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06/23/2026
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U.S. educational system.
10/30/2008
Grouped Articles
U.S. Schools Chief Arne Duncan Labors to Straddle Political Divide
Wall Street Journal 07/22/2013
The Great Stagnation in American Education
New York Times 09/07/2013
Peterson and Hanushek: The Vital Link of Education and Prosperity
Wall Street Journal 09/11/2013
New York Times 01/18/2014
Arne Duncan: Better education starts with honesty about achievement gaps - The Washington Post
Washington Post 01/24/2014
Obama Outlines Plan for Education Overhaul
New York Times 03/11/2009
U.S. Supreme Court and other legal rulings affecting the pharmaceutical industry.
10/27/2008
The Wyeth vs. Levine and other rulings by the Supreme Court that affect pharmaceutical companies, and how they respond to meeting norms of proper behaviour that are expected of the companies.
Grouped Articles
In Drug Case, Justices to Weigh Right to Sue
Wall Street Journal 10/27/2008
High Court Eases Way to Liability Lawsuits
Wall Street Journal 03/05/2009
Supremes Set Different Rules for Suing Device, Drug Makers
Wall Street Journal 03/04/2009
Ruling Ripples Beyond Drug Firms
Wall Street Journal 03/05/2009
44 Percent of Americans Approve of Supreme Court in New Poll
New York Times 06/07/2012
Roberts Straddles Ideological Divide
Wall Street Journal 06/29/2012
Kenneth Griffin and his Citadel hedge fund.
10/25/2008
Citadel lost $8 billion of its investors (pension funds, endowments and the superrich) in 2008. In 2009 he is trying to get investors back to his fund but is meeting resistance from those who remember the losses in 2008.
Grouped Articles
Hedge Funders Are All a Little Nuts
Wall Street Journal 08/27/2013
Citadel’s Ken Griffin Leaves 2008 Tumble Far Behind
Wall Street Journal 08/04/2015
Citadel Chief Denies Rumors of Trouble
New York Times 10/25/2008
A Hedge-Fund King Comes Under Siege
Wall Street Journal 11/20/2009
In Lieu of Bailout, a New Strategy
New York Times 01/19/2009
Vision of America's Future- Infrastructure Building
10/21/2008
Grouped Articles
A Slowdown on the Road to Recovery
Wall Street Journal 10/14/2013
Obama Calls for $50 Billion Public Works Plan
New York Times 09/06/2010
New York Times 11/17/2009
Where Infrastructure Estimates Come Up Short
Wall Street Journal 10/16/2010
Infrastructure spending: False expectations
Economist 10/23/2010
Pitch for Rebuilding Infrastructure Carries Political Challenges
New York Times 01/24/2011
Infrastructure Needs-the USA's antiquated air traffic control system.
10/21/2008
Grouped Articles
Obama Calls for $50 Billion Public Works Plan
New York Times 09/06/2010
Tech Snafu Grounds Nation's Fliers
Wall Street Journal 11/20/2009
Infrastructure spending: False expectations
Economist 10/23/2010
Pitch for Rebuilding Infrastructure Carries Political Challenges
New York Times 01/24/2011
Challenge for the Next President: Infrastructure
BusinessWeek 10/21/2008
Sky Wars: Europe Battles to Erase Borders in the Air
Wall Street Journal 05/04/2011
The Failure of Infrastructure Building under the Obama administration.
10/21/2008
Only a small portion- about one fifth according to one estimate- of the $787 Stimulus Bill was actually allocated for infrastructure building. And in some cases such as high speed rail only $8 billion was allocated, clearly insufficient to build a high speed rail system in te USA. And public perception is that infrastructure allocation has already taken place, so it has ceased to be a priority even though the nation's infrastructure needs rebuilding.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 09/06/2011
A Slowdown on the Road to Recovery
Wall Street Journal 10/14/2013
Obama's Infrastructure Plan: More Cash Could Hit the Road
BusinessWeek 09/08/2010
Infrastructure spending: False expectations
Economist 10/23/2010
Obama Successes Outweighed by Job Losses
New York Times 10/26/2010
Pitch for Rebuilding Infrastructure Carries Political Challenges
New York Times 01/24/2011
China in the global financial crisis of 2008.
