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By Kim on August 8, 2011
On one hand, this whole global financial crisis (is that what we’re having again?) thing is horrendously complex. On the other, it’s quite simple. Let’s focus on the simple. The meltdown that followed the end of the credit and housing [...]
Posted in Economics, International, Politics | Tagged animal spirits, credit, debt, demand, Eurozone, financial markets, G20, GFC, gordon brown, international economics, Journey, Kevin Rudd, Keynes, Keynesianism, market rationality, New Labour, regulation, stock market, Tony Blair |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 2, 2009
The Fin Review today published a big feature article on the financial plight of the state governments. And yes, Virginia, they’re all in a bit of a hole, with Victoria possibly an exception depending on whether the VTC head’s claims [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged Andrew Fraser, bonds, financial markets, GFC, infrastructure, sovereign debt, state governments, Wayne Swan |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 5, 2009
[Via The Interpreter] Italian journalist Federico Fubini went to Davos and surveyed finance market wizards and banker types about the origins of the Global Financial Crisis. The result? They’re not taking much responsibility, and were much comforted by the “Black [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets, Sociology | Tagged bankers, Black Swan events, Davos, financial markets, financialisation, global financial crisis, globalisation |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 16, 2008
The G20 Summit has come and gone, and if today’s coverage in the Australian press is any indication, the most important of the tea leaves to be read is whether George W. Bush snubbed Kevin Rudd over the “Kirribilli leak”. [...]
Posted in Economics, International, Media, Sociology, USA | Tagged Adolf Berle, australian media, barack obama, Bretton Woods, Capitalism, derivatives, FDR, financial markets, financialisation, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, free markets, G20, George W. Bush, global financial crisis, Great Depression, international finance, John Quiggin, Kevin Rudd, neo-liberalism, New Deal, political economy, regulation, securitisation, Sociology, summit |
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 Kim on October 28, 2008
As noted on this post, John Quiggin’s been having a look at Alan Greenspan’s rather muted confession of error: After this crisis, the Keynes-Minsky view of financial markets as inherently destabilising looks a lot more appealing than the opposing view, [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets, USA | Tagged alan greenspan, Ayn Rand, efficient markets hypothesis, financial markets, Fountainhead, global financial crisis, ideology, John Quiggin, libertarianism, neo-liberalism |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 27, 2008
I’m not sure if I’m the only one who found the juxtaposition on the news last night of discussion of global regulation at a meeting between Chinese and EU leaders and George W. Bush’s “free markets are great!” remarks rather [...]
Posted in China, Developing world, Economics, Europe, Foreign Elections, Health, International, Markets, Polls, Sociology | Tagged alan greenspan, Barack Obabama, Bretton Woods II, business cycles, Capitalism, Democrats, economic policy, Economics, efficient markets hypothesis, financial markets, George W. Bush, global financial crisis, GOP, healthcare, ideology, John McCain, John Quiggin, Keynesianism, neo-liberalism, regulation, socialism, Sociology, sociology of knowledge, taxes, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 24, 2008
I kinda wish Kevin Rudd had never put his thoughts on Friedrich Von Hayek on paper, because had he not we’d have been saved some appallingly ill-informed “debates”. Although, if expert psephologist Janet Albrechtsen is right, Rudd’s articles on Howard’s [...]
Posted in Economics, History, Markets, Media, Philosophy, Sociology | Tagged alan wood, austrian economics, austrian economists, bank deposit guarantee, brutopia, collective action, economic policy, economic thought, Economics, epistemology, financial markets, free market, Friedrich Von Hayek, global financial crisis, historicism, ideology, Janet Albrechtsen, Kevin Rudd, Markets, Max Weber, methodensreit, neo-liberalism, philosophy of history, philosophy of social science, Rudd government, social action, Sociology, sociology of knowledge, unintended consequences |
By Kim on October 7, 2008
As a bit of an update to my post last night, the Essential Research poll is now out, basically showing no change from last time. Possum has more on all the other questions asked. So, we can now be more [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets, Media, Polls | Tagged ALP, cash rate, Coalition, economic crisis, financial markets, interest rate cut, interest rates, Kevin Rudd, Labor, liberal leadership, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Newspoll, Polls, psephological analysis, Reserve Banks, Rudd government, Wall Street |
By Kim on October 7, 2008
I wonder if no Newspoll is bad news for the pollsters and those who own them. This must be the first Monday in living memory (well, since anyone started paying attention to this stuff before last year’s campaign) when there [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets, Media, Polls | Tagged ALP, cash rate, Coalition, economic crisis, financial markets, interest rate cut, interest rates, Kevin Rudd, Labor, liberal leadership, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Newspoll, Polls, psephological analysis, reserve bank, Rudd government, Wall Street |
By Kim on October 4, 2008
Earlier on tonight, the indications were that the US House of Representatives would be voting around 2am AEST on the revised version of the TARP bailout bill (with extra billions of dollars in pork to attract lawmakers’ votes – added [...]
Posted in Blogging, Economics, Foreign Elections, Markets, USA | Tagged Congress, credit crisis, financial markets, henry paulson, House of Representatives, John McCain, liveblogging, Paulson bailout, TARP, us economic crisis, US election 2008, us treasury, USA Election 2008, Wall Street |
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