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06/23/2026
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Xi Jinping Tariff Negotiating Strategy with US Groups
How much of a factor were low interest rates under Greenspan in creating a bubble in housing prices?
01/02/2009
Fed chairman Bernanke was a Fed Governor who advocated low interest rates at the time. His response. Expert opinion.
Grouped Articles
Wanted: A Boring Leader for the Fed
New York Times 08/20/2013
What's Needed in the Next Fed Chief
New York Times 09/15/2013
Fed chief Bernanke urges better financial regulation to prevent crises
Washington Post 01/04/2010
Lax Oversight Caused Crisis, Bernanke Says
New York Times 01/04/2010
The Fed and the Crisis: A Reply to Ben Bernanke
Wall Street Journal 01/10/2010
Bernanke’s Bid for a Second Term at the Fed Hits Resistance
New York Times 01/23/2010
The Bernanke Federal Reserve and the U.S. Stock Market
01/02/2009
The Fed's support of the U.S. stock market with the $600 billion quantitative easing.
Grouped Articles
A Hawkish Signal Bernanke Didn't Send
Wall Street Journal 06/25/2013
FX HORIZONS: The Fed’s Risky Codependency with Markets
Wall Street Journal 07/11/2013
Wall Street Journal 08/18/2013
In Surprise, Fed Decides to Maintain Pace of Stimulus
New York Times 09/18/2013
Bull Market Five Years On: Still Celebrating
Wall Street Journal 03/08/2014
The Fed Places Stock in the Bull Market
Wall Street Journal 03/23/2011
Deutsche Bank's image in Germany 2008-2015
01/02/2009
Deutsche Bank's image takes a hit in an alleged carbon credit value added tax fraud. Its headquarters in Frankfurt are raided by German police and investigators. Co-CEO Jurgen Fitschen's call to the Governor of Hesse protesting the raid is criticized in Germany as intervening in an ongoing investigation of the bank. Earlier Deutsche Bank's role in the 2008 financial crisis with its participation in the mortgage securities market in the U.S. came under criticism. This also raised the question whether a change in management with the two new co-CEO's made in mid 2012 has changed the culture at the bank.
Grouped Articles
Deutsche Bank Plans to Extend Contract of Co-CEO
New York Times 09/11/2013
Deutsche Bank Hit By Legal Costs
Wall Street Journal 10/30/2013
Deutsche Bank Deserves Bite Bair Gave It
Wall Street Journal 06/07/2010
Deutsche Loss Underlines European Economy’s Dependence on Banks
New York Times 01/20/2014
Executive Who Committed Suicide Anxious Amid Deutsche Bank Probes
Wall Street Journal 03/26/2014
German Financial Watchdog Bites Back
Wall Street Journal 03/28/2014
Books and movies on the 2008-2009 global financial crisis.
01/02/2009
Grouped Articles
âAlchemistsâ Looks at Central Bankersâ Handling of Crisis
New York Times 05/04/2013
BusinessWeek 04/01/2010
How the 'Wolf of Wall Street' Really Did It
Wall Street Journal 01/04/2014
Wall Street Journal 03/06/2009
An Ambitious Look at Wall Street's Convulsions
BusinessWeek 10/29/2009
Financial Crisis Was Avoidable, Inquiry Concludes
New York Times 01/25/2011
Unemployment in 2007 and 2011, before and after the global financial crisis
01/02/2009
Unemployment in different countries of Europe, Asia and Latin America, before and after the global financial crisis of 2008. A surge in unemployment in Spain and other European countries, especially for young people, and rising unemployment in the U.S.
Grouped Articles
Wanted: Jobs for the New 'Lost' Generation
Wall Street Journal 09/14/2013
New York Times 06/07/2014
Labour-market trends: Winners and losers
Economist 09/10/2011
Unemployment in the West: The quest for jobs
Economist 09/10/2011
The jobless young: Left behind
Economist 09/10/2011
Strong ADP Jobs Gain Needs Grain of Salt
Wall Street Journal 01/05/2012
A Citigroup restructuring plan, and bank restructuring plans that were never developed by Treasury Secretary Geithner for President Obama
01/02/2009
Ron Suskind documents the making of key economic decisions in the Obama White House from 700 hours of interviews in his new book released in Sept 2011: "Confidence Men: the Obama White House, Wall Street and the Education of a President." In the book he says Obama asked Geithner to develop a plan for restructuring Citigroup after the bailout of Citi. A month later he followed up in a meeting, and was told by Romer at a meeting Geithner did not atttend, that no plan had been developed. The President's response was "it better be." Geithner says he was asked to do so but "fortunately there was never a need to put them in place."
