RealClearMarkets Week of October 6, 2008 Archives

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Monday, October 6

Chaotic Day Ends With Stocks Down 3.8%

Michael Grynbaum NY Times

It's Nonsense To Blame Crisis on Deregulation

Sebastian Mallaby WaPo

How Do We Get Credit Flowing Again?

Randall Forsyth Barron's

Markets Need More Than Random Acts of Congress

C. Baum Bloomberg

A Plan To Undo Bush-Era Follies

Joseph Stiglitz Vanity Fair

Not Everyone Should Own a Home

Janet Albrechtsen Wall Street Journal

Citigroup Wants Its Wachovia Bailout Deal

Colin Barr Fortune

Cut To 1%--Now!

Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein Forbes

Tuesday, October 7

Time for Comprehensive Rescues of Financial Systems

Martin Wolf FT

Unlimited Deposit Insurance Better Way To Go

Lawrence Lindsey Forbes

Falling House Prices Must Be Stabilized

Dean Baker Guardian

Fighting Debt Deflation Tooth and Nail

Randall Forsyth Barron's

Neither Rome Nor Confidence Were Built in a Day

I. Kellner MktWatch

George Soros: He Foresaw The End of an Era

John Cassidy NYR of Books

Is The Credit Crunch Ever Going To End?

Joe Nocera New York Times

Global Financial Crisis: How Long? How Deep?

Stijn Claessens et al VoxEU

Wednesday, October 8

How To Unfreeze Bank Lending

Robert Pozen Wall Street Journal

A Shift from Bumbling To Sensible Policy

Gillian Tett Financial Times

There's Little Debate--McCain & Obama Don't Get It

R. Forsyth Barron's

Fed Tries To Find What Works in Mess

John Berry Bloomberg

"Risk Sensitivity" Led To Global Financial Crisis

Avinash Persaud VoxEU

Don't Undermine Free Markets

Simon Tilford and Philip Whyte IHT

Don't Blame the Quants--Executives Just Didn't Listen

S. Shreve Forbes

Bank Stocks Meredith Whitney Actually Likes

Jon Birger Fortune

Thursday, October 9

There's No Easy Way Out of the Bubble

Vernon Smith Wall Street Journal

On Dramatic Actions and Subdued Reactions

Randall Forsyth Barron's

Easy Money Causes Bubble; Easy Money Cures Bust

C. Baum Bloomberg

Why Taxpayers Should Own Banks

Colin Barr Fortune

Saved by the Deficit?

Robert Reich New York Times

Temporary Full State Ownership Is Only Solution

Paul De Grauwe FT

Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac Must Go

David Oedel Christian Science Monitor

Wachovia Is The Latest Blunder for Citi

David Weidner MarketWatch

Friday, October 10

A Pause for Repentance, or The End of Big Bonuses?

John Gapper FT

The Market Fights the Fed -- and Wins

Randall Forsyth Barron's

A Short Banking History of the U.S.

John Steele Gordon Wall St. Journal

Plan B: Flood Banks With Cash

Floyd Norris New York Times

Me-First Attitude Won't Rescue Banks, Economy

M. Sesit Bloomberg

The Dollar: The Unlikely Beneficiary of Deleveraging

Colin Barr Fortune

The End Of American Capitalism?

Anthony Faiola Washington Post

Why Wall Street Will Survive

Andy Kessler New York Magazine

Monday, October 13

Bernanke & Co. Have Plenty of Options Left

Justin Fox Fortune

4 Magic Words: "We Are Providing Capital"

J. Hussman Hussman Funds

Has Gordon Brown Saved Global Financial System?

Paul Krugman NYT

Who Killed Wall Street?

Dani Rodrik Project Syndicate

An Interview with GMO's Jeremy Grantham

Lawrence Strauss Barron's

Keep Your Money in the Market

Burton Malkiel Wall Street Journal

3 Rules Will Help Protect You From Meltdown

John Wasik Bloomberg

Is There Time To Avert a Minsky Meltdown?

George Magnus Fncl Times