RealClearMarkets Week of October 19, 2009 Archives

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Monday, October 19
Don't Be Fooled, the Banks Aren't Alright
Paul Krugman New York Times
The Greed of Bankers Beggars Belief
Boris Johnson Daily Telegraph
Obama Aides Upbraid Wall Street
Fletcher & Goldfarb Washington Post
The Morality of a National Transaction Tax
Bill Frezza RealClearMarkets
Small Business to NYC: Get Off Our Backs
Steven Malanga City Journal
Global Warming Breaks Business Facade
James Surowiecki New Yorker
Climbing Inside Ayn Rand's Mind
Sam Anderson New York Magazine
Calling U.S.'s Bluff On 'Net Gambling
Michael Hiltzik Los Angeles Times
The Insider Trading Arrests Are Moblike
Editorial Wall Street Journal
An Economic Report Card for Obama
Alan Blinder New York Times
Counting the Days to the Next Crisis
Wolfgang Munchau Financial Times
Everything You Know About China Is Wrong
Rana Foroohar Newsweek
Deflation's Proponents Misunderstand Deflation
John Tamny Forbes
Bernanke Frets Over Sherlock's Next Stop
Caroline Baum Bloomberg


Tuesday, October 20
With Banks, Bigger Can Be Better
Charles Calomiris Wall Street Journal
The Race to Save Lehman Brothers
Andrew Ross Sorkin New York Times
An Interview with Jason Trennert
Dan Holland RealClearMarkets
Don't Blame Government for Losses at Citi and GM
Daniel Gross Slate
Fed's Bailouts Impair the Prudent Saver
Allan Sloan Washington Post
How Citi's Andrew Hall Made $100M Last Year
Stephen Gandel TIME
Treasury Has $52B to Support the Dollar
John Crudele New York Post
The Euro: Not the Next Global Currency
J. Pisani-Ferry & Adam Posen FT
$250 Checks Are Seniors' Latest Money Grab
Amity Shlaes Bloomberg
Strong GDP Reports Are On the Way
Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein Forbes
Trickle-Down Economics Is a Fairy Tale
Bob Herbert New York Times
Washington Doesn't Solve, It Destroys
Richard Rahn Washington Times
The Baucus Bill: A Backdoor Path to the Public Option
John Tamny RCM
The Inevitable Collapse of U.S. Capitalism
Paul Farrell MarketWatch


Wednesday, October 21
Volcker Fails to Sell a Bank Strategy
Louis Uchitelle New York Times
Why We Had to Bail Out GM and Chrysler
Steven Rattner Fortune
A Financial Crisis In Search of a Narrative
Daniel Yergin Financial Times
When Investing Poorly Is a Crime
Holman Jenkins Wall Street Journal
To Reduce Your Health Costs, Move
Steven Malanga RealClearMarkets
What the Insurance Industry Got Right
Jonathan Cohn The New Republic
An Entrepreneur's Ideas For Healthcare Reform
Michael Ortner RCM
Bible Tells Us Banks Can't Serve Two Masters
Caroline Baum Bloomberg
With No Shame, It's Difficult Out There
Todd Harrison MarketWatch
How the Credit Crunch Cost the Chicago Cubs
Michael Brush MSN Money
Trust-busting the NFL's Monopoly
Steven Pearlstein Washington Post
A Hiring Tax Credit Would Prolong the Recession
Lee Ohanian Forbes
Our Subprime Federal Government
Nicole Gelinas City Journal
Housing Tax Incentives: Worse Than Clunkers
Randall Forsyth Barron's