10/20/2008
The impact of the global slowdown on China's economy and the impact of China's slowdown on the USA, Germany, Japan and South Korea and other countries.
Grouped Articles
Chinese Bank Regulator Warns of Loan Risks
Wall Street Journal 06/17/2010
Trade Losses Rise in China, Threatening Jobs
New York Times 01/14/2009
South Korean Exports Take Massive Hit
Wall Street Journal 02/02/2009
Tax Cut Spurs 25% Rise in Chinese Auto Sales
Wall Street Journal 03/11/2009
As Factories Fail, China's Business Law Does, Too
BusinessWeek 04/02/2009
New York Times 04/03/2009
Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve chairman's role in the Rescue Plan in the global financial crisis Sept-October 2008.
10/14/2008
Bernanke's role in the financial crisis of Sept 2008.
Grouped Articles
Fed Chairmanâs Departure Casts a New Light on the Bush Legacy
New York Times 07/26/2013
Reflections by America’s Buddha of Banking
New York Times 01/16/2014
Robert Samuelson: Bernanke’s triumph -; and defeat - The Washington Post
Washington Post 01/27/2014
Ben S. Bernanke - What the Fed did and why: supporting the recovery and sustaining price stability
Washington Post 11/04/2010
New View Into Fed's Response to Crisis
Wall Street Journal 02/22/2014
Dream Mortgage Bailout Has a Darker Side
Wall Street Journal 04/03/2009
Morgan Stanley credit ratings
10/14/2008
Grouped Articles
Morgan Stanley Memo by John Mack
Wall Street Journal 10/14/2008
Three Major Banks Prepare for Possible Credit Downgrades
New York Times 03/29/2012
Morgan Stanley Posts Loss on Charge
Wall Street Journal 04/20/2012
Wall Street Journal 06/22/2012
Morgan Stanley Spared a Sharper Cut
Wall Street Journal 06/22/2012
Ratings Downgrade Cuts Deeply at Morgan Stanley
New York Times 06/21/2012
How debt can suddenly sink firms as business swings lead to a drying up of business.
10/14/2008
It can happen to GM and Chrysler, and a near miss for Ford and Morgan Stanley. Goldman Sachs is only pretending that it did not have a near miss after Lehman's collapse. The same can happen to an architectural firm Yamasaki as corporate real estate market collapses in 2009. The volatility and nervousness in financial markets in 2008 that shut companies out of credit markets and led to the government led auto industry bailout with planned bankruptcy filings.
Grouped Articles
A Warning Light to Alert the I.M.F.
New York Times 09/21/2011
After a Financial Flood, Pipes Are Still Broken
New York Times 09/14/2013
Morgan Stanley Memo by John Mack
Wall Street Journal 10/14/2008
Anatomy of the Morgan Stanley Panic
Wall Street Journal 11/24/2008
Wall Street Journal 03/14/2009
Morgan Stanley Comes Up Golden
Wall Street Journal 07/22/2011
Nationalization of banks in the U.K.
10/13/2008
With the collapse of RBS and other banks nationalization is increasingly being considered as a serious option.
Grouped Articles
Bank Bailout Blues Stall U.K. Recovery
Wall Street Journal 05/14/2013
Wall Street Journal 06/13/2013
New York Times 06/12/2013
Irreversible Damage: Why Little Action on Banking Can Do Great Harm.
New York Times 04/30/2010
New York Times 04/01/2009
New York Times 10/13/2008
Fine Print in the $700 billion bailout plan and the wide authority to interpret
10/12/2008
The fine print in the $700 billon bailout plan passed by Congress says that Treasury can buy "any instrument" giving it wide authority to interpret as necessary to tackle the financial crisis. Alan Blinder a former Fed vice chairman takes a look at it.
Grouped Articles
Got $700 Billion? Sweat the Details
New York Times 10/12/2008
Wall Street Journal 07/27/2009
A Year After a Cataclysm, Little Change on Wall St.
New York Times 09/12/2009
Bill Shields Most Banks From Review
New York Times 10/16/2009
Wall Street Journal 06/01/2012
Longest Days of the 2008 financial crisis (2)- Panic, possible collapse and survival of Morgan Stanley, Sepember 16-17, 2008
10/10/2008
Grouped Articles
Anatomy of the Morgan Stanley Panic
Wall Street Journal 11/24/2008
Morgan Stanley Memo by John Mack
Wall Street Journal 10/14/2008
New York Times 10/10/2008
The U.S. pharmaceutical market.
