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UPDATE:Former Bush Treasury Official Blames Govt For Fincl Crisis

with John B. Taylorvia Dow Jones Newswires
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

A top former Treasury official under the Bush administration laid the blame for the financial crisis at the foot of the government Tuesday, and said the government is itself the biggest risk to the economy in the months and years ahead...

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Greenspan Sees ‘Seeds of a Bottoming’ in U.S. Housing

with John B. Taylorvia Bloomberg
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said that the decline in the U.S. housing market may be bottoming and it’s “very easy to see” financial markets continuing to improve...

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Central banks must target more than just inflation

with John B. Taylorvia Financial Times
Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Did inflation targeting fail?...

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The thinkers who predicted early on many aspects of this financial crisis

with Niall Fergusonvia RGE Monitor (NY)
Friday, May 1, 2009

Time magazine has kindly included me in its annual list of The 100 Most Influential People in the World...

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Will Quantitative Easing Work?

with John B. Taylorvia Seeking Alpha
Friday, May 1, 2009

Long-term bond yields around the world have been rising recently...

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Krugman vs. Ferguson: a Battle of Decades

with Niall Fergusonvia Big Money (Blog)
Friday, May 1, 2009

So often discussion of economic policy drifts into "decade talk."...

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Same Data, Conflicting Forecasts

with Niall Fergusonvia New York Times
Friday, May 1, 2009

In the month since I last wrote in this space, there has been a surge of financial optimism...

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When Will The Fed Take A Hike?

with John B. Taylorvia Forbes
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

The Federal Open Market Committee won't raise the federal funds rate anytime soon, but you night be surprised by how long the Fed might keep rates at current, near-zero levels, if the committee follows its typical reasoning...

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Gary Becker says markets aren't rational; endorses Yglesias approach to financial regulation

with Gary S. Beckervia Time Magazine Online
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

University of Chicago economist Gary Becker, in the midst of a mostly predictable analysis of the financial crisis and criticism of the Obama stimulus package at lunch at the Milken hoedown today, said a couple of interesting things: 1) Becker has built an estimable career around the notion that individuals generally respond rationally to economic incentives, even in areas not normally thought of as economic...

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Central Banks Cannot Easily Maintain their Independence

by Gary S. Beckervia Becker-Posner Blog
Sunday, April 26, 2009

Most richer nations nowadays, and many developing nations, have "independent" central banks, such as the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve Bank...

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