By Ben Eltham on March 24, 2009
Wall Street and and the ASX have rallied hard in approval of US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s bank rescue plan. In this post I am going to examine the Geithner plan, try and describe and explain what it is, and [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets, USA | Tagged bail-out, Brad DeLong, Economics, finance, global financial crisis, Gregory Mankiw, Paul Krugman, subprime, TALF, TARP, Timothy Geithner, toxic assets |
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 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 3, 2008
Timothy Garton Ash, writing in The Guardian, has picked it:
Posted in Economics, Levity, Markets, Politics, USA | Tagged American politics, credit crisis, financial markets, GOP, House Republicans, TARP, Thaddeus McCotter, us economy, Wall Street |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 2, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/fdr.jpg" align=left One point of view that’s been expressed about the financial markets crisis can be summed up by something I read at Crooks & Liars today: Have you noticed that every person suddenly knows everything there is to [...]
Posted in Economics, Foreign Elections, Poverty, Sociology, USA | Tagged barack obama, blogosphere, credit crisis, economic policy, economic sociology, Economics, FDR, financial markets, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Karl Polanyi, New Deal, New New Deal, political economy, Sociology, TARP, us economy, 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 October 1, 2008
[I'm borrowing the pun from Michael Bérubé] In the absence of any more “game changing” impulsive madness from Walnuts, all eyes will probably be on the Veeps debate on Friday – although our friends in the House Republicans or more [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections, USA | Tagged Culture Wars, debates, financial markets, GOP, John McCain, mainstream media, Michael Bérubé, Paulson bailout, political strategy, postmodern politics, Rebecca Traister, sarah palin, TARP, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, vice presidential debate, Wall Street |
By Kim on September 30, 2008
On a day when fear ran rampant around “the markets”, some distraction from the Apocalypse might come from considering horror movies. Incidentally, lots of the pre-tribulationist Rapture watchers in the US have been expecting the world to end on Rosh [...]
Posted in Apocalypse, Disasters, Film, TV, Video etc, Markets, USA | Tagged Apocalypse, David Lynch, financial markets, horror movies, Mulholland Drive, pre-tribulationist, Rapture, Rosh Hashanah, scary movies, TARP, us economy |
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 |
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