Tax havens for despots, criminals and the Fortune 500
[caption id="attachment_21172" align="alignnone" width="620"] The HSBC corporate logo outside a
Political takeaways from the Federal Reserve transcripts
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So the economists weren’t to blame for the financial crisis
Instead, "Dani Rodrik informs us gleefully":http://rodrik.typepad.com/dani_rodriks_weblog/2009/05/phew.html, it was a "guy
Thomas Ferguson and how to stop AIG’s bonuses
I enjoy reading Tom Ferguson. He has a nice post
Does Lobbying Buy a Better Bailout?
Bailout monies as a fraction of assets are on the
Dark Financial Clouds Over Professional Sports
A couple of days ago I put up a tongue-in-cheek
Clinton vs. Eichengreen on the origins of the crisis
Over at "the other place where I blog":http://crookedtimber.org/2008/09/23/clinton-on-the-bail-out/ I write