Thursday, October 22
Mr. Geithner: Stop Passing The Buck On The Dollar
Michael Pento Forbes
Who's Looking at the Fed's Books?
William Barnett New York Times
Our Drunken Spendthrift Uncle Sam
Editorial Investor's Business Daily
Once Again, Raising the Debt Ceiling
David Broder Washington Post
What a U.S. Decline Means for Investors
Brett Arends Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Run Amok? Blame Harvard
Charles Green MSN Money
Paul Krugman, and the Middle-Class Champion Myth
John Tamny RCM
Obama Carries Big Stick on Executive Pay
David Callaway MarketWatch
The SEC's New War on Insider Trading
Farzad & Francis BusinessWeek
Goldman Sachs Is Too Big to Tell It Straight
Jonathan Weil Bloomberg
Goldman Should Be Allowed to Fail
John Gapper Financial Times
Education & Economic Mobility
Diana Furchtgott-Roth RealClearMarkets
What $100 Oil Means for the Economy
Josh Lipton Minyanville
China's Push for Gulf Oil Puts U.S. in Tough Spot
David Pierson LA Times


Friday, October 23
Was October 2008 Just a Dress Rehearsal?
Gillian Tett Financial Times
U.S. Is Cruising Toward a New Crisis
Allan Meltzer Wall Street Journal
1929? 1987? No New Crash in the Cards -- Yet
Jon Markman MSN Money
The Myth of the Death of the Consumer
Kevin Depew Minyanville
Inflation Could Stay Low for Some Time
Mark Hulbert MarketWatch
The Time Has Come for the Value-Added Tax
Bruce Bartlett Forbes
Dollar's Doom Puts a Face on New $1 Million Bill
David Reilly Bloomberg
China's Outrageous Currency Policy
Paul Krugman New York Times
China's 8.9% Growth Is a Sugary Fairy Tale
Gordon Chang Forbes
Pay Czar's Pay Cuts Don't Reach Bigger Goal
Joe Nocera New York Times
Washington Overreaches on Wall St. Bonuses
Rich Lowry New York Post
Pay Caps Won't Prevent Future Crisis
Steven Pearlstein Washington Post
Is Washington's Pay Crackdown Bad for Business?
Stephen Gandel TIME
Enough's Enough With the Big Government Nanny State
Editorial IBD
Saturday, October 24
Learning to Love Insider Trading
Donald Boudreaux Wall Street Journal
Learning the Wrong Lessons from the Depression
Steve Hanke Globe Asia
Jeff Skilling: Is "Honest Services Fraud" Bogus?
Richard Lacayo TIME
Larry Summers Has a Dream, but No Details
Robert Lenzner Forbes
It's Time to Bust Up the Banking Giants
Diane Francis National Post
There Are Short Memories at Goldman Sachs
Joe Nocera New York Times
Bank Regulation Won't End at Exec Pay
Donald Luskin SmartMoney
D.C. May Drive Higher Exec Pay
Jonathan Macey Wall Street Journal
With Health Reform, Comes Socialism
Editorial Investor's Business Daily
Looking Behind Michael Jackson's Mad Money
Richard Siklos Fortune
Obama & Seeking a More Perfect NAFTA
Jim Hoagland Washington Post
Obama and Google - A Love Story
Jia Lynn Yang & Nina Easton Fortune
The United States and China: A Wary, Uncertain Respect
The Economist
Rein In Sky and Offer Consumer Choice
Richard Branson Financial Times
Monday, October 26
Don't Ignore the Need for Financial Reform
George Soros Financial Times
Six Steps to Revitalize the Financial System
S. Weill & J. Kraushaar WSJ
Washington's Systemicially Incompetent Regulators
James Keller RCM
Why Banks Stay Big to Begin With
James Surowiecki The New Yorker
Paul Volcker's Warnings Are Being Ignored
Bill Fleckenstein MSN Money
Five Myths About Wall Street Bonuses
Roy Smith Washington Post
Can Main Street Catch Up With Wall Street?
Moira Herbst BusinessWeek
Are You Ready to Subsidize Reporters?
Bill Frezza RealClearMarkets
Is the State of California Finished?
John Judis The New Republic
California Change May Foretell Economic Renewal
Steve Forbes Forbes
The Dethroning of King Dollar?
Irwin Stelzer The Weekly Standard
Government Porkfare Isn't Recession's Cure
Caroline Baum Bloomberg
The Impressive Absurdity of Insider Trading Rules
John Tamny Forbes
In This 10-Year Race, Bonds Win By a Mile
Jeff Sommer New York Times


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