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By Kim on November 5, 2008
It’s all over, red rover, and Barack Obama, with 200 electoral votes in the bag and enough in the bag to come from the West Coast and Midwest to come, has won the presidential election. Lots of interesting stuff still [...]
Posted in Economics, Foreign Elections, Markets, USA | Tagged barack obama, Democratic Party, Democrats, economic policy, election results, electoral college, FDR, George W. Bush, global financial crisis, henry paulson, presidential transition, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
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 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 |
By Kim on October 2, 2008
Some Democratic congressfolks have had the intriguing and unorthodox idea that the role of Congress is to legislate. Ian Welsh has the details on the preparation of alternative bills to the Paulson take it or leave it (with bells and [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets, USA | Tagged banks, Congress, credit crisis, David Scott, Elijah Cummings, financial markets, henry paulson, House Democrats, Ian Welsh, interest rates, Lateline, Lloyd Doggett, Malcolm Turnbull, Paul Keating, Peter De Fazio, reserve bank, TARP, us economy, us treasury, Wall Street |
By Kim on September 30, 2008
The Nancy Pelosi speech that made the Republicans cry: Context in this post about the Congressional rejection of TARP.
Posted in Economics, Foreign Elections, Markets, USA | Tagged Bush administration, credit crisis, financial markets, George W. Bush, GOP, henry paulson, House Democrats, House Republicans, Nancy Pelosi, Paulson bailout, TARP, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, Wall Street |
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 28, 2008
The details are a bit sketchy but it appears that agreement has been reached on some version of the Paulson bailout plan. Ian Welsh at Firedoglake, whose coverage of all these shenanigans has been first rate, has the lowdown on [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets, USA | Tagged bailout plan, Congress, financial markets, henry paulson, TARP, us treasury, Wall Street |
By Kim on September 26, 2008
It only gets more surreal. You can read about the latest at Crooks & Liars and Firedoglake. None of this is about the economy. It’s about rescuing McCain’s campaign, not Wall Street. But reportedly McCain’s “help” comes down to supporting [...]
Posted in Economics, Foreign Elections, Markets, USA | Tagged american election 2008, financial markets, GOP, henry paulson, John Boehmer, John McCain, Paulson bailout, Republicans, TARP, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, Wall Street |
By Kim on September 25, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/bill_clinton.jpeg" align=left I’m going to go out on a limb here. Bill Clinton is the only genuine political talent that creaking heap of donkeys, the beloved Democratic Party, has produced in an age. Damn that Twenty-Second Amendment. Obama plays [...]
Posted in Economics, Foreign Elections, Markets, USA | Tagged american election 2008, barack obama, Bill Clinton, Bush administration, Democratic Party, Democrats, financial crisis, financial markets, GOP, Henry Farrell, henry paulson, John McCain, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, Wall Street |
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 22, 2008
There’s an informative links post at Obsidian Wings from hilzoy. And a bit of food for thought: I do not want to hear people tell me that regulation cripples the economy, unless they are willing to admit that a lack [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets | Tagged ALP, banks, economic management, economic policy, financial crisis, financial markets, henry paulson, IMF, inflation, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, market bailout, Peter Costello, TARP, us treasury, Wall Street, Wayne Swan |
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