RealClearMarkets Week of February 23, 2009 Archives

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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


Tuesday, February 24
Bernie Madoff: The Monster Mensch
Steve Fishman New York Magazine
The Disastrous Formula That Killed Wall Street
Felix Salmon Wired
U.S. Banks, and the Big Global Screwup
Terence Corcoran National Post
A Dollar Saved Is Not a Dollar Hoarded
George Reisman RealClearMarkets
Dollar Is the 'Looker' Among Ugly Currencies
Michael Sesit Bloomberg
Is the Stimulus Too Big Not To Fail?
James Henry The Nation
What Part of Stimulus Doesn't GOP Get?
Editorial New York Times
The Economic Growth Imperative
Daren Acemoglu The American
'Buy American', But Only Our Debt?
Editorial Investor's Business Daily
Why Mark-to-Market Must Die
Brian Wesbury & Bob Stein Forbes
Good Banks Suffer Bad Bank Mistakes
Amy Klobuchar Washington Post
Bank Nationalization Isn't the Answer
William Isaac Wall Street Journal
William Isaac Compares Apples To Oranges
Barry Ritholtz Big Picture
Bank Nationalization: A Truly Awful Idea
John Tamny RealClearMarkets


Wednesday, February 25
Stocks Are Cheaper Than They Look
Jeremy Siegel Wall Street Journal
How Bank Bonuses Let Us All Down
Nassim Nicholas Taleb Financial Times
Bring Back Wall Street Partnerships
William Gruver The New Republic
The Reagan-Era Roots of the Financial Meltdown
Thomas Cooley Forbes
SLIDESHOW: The Best and Worst Job Markets
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We Have a Gravity-Defying Problem With Debt
Colin Barr Fortune
Should We Let California Go Bankrupt?
Steve Malanga RealClearMarkets
From the Age of Gucci to Co-Op Capitalism
Noreena Hertz Times of London
Why Economists Disagree On Stimulus
Richard Rahn Washington Times
Like Medicare? Then Taxes Must Rise
David Leonhardt New York Times
Is Bank Nationalization Inevitable?
Peter Morici RealClearMarkets
Banks Are Lending, Don't Nationalize
Editorial Investor's Business Daily
Bailed Out? Don't Get Caught Having Fun
Michael Hiltzik LA Times


Thursday, February 26
The Reeducation of Dr. Summers
Michael Hirsh & Evan Thomas Newsweek
So Much for Fiscal Responsibility
Diana Furchtgott-Roth RealClearMarkets
How To Price Troubled Bank Assets
Peter Wallison Wall Street Journal
Banks' Books Are Finally Revealing Truth
Jonathan Weil Bloomberg
Nationalization: Who Would Bear the Pain?
Peter Coy Business Week
Nationalize? Remember the House Bank
James Glassman The American
Obama Confronts Our Conventional Energy Future
Editorial NY Times
But Do The Markets Hate Barack Obama?
Paul Kedrosky The Daily Beast
Time to Consider the Cost of Regulation
Wayne Crews RealClearMarkets
Obama's Solutions Promise More Crisis
Terence Corcoran National Post
Obama's Spending Will End the Crisis
Anatole Kaletsky Times of London
Aiding Bottom 10%: A Recipe for Economic Decline
John Tamny RCM
We Shouldn't Seek to 'Hire American'
George Pieler & Jens Laurson Forbes


Friday, February 27
Failing Upward At the Federal Reserve
Floyd Norris New York Times
Take Bankruptcy Over Nationalization
James Keller RealClearMarkets
It's Time to Expose Those CDO Values
Gillian Tett Financial Times
A Budget Hijacked by Special Interests
Steven Pearlstein Washington Post
New Era, But Same Old Budget Story
Editorial Investor's Business Daily
The Rand Factor In the Santelli Revolt
Robert Tracinski RealClearMarkets
Santelli, and the Decline of the Angry Republican
Jonathan Chait TNR
Go Green, and Create Millions of Jobs
Mark Hertsgaard The Nation
The Green Jobs Engine That Can't
Max Schulz City Journal
A Bull Market That Began On November 20
Mark Hulbert MarketWatch
Buffett Assumes Role As Lender of Last Resort
David Pauly Bloomberg
Presumed Innocent? Bernie Madoff?
Dan Abrams Wall Street Journal
Will the Republicans Cry Wolf About Taxes Again?
Bruce Bartlett Forbes
Saturday, February 28
Conventional Wisdom Led Investors to Ruin
Steve Hanke Forbes
And Berkshire Reports Its Worst Year Ever
Carol Loomis Fortune
GDP Shrinks at Staggering Rate
Annys Shin & Neil Irwin Washington Post
Is It Our Own Lost Economic Decade?
Paul Greenberg Washington Times
A Trust Deficit Is Driving Down Our Economy
Sapienza & Zingales CJ
Why the Economic Stimulus Plan Will Fail
John Chapman TCS Daily
Today's America Through de Tocqueville's Eyes
The Weekly Standard
Citi's 'Multinationalization' May Not Be So Bad
Rob Cox Daily Telegraph
The War On Philanthropy
Ben Domenech The New Ledger
AIG: Propping Up a House of Cards
Joe Nocera New York Times
Trade: The Danger of Turning Inward
Jeffrey Garten Wall Street Journal
Monday, March 2
Do the Money Gurus Know About Money?
Joel Lovell Washington Post
The Most Powerless Wall Street Power
Joe Hagan New York Magazine
Bank Policy Means U.S. Risks a Lost Decade
James Baker Financial Times
Message to Regulators: Bank Fix Needed Quickly
Tyler Cowen NY Times
What's Holding Tim Geithner Back?
Noam Scheiber The New Republic
Some Banks Must Die So Economy Can Live
Caroline Baum Bloomberg
Treasury's Flawed Plan for Citigroup
Peter Morici RealClearMarkets
Bank Nationalization Isn't the Worst Fear
Bill Fleckenstein MSNMoney
California Voters: Paving the Road to Ruin
Bill Frezza RealClearMarkets
GOP Errs In Fighting Obama's Stimulus
Mark Nelson Los Angeles Times
Alternatives to Obama's Economic Plan
Paul Ryan Wall Street Journal
Americans Are Angry and Divided
Joseph Calhoun RealClearMarkets
Do Taxpayers Owe Nadya Suleman Financial Help?
John Tamny Forbes
Revenge of the Worldwide Savings Glut
Paul Krugman New York Times


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