Grouped Articles
New York Times 05/16/2010
A Conflict in Geithner's New Job- Not Exactly
New York Times 11/18/2013
Charlie Rose Talks to Robert Reich
BusinessWeek 10/21/2010
A Stress Test for the Latest Bailout Plan
New York Times 02/14/2009
Citigroup Hits 'Penny Stock' Realm
Wall Street Journal 03/06/2009
Obama, Geithner Get Low Grades From Economists
Wall Street Journal 03/11/2009
Insights into Crisis Prevention- from the 2008 financial crisis to the BP Oil Spill and Fukushima nuclear disaster
01/02/2009
Grouped Articles
Recipes for Ruin, in the Gulf or on Wall Street
New York Times 06/11/2010
Chinese Walls, Pocked With Peepholes
New York Times 06/11/2010
The Oil Disaster Is About Human, Not System, Failure
Wall Street Journal 06/11/2010
Oil Executives Try to Explain Differences From BP
New York Times 06/15/2010
Mr. Rajan Was Unpopular (But Prescient) at Greenspan Party
Wall Street Journal 01/02/2009
Raghuram Rajan on the risks to the U.S. economy and society before the 2008 financial crisis
01/02/2009
Is Bernanke making the same mistake made by Greenspan by keeping interest rates too low for too long. Would a stronger safety net in the US ease pressures on the US Federal Reserve to do excessive monetary easing and instead allow the Fed to let a more natural rise in employment take place? He isn't ideological and joins John Taylor, George W Bush's economic advisor, and Allan Meltzer of Carnegie-Mellon, in questioning Bernanke's excessive monetary easing. In 2005, Rajan was prescient in questioning the Greenspan Fed's policies and the risks from excessive leveraging in the financial system at the Jackson Hole conference.
Grouped Articles
Mr. Rajan Was Unpopular (But Prescient) at Greenspan Party
Wall Street Journal 01/02/2009
Interest Rates: The Zero Percent Solution
BusinessWeek 08/25/2010
BusinessWeek 11/04/2010
The Case Against the Bernanke-Obama Financial Rescue
New York Times 05/16/2014
Charting the Economic Fault Lines
BusinessWeek 02/10/2011
Wall Street Journal 02/05/2011
Geithner after the first year of the Obama administration.
01/02/2009
Interview with Al Hunt of Bloomberg. His views and reflections on the crisis and proposals.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 05/16/2010
Charlie Rose Talks to Timothy Geithner
BusinessWeek 07/22/2010
A Stress Test for the Latest Bailout Plan
New York Times 02/14/2009
Obama, Geithner Get Low Grades From Economists
Wall Street Journal 03/11/2009
Geithner's Plan: Loopholes Galore
BusinessWeek 04/01/2009
Book Review: 'Stress Test' by Timothy F. Geithner
Wall Street Journal 05/12/2014
Lawrence Summers.
01/02/2009
President Obama's economic advisor. Interview with the WSJ after one year of the Obama administration.
Grouped Articles
Moving forward after the debt deal - The Washington Post
Washington Post 08/02/2011
Washington Post 09/06/2011
Book portrays dysfunction in Obama White House - The Washington Post
Washington Post 09/17/2011
Stimulus and the Depression: The Untold Story
Wall Street Journal 09/26/2011
New York Times 05/16/2010
Fed's Yellen, Husband Worth Up to $13.2 Million in 2012
Wall Street Journal 08/28/2013
Fed chairman Bernanke and New York Fed president Geithner ignore warnings in 2006 about the housing bubble
01/02/2009
Transcripts of the meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve show new Fed chairman Bernanke and Head of the New York Fed discounted the growing risks in the U.S. housing markets in 2006. Fed governors Janet Yellen and Susan Bies raised the issue in meetings at the Fed. Transcripts show a sense of complacency had set in at the Fed with Bernanke confident about a soft landing for the housing market.
Grouped Articles
Central Bankers Hone Tools to Pop Bubbles
Wall Street Journal 07/08/2013
Wall Street Journal 09/15/2013
What's Needed in the Next Fed Chief
New York Times 09/15/2013
Book Review: 'Stress Test' by Timothy F. Geithner
Wall Street Journal 05/12/2014
The Case Against the Bernanke-Obama Financial Rescue
New York Times 05/16/2014
New York Times 05/17/2014
U.S. Treasury Secretary Geithner on the state of financial regulatory reform in mid- 2011
01/02/2009
Geithner says efforts in Congress to slow the implementation of the Dodd-Frank legislation hurts efforts to put in place necessary protections for the financial system after the crisis of 2008.
