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By Mark Bahnisch on January 26, 2010
A number of US financial blogs are reporting that Ben Bernanke faces a chance of failure to be confirmed by the American Senate for a second term in office. James Bianco at The Big Picture has all the details, and [...]
Posted in International, Markets, Politics, USA | Tagged alan greenspan, barack obama, Ben bernanke, central banks, Fed, federal reserve, global finance, global financial crisis, gordon brown, health care, ideology, James Bianco, Markets, Massachussetts, Naked Capitalism, neo-liberalism, Politics, Scott Brown, Senate, The Big Picture, us economy, US politics, Wall Street |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 28, 2008
One of the intriguing things about wading through some of the business and economics shelves of some CBD bookshops in (fruitless) search of some of the titles John Quiggin reviewed in the Fin Review on Friday (not online of course) [...]
Posted in China, Developing world, Economics, Europe, International, Markets, Sociology, USA | Tagged Ben bernanke, business cycle, Capitalism, economic policy, Economics, financial markets, free markets, global financial crisis, globalisation, henry paulson, ideology, Immanuel Wallerstein, John Quiggin, Karl Polanyi, libertarianism, neo-liberalism, New Left Review, political economy, Robert Wade, Sociology, sociology of knowledge, TARP |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 13, 2008
SocProf over at The Global Sociology Blog and I must be reading the same things, and thinking along similar lines, because I had planned to link to precisely the same articles she highlights in an update to my recent post [...]
Posted in Apocalypse, Disasters, Economics, Europe, Foreign Elections, International, Markets, Media, Nationalism, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged ALP, banks, Ben bernanke, Canadian election 2008, Capitalism, credit crisis, credit crunch, deregulation, economic crisis, economic policy, federal reserve, financial meltdown, financialisation, globalisation, gordon brown, Immanuel Wallerstein, interest rates, Kevin Rudd, krondatieff cycles, Labor, liquidity crisis, neo-liberalism, New Labour, political economy, politics & government, recession, regulation, social democracy, socialism, Sociology, stephen harper, stock markets, subprime mortgages, TARP, Tony Blair, us economy, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, Wall Street, Will Hutton, world economy, world systems theory |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 9, 2008
Iceland may be a barometer for what’s changing in the world economy. It was only very recently that the Milton Friedman fan club was hailing Iceland as a “Nordic Tiger”, lauding its flat taxes and praising its “economic freedom”. “Economic [...]
Posted in Activism, Consumerism, Culture, Economics, Ethics, International, Markets, Media, Politics, Poverty, Sociology, USA | Tagged alan greenspan, ALP, Andrew Crook, banks, Ben bernanke, Bill Clinton, Capitalism, credit crisis, credit crunch, deregulation, economic crisis, economic policy, federal reserve, financial meltdown, financialisation, globalisation, gordon brown, Guy Rundle, Iceland, interest rates, Kevin Rudd, Labor, liquidity crisis, Mark Davis, Milton Friedman, neo-liberalism, political economy, politics & government, recession, regulation, social democracy, socialism, Sociology, stock markets, subprime mortgages, TARP, us economy, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, Wall Street, world economy |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 29, 2008
The question’s in the air at the moment. In the Australian blogosphere, John Quiggin thinks the financial markets crisis has killed it off, while Nicholas Gruen is (rightly in my view) more skeptical. [In response to commenters, Quiggin goes on [...]
Posted in China, Developing world, Economics, Foreign Elections, Foreign policy, International, Markets, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology, USA, War | Tagged barack obama, Ben bernanke, Bush administration, christopher dodd, credit crisis, economic management, economic sociology, federal reserve, financial markets, henry paulson, market bailout, neoliberalism, political ideologies, political sociology, social democracy, socialism, sovereign wealth funds, sub prime mortgages, TARP, us economy, US election 2008, us treasury, USA Election 2008, Wall Street, Washington consensus |
By Kim on September 24, 2008
In an interview where he displayed to the full his immense self-regard, and incidentally engaged in his now customary tease about his future in politics, Peter Costello was asked by Tony Jones to comment on his warnings during the election [...]
Posted in China, Foreign policy, Markets, Media, USA | Tagged Ben bernanke, Bush administration, christopher dodd, economic management, federal reserve, financial markets, henry paulson, liberal leadership, market bailout, Peter Costello, sovereign wealth funds, TARP, us treasury, Wall Street |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 19, 2008
As a supplement to earlier posts on the sociology of the global financial crisis from Kim and dk.au, I thought I’d note something very interesting written by Henry Farrell at Crooked Timber. Farrell traces the shift in paradigm in the [...]
Posted in Economics, International, Markets, Media, Sociology, USA | Tagged barack obama, Ben bernanke, Bill Clinton, Bush administration, City of London, credit crisis, economic sociology, financial crisis, financial markets, financial regulation, globalisation, gordon brown, Henry Farrell, henry paulson, John McCain, Jon Cruddas, Labour, neoliberalism, New Labour, political economy, political sociology, Robert Skidelsky, social democracy, sociology of knowledge, sociology of science, sub prime crisis, US election 2008, us treasury, USA Election 2008, Wall Street |
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