10/29/2008
Grouped Articles
Outlook Is Cut for U.S. Drug Sales
Wall Street Journal 10/29/08
Wall Street Journal 05/08/12
Ben Bernanke, post-Fed role as advisor at Citadel Hedge Fund
10/25/2008
Grouped Articles
Ben Bernanke Will Work With Citadel, a Hedge Fund, as an Adviser
New York Times 04/16/15
Wall Street Journal 05/08/15
Citadel’s Ken Griffin Leaves 2008 Tumble Far Behind
Wall Street Journal 08/04/15
Citadel Chief Denies Rumors of Trouble
New York Times 10/25/08
A hedge fund story of fall and recovery- Ken Griffin of Citadel hedge fund in 2008 and in 2015
10/25/2008
Citadel had leverage of $3 in borrowed funds for $1 of client money in 2008 to make investments. It nearly collapsed in the 2008 financial crisis with losses ranging from 35-60%, losses of $8 billion. In 2015 it has $7 of borrowed funds for $1 of client money for investments, according to the WSJ. It now makes investment bets equally in up and down markets to offset the higher risk, so that only 52% of the bets need to work. It recovered during the last crisis by barring investors from withdrawing money for 8 months. By taking aggressive positions early in the recovery of the market Citadel made $3 billion in 2013-2015. Many of the hedge funds are now less aggressive than Citadel following the 2008 financial crisis, preferring to target smaller returns and improve the image with clients such as college endowments and pension funds.
Grouped Articles
Citadel’s Ken Griffin Leaves 2008 Tumble Far Behind
Wall Street Journal 08/04/15
Citadel Chief Denies Rumors of Trouble
New York Times 10/25/08
Funding of needed US infrastructure.
10/21/2008
Grouped Articles
A Slowdown on the Road to Recovery
Wall Street Journal 10/14/13
Obama Calls for $50 Billion Public Works Plan
New York Times 09/06/10
Where Infrastructure Estimates Come Up Short
Wall Street Journal 10/16/10
Infrastructure spending: False expectations
Economist 10/23/10
Pitch for Rebuilding Infrastructure Carries Political Challenges
New York Times 01/24/11
Finding a Fix for the Tappan Zee
Wall Street Journal 02/15/11
U.S. Infrastructure needs 2010-2015
10/21/2008
Grouped Articles
A Slowdown on the Road to Recovery
Wall Street Journal 10/14/13
Obama Calls for $50 Billion Public Works Plan
New York Times 09/06/10
Obama's Infrastructure Plan: More Cash Could Hit the Road
BusinessWeek 09/08/10
A Colossal Bridge Will Rise Across the Hudson
New York Times 01/19/14
New York Times 10/26/14
Aging Infrastructure Plagues Nation’s Busiest Rail Corridor
New York Times 07/26/15
A must read from soviet archives about a Soviet general making the same request McChrystal is making.
10/20/2008
With 110,000 troops in Afghnistan, Soviet general Akhromeyev made the request for more troops in the seventh year of a nine year Soviet Afghan conflict. The Soviets could not maintain political control outside the provincial capitals as the insurgents simply disappeared into the hills, in so vast a country, is how he put it to the Soviet Politburo. In th same manner Russian Ambassador to Kabul, Kabulov, who was the KGB chief in Kabul during the soviet Afghan conflict, says there is an "irrtitive allergy" to foreigners for Afghans in the villages and hills that makes a large foreign presence costly and dangerous approach. A must read as the US is at a similiar juncture in its version of the Afghan conflict, and bad choices could prove very costly for the country as it did for the soviets.