Grouped Articles
Trench Warfare: Send In the Deputies
New York Times 04/16/2010
Obama Presses Regulators to Finish Financial Rules
Wall Street Journal 08/20/2013
Obama Presses for Action on Bank Rules
New York Times 08/19/2013
A Dodd-Frank Retreat Deserves a Veto
Wall Street Journal 07/20/2011
Barney Frank, Financial Overhaul Defendor in Chief
New York Times 07/21/2011
Debating Dodd-Frank: Is 'Too Big to Fail' Gone?
Wall Street Journal 07/21/2011
Demand for foreign infant milk powder in China and distrust of domestic brands
01/01/2009
Fears of contaminated infant milk powder in China and the high demand for foreign milk powder.
Grouped Articles
Chinese Search for Infant Formula Goes Global
New York Times 07/25/2013
Former Head of Chinese Dairy Pleads Guilty
New York Times 01/01/2009
Food Safety in China Still Faces Big Hurdles
New York Times 07/23/2014
Adidos and Hotwind? In China, Brands Evoke Foreign Names, Even if They’re Gibberish
New York Times 12/26/2014
Eminent economists and the U.S. Fed on how to prevent another global financial crisis like the one in 2008
01/02/2009
Grouped Articles
Weâre All Still Hostages to the Big Banks
New York Times 08/25/13
Mr. Rajan Was Unpopular (But Prescient) at Greenspan Party
Wall Street Journal 01/02/09
Fed’s Tarullo warns that banking reforms are losing steam - The Washington Post
Washington Post 05/04/12
Wall Street Journal 06/16/11
Dimon in Rough Patch With the Fed
Wall Street Journal 06/09/11
Wall Street Journal 06/04/11
Books and stories about the 2008 financial crisis, financial collapse on Wall Street, and the men who made it happen.
01/02/2009
Stories by Lowenstein, Gross and Lewis.
Grouped Articles
âAlchemistsâ Looks at Central Bankersâ Handling of Crisis
New York Times 05/04/13
On Wall St., A Culture of Greed Won't Let Go
New York Times 07/15/13
Commentary: First, Slap Limits on Bank Leverage
BusinessWeek 03/11/10
BusinessWeek 04/01/10
How the 'Wolf of Wall Street' Really Did It
Wall Street Journal 01/04/14
Wall Street Journal 03/06/09
Candidates for chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve for 2014-
01/02/2009
Janet Yellen, John Taylor, Kohn, Dudley and Glenn Hubbard are candidates to replace Fed chairman Bernanke. Bernanke says he will not serve beyond Jan. 2014. Taylor has strong disagreement with the Fed's loose monetary policies. Fed chairwoman Janet Yellen provides continuity and scored highly in a WSJ July 2013 survey of candidates, for shaping monetary policy, forging consensus, and communicating policy.
Grouped Articles
Yellen Seen as Front-Runner for Top Fed Post
Wall Street Journal 07/19/13
Fed Chairmanâs Departure Casts a New Light on the Bush Legacy
New York Times 07/26/13
Fed's Yellen Says Stance on Banks Hardened
Wall Street Journal 08/13/13
Wanted: A Boring Leader for the Fed
New York Times 08/20/13
Fed's Yellen, Husband Worth Up to $13.2 Million in 2012
Wall Street Journal 08/28/13
Summers Withdraws Name for Fed Chairmanship
Wall Street Journal 09/16/13
The Geithner March 23, 2009 Plan for attacking toxic assets with government money to private investors.
01/02/2009
The Geithner Plan and the views of people like Krugman in the NYT, and Peter Eavis of the WSJ Heard on the Street column who doubt this will work and outline their reasons. If so it will be a costly error as job losses continue to worsen the situation each month that passes without a solution that works.
Grouped Articles
A Conflict in Geithner's New Job- Not Exactly
New York Times 11/18/13
Obama, Geithner Get Low Grades From Economists
Wall Street Journal 03/11/09
Book Review: 'Stress Test' by Timothy F. Geithner
Wall Street Journal 05/12/14
The Case Against the Bernanke-Obama Financial Rescue
New York Times 05/16/14
New York Times 05/17/14
New York Times 05/19/14
Summers and "contamination", spending so much time with hedge funds that you think like them.
01/02/2009
Summers worked for D.E. Shaw, a large fund, in 2008. He was managing director and was paid $5.1 million for one day aweek at that fund.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 05/16/10
Fed's Yellen, Husband Worth Up to $13.2 Million in 2012
Wall Street Journal 08/28/13
Hedge Funders Are All a Little Nuts
Wall Street Journal 08/27/13
Letters Show Little-Known Side of Summers
Wall Street Journal 09/13/13
Summers Withdraws Name for Fed Chairmanship
Wall Street Journal 09/16/13
Wall Street Journal 09/15/13
The policy team of the Obama Adminstration in 2010-2011.
