Financial Crisis

Jeffrey Friedman on the Financial Crisis, Arnold Kling | EconLog ...

Critical Review is publishing a special issue on the financial crisis. I have uploaded Jeffrey Friedman's introduction. I strongly recommend the entire issue. The paper by Acharya and Richardson is the one that most closely reflects my ...
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Ireland's financial crisis leads to another downgrade

Ireland's financial crisis leads to another downgrade. Tim Catts Jul 2nd 2009 at 2:00PM. Text SizeAAA. Filed under: Economy, Investing. More. In the latest sign that the global recession has Ireland's "Celtic Tiger" in its cross hairs, ...
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Financial Crisis News Center: NCUA Consumer Protection Office Proposed

This story appeared in Bank Digest. National Credit Union Administration Chairman Michael E. Fryzel has announced that he will propose the creation of an NCUA Consumer Protection Office in the 2010 Agency Budget.
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Financial Crisis News Center: Home Affordable Refinance Program ...

This story appeared in Bank Digest. The Federal Housing Finance Agency has authorized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to expand the Home Affordable Refinance Program to homeowners who are current on their mortgage payments from the present ...
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The Global Financial Crisis: Lessons Learned and Challenges for ...

Almost two years ago, the global economy and financial system entered a severe crisis. The incidence and ramifications of the crisis were obscure. Even now, the full dimensions and consequences are not known, but almost certainly this ...
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Global Investing » Blog Archive » Financial crisis helps Berlin ...

Berlin is slowly but surely establishing itself as one of the top global catwalks for the bold and the beautiful of the world of high fashion – and the global financial crisis seems to be doing nothing to slow it down. ...
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PSI blog on the Financial Crisis: Free Trade” talks are not the ...

Civil society groups and global social movements gathering at the UN summit on the global economic crisis have denounced rich industrialized countries' insistence on pushing forward unbalanced trade talks, misnamed “free trade”, ...
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RGE - Has the Financial Crisis Corrected the Exchange Rate in Brazil?

That means that if the financial crisis persists, the Brazilian currency might have to devalue further. Such additional devaluations are directly associated with corrections in terms of trade (commodity prices) as well as with a rise in ...
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Financial Crisis News Center: Interim Final Rule on Prior Approval ...

This story appeared in Bank Digest. The Federal Housing Finance Agency has issued an interim final regulation to implement section 1321 of the Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992, as amended by section ...
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The Future of Print: Financial crisis coverage dominates Loeb Awards

The New York Times, which received three Loeb Awards, was honored for "The Reckoning," a 19-part account of who and what was to blame for the financial crisis. Lawrence Ingrassia, business and financial editor at The New York Times and ...
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