RealClearMarkets Week of December 15, 2008 Archives

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Monday, December 15

A Glimmer In The Global Gloom?

Reihan Salam Forbes

'09 Is Almost Upon Us: Stock Picks from the Experts

Geoff Colvin Fortune

The U.S. Is Strengthening Through the Crisis

Ricardo Hausmann FT

Recession's Silver Lining

Gregory Rodriguez Los Angeles Times

Stages of a Bear Market: Fear, Recognition & Revulsion

Hussman Funds

Madoff's Country Clubbers Smiled $50B Ago

Susan Antilla Bloomberg

The 17th Floor, Where Wealth Went To Die

Henriques & Berenson NYT

Bush Blinks on the Auto Bailout

Paul Ingrassia Wall Street Journal

Tuesday, December 16

'Helicopter Ben' Confronts the Challenge of a Lifetime

Martin Wolf FT

The Lessons From 30 Years of Chinese Reform

Hugo Restall Wall St. Jrnl

Madoffâ??s Investors Needed a Blagojevich Moment

Ann Woolner Bloomberg

The Madoff Mess: Another Black Eye for Banks

Colin Barr Fortune

This Has Been a Very Bad Year for the SEC

Peter Henning NY Times

The Second Automobile Industry

Daniel Gross Newsweek

Getting Bullish at the Wrong Time

Charles Biderman Forbes

Why It's Going to Get a Lot Worse

Eric Savitz Barron's

Wednesday, December 17

Low-Interest Mortgages Are the Answer

G. Hubbard & C. Mayer WSJ

The Fed's New Acronyms: ZIRP and QE

Randall Forsyth Barron's

With So Much Meddling, Are Free Markets Still Free?

B. Sedacca MW

GOP Wants To Destroy What the UAW Built

H. Meyerson Wash Post

Madoff Gives Sad Twist to Holiday Depression

Jane B. Quinn Bloomberg

Who Isn't a Madoff Victim? The List Is Telling

N. Varchaver Fortune

Repeal Sarbanes-Oxley--Lock, Stock And Barrel

William Niskanen Forbes

U.S. & China Becoming 2 Countries, 1 System

Thomas Friedman NYT

Thursday, December 18

Banks Need a Bigger & Better Capital Cushion

Alan Greenspan Economist

5 Ways To Start the World Economic Recovery

George Magnus FT

What Can Be Learned from the Banking Crisis?

Hans-Werner Sinn Voxeu

Deleveraging Can Save Jobs

Barth Klowden and Yago Wall Street Journal

Detroit Doesn't Need a Car Czar To Run It

Brian Dumaine Fortune

There Are Too Many Car Companies Anyway

Michael Marks Forbes

Madoff, Ponzi Schemes and Double Standards

Jonathan Weil Bloomberg

Can Ray Ozzie Save the House Bill Gates Built?

Steven Levy Wired Mag

A Revolution(ary) Comes To San Jose

Ellen McGirl Fast Company

Friday, December 19

A Year of Failure and Chaos in the World of Finance

Floyd Norris NYT

This Year Hot Buy -- 2% Treasuries??

Randall Forsyth Barron's

How To Save the Industrial Heartland

Joel Kotkin Forbes

How To Get Banks Lending Again

Lucian Bebchuk & Itay Goldstein FT

A Wrench in Silicon Valley's Wealth Machine

Spencer Ante BusinessWk

Tough Calls for Tough Times

Dyan Machan & Russell Pearlman Sm. Money

Lessons From the Great Inflation

Robert Samuelson Reason

Recession Forecast Blown Up by Subprime Meltdown

J. Berry Bloomberg

Monday, December 22

How To Emerge from the Crisis in 2009

Olivier Blanchard Proj. Syndicate

What To Buy--and What To Avoid--in 2009

Kopin Tan Barron's

Madoff Repents in Park Ave. Leisure & Freedom

Ann Woolner Bloomberg

U.S. Corporate Tax Policy Is In Need of Reform

Frederick Smith FT

Either Bond Prices or The Dollar Is About To Plunge

Hussman Funds

The Theory of Market Equilibrium Is Wrong

George Soros Proj. Syndicate

Should We Close Down The World Bank? Yes

Allan Meltzer Am. Interest

This Christmas, We're (Mostly) Cutting Back

Karlyn Bowman Forbes