Archives: HNN Hot Topics ... Financial Meltdown

• HNN Hot Topics: Financial Meltdown (Oct. 16 to Dec. 31 2008)
  

   

• HNN Hot Topics: Financial Meltdown (Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, 2008)

Related Links

• Robert E. Wright: The Great Recession of 2008 and the Sordid Historiography of the Great Depression
  

   

• HNN Hot Topics: The New Deal
  

   

• What Are the Origins of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae?
  

   

• What Are the Biggest Financial Scandals in U.S. History?
  

   

• When Did the Great Depression Receive Its Name? (And Who Named It?)
  

   

• Jim Powell: It's Time to Explode the Myths About the New Deal
  

   

• Eric Rauchway: In Defense of the New Deal
  

   

• New Deal Network (The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (FERI) and the Institute for Learning Technologies (ILT) at Columbia University)
  

   

• Omar Hossini: Are We Really Printing Money to Finance Our Debts?
  

   

• How would we know we are in a depression?

   

• Eduardo Porter: Dangers of the D-Word

Historians' Solutions

• Iwan Morgan: Seeing Red: The Budget Deficit - Past, Present and Future
  

   

• James Livingston: Why Neither Nationalization Nor a New Tarp Can Fix Our Finances
  

   

• John Paul Rossi: The Auto Bailout: a Bad Deal
  

   

• Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello, and Brendan Smith: Global Labor’s Forgotten Plan to Fight the Great Depression
  

   

• Richard Bensel: The Intended and Unintended Consequences of the Financial Crisis

Commentary & News

• Henry Blodget: In 1930, They Didn't Know It Was"the Great Depression" Yet
  

   

• David Barber: Skewed Wealth Distribution and the Roots of the Economic Crisis
  

   

• James Livingston: This Recession is Going To Be a Long One
  

   

• 60 Minutes: The Bet That Blew Up Wall Street
  

   

• Hale"Bonddad" Stewart: The Myth of the Black Swan
  

   

• John F. Wasik: The Cul-de-Sac Syndrome and the Future of Housing
  

   

• Paul M. Barrett: J.P. Morgan's bankers invented dangerous ways of dispersing risk
  

   

• Paul Krugman: Stay the Course
  

   

• John Steele Gordon: The Inflation Temptation
  

   

• Paul Krugman: Reagan Did It
  

   

• Niall Ferguson: The Crisis and How to Deal with It
  

   

• Steven Stoll: Is Economic Growth a Delusion?
  

   

• John Steele Gordon: Why Government Can't Run a Business
  

   

• Alan S. Blinder: Let's hope 2010 is not 1936
  

   

• James Surowiecki: How banks got big
  

   

• Depression Scares Are Hardly New
  

   

• Mark Hulbert: 25 Years to Bounce Back? Try 4½
  

   

• Dermot Quinn: The Wilhelm Roepke solution to our economic woes
  

   

• Kevin Boyle: Requiem ... Detroit and the Fate of Urban America
  

   

• Jill Lepore: I.O.U. ... How we used to treat debtors
  

   

• Paul Krugman: Making Banking Boring
  

   

• NYT: Financial Fate, in Each Country's Hands
  

   

• Council on Foreign Relations conference on the New Deal highlighted by NYT
  

   

• NYT: The Day the S.E.C. Changed the Game
  

   

• Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff : Don’t Buy the Chirpy Forecasts
  

   

• Niall Ferguson: This financial crisis does have a Conservative solution
  

   

• TPM: The Rise And Fall Of AIG's Financial Products Unit
  

   

• Financial historian: Look to 1792 for economic lessons
  

   

• Robert J. Samuelson: The Shadow of Depression
  

   

• Rick Shenkman: The AIG money wasn't even used to cover losses. That's infuriating.
  

   

• Peter Hartcher: The Truth About Tim Geithner?
  

   

• NPR: When was the last time Americans owed as much as they do today? Scary answer.
  

   

• Author of"Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World" interviewed on Meet the Press
  

   

• NYT: Job losses: Ever Closer to 1982
  

   

• Tobias Harris: A twenty years' crisis in Japan
  

   

• Andrew DeWit: Japan’s Twenty Year Response to Economic Crisis
  

   

• David Leonhardt: The Great Recession likely to result in less inequality
  

   

• James Quinn: As General Motors Goes, So Goes the Nation
  

   

• Paul Craig Roberts: A Banana Republic By 2012?:
  

   

• Richard Bensel: The Intended and Unintended Consequences of the Financial Crisis
  

   

• Ismael Hossein-zadeh: How the Current Financial Rescue Schemes are Following Hoover's Failed Model
  

   

• Obama stimulus: More old school fix-ups, less New Deal grandeur
  

   

• Robert J. Shiller: Can Talk of a Depression Lead to One?
  

   

• John Steele Gordon: Deficits are nothing new. It's the trend that should worry us.
  

   

• Robert J. Samuelson: Our Lost Decade
  

   

• Bonnie Goodman: Political Highlights ... The Senate and Congress agree on an Economic Stimulus Bill
  

   

• NYT: Ailing Banks May Require More Aid to Keep Solvent
  

   

• Jerry Z. Muller: Our Epistemological Depression
  

   

• Ann Pettifor: It's Japan Again, Stupid
  

   

• Ben Stein: What needs to be done to fix the economy?
  

   

• Niall Ferguson: Keynes can't help us now
  

   

• David Huyssen: So Geithner Thinks He Has Problems?
  

   

• NYT: Japan's Big-Works Stimulus Is Lesson
  

   

• William Kleinknecht: Happy Birthday Ronald Reagan (Thanks for Ruining America)
  

   

• Chris Gay: Are we smarter about economics than we were 80 years ago? Yes, but …
  

   

• Dick Armey: Washington Could Use Less Keynes and More Hayek
  

   

• Dick Morris: Keynesian fallacy
  

   

• Carmen M. Reinhart And Kenneth S. Rogoff: The lesson of history is grim: Expect a prolonged slump.
  

   

• Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian: How Government Prolonged the Depression
  

   

• Amity Shlaes: FDR Was a Great Leader, But His Economic Plan Isn't One to Follow
  

   

• Mark Naison: The Squeeze Is On! Why We Need to Explore Communal, As Well As Individual Responses to the Economic Crisis
  

   

• John B. Judis: The misunderstood John Maynard Keynes
  

   

• NYT: F.D.R's Example Offers Lessons for Obama
  

   

• Mark Levey: Leave the New Deal in the History Books
  

   

• N. Gregory Mankiw: Is Government Spending Too Easy an Answer?
  

   

• David Brooks: Does fiscal stimulus work?
  

   

• Thomas Truxes: Sacrificing the Security of the Nation for the Sake of Profit: A Long History
  

   

• Media Matters: Stimulus plans worked in both the New Deal and Japan
  

   

• Ron Chernow: Where Is Our Ferdinand Pecora?
  

   

• Dick Morris: Tyranny of the tax exempt
  

   

• Jonathan Zimmerman: Obama should agree to a pay cut
  

   

• Paul Krugman: Keynes was right and Friedman wrong about the Great Depression, then and now
  

   

• Alan Brinkley: Learning from FDR's mistakes