HNN Hot Topics: Financial Meltdown (Jan. 1, 2009 to present)
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- 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
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