
Francis Cianfrocca New Ledger
How California Became France
Matthew Kaminski Wall Street Journal
Monday, February 23
Why Not Just Go Ahead and Nationalize?
Paul Krugman New York Times
The Problem With 'Nationalization'
Gerald O'Driscoll Wall Street Journal
Nationalize Banks? Think Twice
T. Ferguson & R. Johnson The Nation
Obama's Stunted Economic Stimulus
Robert Samuelson Washington Post
One Pack of Losers Stimulating Another
Bill Frezza RealClearMarkets
The Economy Needs Stimulus Money: Stop Whining
Michael Hiltzik LAT
Would Keynes Have Supported Stimulus?
Arnold Kling The American
The U.S. Needs Major Tax Increases
Clive Crook Financial Times
World Economies Tumbling Like Dominoes
Bill Fleckenstein MSN Money
Cause for Optimism Amid the Gloom
Joseph Calhoun RealClearMarkets
Will Crisis Collapse the EMU?
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Daily Telegraph
Japan's Two Lost Decades Offer U.S. Modern Lessons
John Tamny Forbes
The U.S. Would Be Lucky to Mimic 1990s Japan
William Pesek Bloomberg


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