01/02/2009
The exit of Summers, Emmanuel, Orszag, Jones and others.
Grouped Articles
Moving forward after the debt deal - The Washington Post
Washington Post 08/02/11
New York Times 05/16/10
Fed's Yellen, Husband Worth Up to $13.2 Million in 2012
Wall Street Journal 08/28/13
Summers Withdraws Name for Fed Chairmanship
Wall Street Journal 09/16/13
Wall Street Journal 09/15/13
Chicago Mayor’s Race Is Cast as a Test of Liberalism
New York Times 03/21/15
Raghuram Rajan's paper on the risks to the U.S. financial system at the Jackson Hole Fed conference in 2005
01/02/2009
Grouped Articles
Mr. Rajan Was Unpopular (But Prescient) at Greenspan Party
Wall Street Journal 01/02/09
Krugman on the Obama Administration, banks, settlements and the U.S. foreclosure crisis in 2011
01/02/2009
Failure of the Obama administration to reduce foreclosures and help homeowners. A worsening foreclosure situation leads to a continuing decline in housing prices and hampers an economic recovery in the U.S. This is something Martin Feldstein grasped very early during the 2008 financial crisis and made proposals for helping homeowners under water.
Grouped Articles
Washington Post 09/06/11
Book portrays dysfunction in Obama White House - The Washington Post
Washington Post 09/17/11
A Toxic Subprime Mortgage Bond's Legacy Lives On
Wall Street Journal 09/13/13
Plunge in Home Sales Stokes Economy Fears
Wall Street Journal 08/25/10
Wall Street Journal 12/31/13
Charlie Rose Talks to Robert Reich
BusinessWeek 10/21/10
Raghuram Rajan
01/02/2009
Former IMF chief economist and critic of Greenspan policies.
Grouped Articles
Mr. Rajan Was Unpopular (But Prescient) at Greenspan Party
Wall Street Journal 01/02/09
India's Central Banker Lobbies Fed
Wall Street Journal 10/13/13
Balancing Act for Indiaâs Top Banker
New York Times 11/07/13
Interest Rates: The Zero Percent Solution
BusinessWeek 08/25/10
BusinessWeek 11/04/10
After the Bailouts, Washington's the Boss
Wall Street Journal 12/29/09
Excessive leverage, off balance sheet accounting and the financial crisis of 2008
01/02/2009
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 12/21/10
Role of Auditors in Crisis Gets Look
Wall Street Journal 12/23/10
Financial Crisis Was Avoidable, Inquiry Concludes
New York Times 01/25/11
In Financial Crisis, No Prosecutions of Top Figures
New York Times 04/14/11
Federal Agencies' Responses on Enforcement Actions
New York Times 04/14/11
Red Flags on NovaStarâs Mortgages Were Unheeded
New York Times 05/21/11
Financial regulatory reform and lobbying by the U.S. financial industry.
01/02/2009
The extensive influence of lobbyists for the banking industry in the Obama administration The cozy relationship of bankers at Chase and Goldman with Rahm Emmanuel, White House chief of staff, and Geithner, the Treasury Secretary.
Grouped Articles
Banks' Lobbyists Help in Drafting Financial Bills
New York Times 05/23/13
New York Times 12/27/11
Trench Warfare: Send In the Deputies
New York Times 04/16/10
New York Times 04/18/10
The Power Behind the Throne at the Federal Reserve
New York Times 07/31/13
Obama Presses Regulators to Finish Financial Rules
Wall Street Journal 08/20/13
Cadmium contaminated rice in China in 2013
01/01/2009
Details of a soil survey across China are not released by a Chinese Environment Ministry. Independent estimates from Nanjing Agricultural University from a 2007-2008 survey found about 10% of rice in China being contaminated by high levels of cadmium. Rice samples from markets in Guangzhou taken in May 2013 were found to be contaminated with cadmium. Lax enforcement of environmental laws during the period of rapid industrialization of the last 2 decades have left lasting damage to China's land and rivers.
Grouped Articles
China Seeks to Calm Anxiety Over Rice
Wall Street Journal 05/22/13
Cadmium-Tainted Rice Discovered in Southern China
New York Times 05/21/13
Wall Street Journal 05/22/13
Chinese Search for Infant Formula Goes Global
New York Times 07/25/13
Pollution Rising, Chinese Fear for Soil and Food
New York Times 12/30/13
New York Times 04/04/14
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