…a few days after Jane but first seemed to use the label ‘Catfood Commission’ in connection with the attempt to attach Conrad-Gregg to the Debt Limit Bill in this post…

…will be evident in a moment, I had to label each recession (or rather, post-recession period), the graph is a little busy. Note also that I am assuming that the…

…post is long on intellectual type of thought and short on examples. But it is instructive to note that the energy behind a belief is not something that ebbs and…

…in private-label securities. These securities included subprime loans, which were extended to people with thin or weak credit histories, as well as exotic loans such as adjustable-rate mortgages known as…

…I wonder if he is even aware that economic historians label the 1870’s as the “Long Depression”. I find it really amusing that he so proud of what others call…

…and worked for a couple of Boston investment management firms as their in house economist, investment strategist for some 12 years. My original field of study was international economics and…

…cost “a quarter of a trillion dollars” perhaps hoping people are still scared by the label rather than the number. Because in the context of a $750 billion TARP package…

…there is a column equating to ‘Income – Cost’ which is labeled ‘Net increase during the Year’. Now the Trustees don’t label this as ‘Surplus’ but there is little doubt…

…purchasing companies] were known as “leveraged-buyout operators.” But LBO became a bad name. … Their new label became “private equity,” a name that turns the facts upside-down: A purchase of…

…them from really high-risk activity. The old investment banks, when they existed as free-standing institutions, could engage in no activity that didn’t present a conflict with other customer interests. That…