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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 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 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 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 |
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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