RealClearMarkets Week of December 29, 2008 Archives

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Monday, December 29

Twenty Surprising Predictions for 2009

Doug Kass TheStreet.com

World Economy in '09: 3 Priorities for Recovery

Wolfgang Münchau FT

Should Investors Bet on Gold in 2009?

David Bogoslaw BusinessWeek

The 21 Dumbest Moments in Business 2008

Fortune

Veterans of '90s Bailout Go Looking for Profit

Lipton/Kirkpatrick NYT

Just Say 'Non' To Regulation

Ronald Cass Forbes

Update The 100-Year-Old Model T

Matthew DeBord The Big Money

AIG, and the Failure To Master Risk

R. O'Harrow & B. Dennis Wash Post

Tuesday, December 30

Recession, Recovery & Trade War--Welcome to 2009!

Financial Times

Good Riddance to '08. Will '09 Be Another Bummer?

A. Abelson Barron's

Politics and Power: Fannie Mae's Last Stand

Bethany McLean Vanity Fair

Capitalism Worst System Except for the Rest

Caroline Baum Blooomberg

The Last Thing We Need Is To Stimulate Consumption

Joel Kotkin Forbes

Will Work for Praise: The Web's Free-Labor Economy

S. Baker BizWeek

This Oil Man Favors a Gas-Tax Hike

Nicholas Varchaver Fortune

The Global Credit Crisis as History

Barry Eichengreen Cal-Berkeley

Friday, January 2

The Dismal Economistâ??s Joyless Triumph

Joseph Stiglitz Project Syndicate

If This Is Like '32, There Will Be Hope As Well As Pain

John Authers FT

The Hope Indicators: 10 Things To Watch in 2009

Zubin Jelveh Portfolio

10 Dumbest Things on Wall Street in 2008

Gregg Greenberg TheStreet

In Saving the World, The Fed Beats Treasury

Anthony Karydakis Fortune

Madoff Wreckage Bangs Feeder Funds, Auditors

Jane Quinn Bloomberg

Mortgages: What You Need To Know in '09

Peter Coy BusinessWeek

Rajan Was Unpopular-But Prescient-at Greenspan Party

J. Lahart WSJ

Monday, January 5

How To Repair a Broken Financial World

M. Lewis & D. Einhorn NY Times

The Great Liquidity Crisis--94 Years Ago

Niall Ferguson Financial Times

Signs of a Bottom in the New Year

Lawrence Strauss Barron's

The Great Real Estate Bust of 2008

Robert Shiller Project Syndicate

Hard To Believe '09 Will Be Crazier Than '08

William Pesek Bloomberg

Who Should Get the Federal Stimulus Funds?

Ed Glaeser Boston Globe

The Ponzi Scheme in Every Hedge Fund

Ari Officer TIME

How Madoff Fleeced The Palm Beach Elite

Daniel Gross Newsweek

Catching Madoff Isn't the Way the World Works

Allan Sloan Fortune

The Myth of the Riskometer

Jon Danielsson VoxEU