Grouped Articles
McChrystal article renews attention to split with Biden over Afghanistan
Washington Post 06/23/10
Weakening, possible firing of McChrystal compounds sense of peril in Afghanistan
Washington Post 06/23/10
An Old Afghanistan Hand Offers Lessons of the Past
New York Times 10/20/08
New York Times 10/29/09
Soviets' Afghan Ordeal Vexed Gates on Troop-Surge Plan
Wall Street Journal 11/30/09
SAP Readies Software for RIM's New Tablet
Wall Street Journal 11/20/10
Longest Days of the 2008 financial crisis (1)- October 13, 2008, 3.00 pm at the Treasury Building, Washingon D.C., a meeting for $125 billion capital injection into U.S. banks
10/15/2008
Treasury Secretary Paulson meets the heads of major U.S. banks at the Treasury Building. Only Paulson, Fed chairman Bernanke, Sheila Bair of FDIC, and Geithner of the New York Fed on the government side knows why they are meeting. Termsheets are handed out and returned signed.
Grouped Articles
At Moment of Truth, U.S. Forced Big Bankers to Blink
Wall Street Journal 10/15/08
Anatomy of the Morgan Stanley Panic
Wall Street Journal 11/24/08
Obama, Geithner Get Low Grades From Economists
Wall Street Journal 03/11/09
Dream Mortgage Bailout Has a Darker Side
Wall Street Journal 04/03/09
Wall Street Journal 04/06/09
Globalization: Capitalism Should Be Nicer | ZEIT ONLINE
ZEIT ONLINE 07/29/16
Morgan Stanley management
10/14/2008
Grouped Articles
Morgan Stanley Seeks a Fixed-Income Fix
Wall Street Journal 04/18/13
Wall Street Journal 04/19/13
Strong Earnings, Buyback Plans Boost Morgan Stanley
Wall Street Journal 07/19/13
Morgan Stanley Buys Its Way Back Into Investors' Good Book
Wall Street Journal 07/18/13
Morgan Stanley Memo by John Mack
Wall Street Journal 10/14/08
James Gorman of Morgan Stanley, Going Against Type
New York Times 06/28/14
One of the Big Three may not surviive.
10/14/2008
One of the Big three may disappear as a result of the credit crisis declining sales and the economic fallout from the global financial crisis.
Grouped Articles
Howes: One of Big 3 may not survive
Detroit News 10/14/08
Detroit News 10/14/08
UAW chief opposes GM-Chrysler merger
Detroit News 10/14/08
Detroit Free Press 10/14/08
Advice from leaders of other countries who have experienced a global financial crisis.
10/13/2008
Advice from Guillermo Ortiz of Mexico who as Finance Minister experienced a global financial crisis, and as central bank governor is handling this one. And advice from Edmund Phelps and others.
Grouped Articles
Emerging-Market Slide Tests How Much Nations Learned From Past
Wall Street Journal 01/30/14
U.S. Recession Stymies Mexico's Growth for 2009
Wall Street Journal 01/09/09
Mexican Crisis Holds Lessons for U.S.
Wall Street Journal 10/13/08
Asian Officials Push Back Against Savings Glut Theory
Wall Street Journal 07/04/09
A Year After a Cataclysm, Little Change on Wall St.
New York Times 09/12/09
Mexico’s economy: Making the desert bloom
Economist 08/27/11
Latin American economies Brazil and Mexico in the global financial crisis of 2008
10/13/2008
Effects of the crisis on Latin American economies.
Grouped Articles
Tide Reverses in Latin America
Wall Street Journal 09/08/13
Emerging-Market Slide Tests How Much Nations Learned From Past
Wall Street Journal 01/30/14
U.S. Recession Stymies Mexico's Growth for 2009
Wall Street Journal 01/09/09
World Bank Says Global Economy Will Shrink in ’09
New York Times 03/09/09
New York Times 04/01/09
Brazil’s ‘Teflon’ Leader Nicked by Slump
New York Times 04/03/09
Executive Compensation and how it has led at outrageous levels to changing behaviour.
10/11/2008
With outrageous amounts of executive compensation running into tens of or hundreds of millons, behaviour of executives involved has changed from ethical to unethical depending on the ethical base of the person involved.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Bonuses Are an Outrage
Wall Street Journal 02/04/09
Documents Show AIG Knew Of Problems With Valuations
Wall Street Journal 10/11/08
E.U. Seeks Global Agreement on Bonus Curbs
New York Times 09/17/09
Fed Considers Sweeping Rules to Regulate Pay at Banks
New York Times 09/19/09
Fed's Plan on Banker Pay Divides Industry
Wall Street Journal 09/19/09
Fed Abandons Its Reserve on Banker Pay
Wall Street Journal 09/19/09
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