reuters.com - 3/23/2009
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nobel-prize winning economist Paul Krugman said in remarks published on Monday that the latest U.S. Treasury bailout program is nearly certain to fail, triggering a sense of personal despair. U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Monday unveiled a plan aimed at ...
newsweek.com - 3/28/2009
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newsweek.com —
Traditionally, punditry in Washington has been a cozy
business. To get the inside scoop, big-time columnists sometimes...
befriend top policymakers and offer informal advice over lunch or drinks. Naturally, lines can blur. The most noted pundit of ...
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Attack From the Left: Paul Krugman's Poison Pen | ...
roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com - 3/24/2009
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roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com —
Paul Krugman, Simon Johnson, Brad DeLong and Mark
Thoma on the government plan to buy up bad...
mortgage assets.
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... Nobel laureate Krugman slams Geithner bailout plan: Nobel-prize winning economist Paul Krugman said in remarks published on Monday that the latest U.S. Treasury bailout program is nearly certain to fail, triggering a sense of personal despair. ...
Max Fraser | Global Labor's G-20 Agenda
The Nation: Top Stories —
... recovery programmes in developing countries" and pushes for an "end to the harmful economic policy conditionality attached to assistance," which often forces poorer countries to curtail public spending on employment and social welfare programs when it is most needed. On the crisis in the financial markets, the union plan is similarly far-reaching. It rejects efforts to "create taxpayer-sponsored 'bad asset' pools," like those at the core of the US Treasury's recently announced Public-Private Investment Program . Instead, the unions argue that nationalizing insolvent banks ...
The Case for Distrust
Open Left - Front Page —
... , and people who saw the financial crisis coming who think the Obama administration's bailout plan is a bad idea. As such, faith in the bailout plan really isn't a question of analytic and scholastic ability, having clean hands on the financial crisis, or whether or not someone comes from an elite world of Villagers. It is simply a matter of trust in the people executing the plan. ...
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Yellin: Geithner faces a tough room —
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Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner faced a tough room Monday morning.
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Admin announces plan for bad assets —
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From NBC's Athena Jones The Treasury Department released a long-awaited plan to help deal with the troubled assets at the root of the credit crunch that's crippling the economy.
The plan would use a combination of public and private money to ...
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