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Hope for Homeowners hedging terms

rdan The NYT shows us this angle on the bailout: William Frey, the president of one of the funds, Greenwich Financial Services of Greenwich, Conn., said that he was acting…

Krugman’s Nobel

by cactus There seems to be a fair amount of anger in some corners about Krugman’s Nobel. A few thoughts about the complaints: 1. Kary Mullis believes in astrology. William

The Wrong Crisis

…was absurd in a direction helpful to the investment banks. The crisis ended when the President of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, William McDonough told the investment banks to…

Why pay interest on excess reserves?

rdan William Polley has a note on paying interest with links to Altig, DeLong, and others: David Altig takes up the question with links back to Marginal Revolution, DeLong, as…

A Look at an Incredibly Silly Story

…they can afford. The housing stock cannot recirculate. Banks that acquired this mortgage paper see their portfolios nosedive. That dicey paper, as William Isaac noted in last week’s Wall Street…

Pull Quote of the Day from a National Review loyalist

Wick Allison, editor-in-chief of D Magazine and who succeeded William Rusher as the publisher of the National Review says what I’ve been saying for months about Barack Obama. But those…

Angry Bear Center for School Teachers

…future. What are your thoughts? Our friend William Polley was just over there to comment on Marginal thinking in the Olympics regarding false starts between swimmers and track and field….

Meme of The Day: "Bond Vigilantes"

…be president, which is why I did not hesitate, the day before the election, to bet $10,000 on William Jefferson Clinton being elected in 1992.* But there is no sign…

Mankiw and Wm. Randolph CBO report

William C. Randolph of the Congressional Budget Office [who] estimated who wins and who loses from this tax. He concluded that ‘domestic labor bears slightly more than 70 percent of…

Swiss Bank UBS settles losses to towns

The Dailey New Transcript reports: Dedham Town administrator William Keegan says a $120,000 settlement Dedham will receive from Swiss bank UBS for an investment that failed will cover the town’s…