Raghu Rajan is blogging

Commenters here had a number of things to say in response to Chicago economist Raghu Rajan’s thoughts about the (ongoing) causes of financial and economic strain in the global economy. So folks might also be interested to know that Rajan himself is now blogging. You can read his blog here, presumably for at least as long [...]

Are we ignoring the real causes of the financial crisis?

Oops. I forgot to link to this Q&A with University of Chicago economist Raghuram Rajan on Time.com when it went up. Here is it now. Rajan made a big splash at Jackson Hole back in 2005 when he stood up in front of a room full of prominent economic policy makers and gave a speech [...]

Should we get rid of deposit insurance?

The other day I spoke with University of Chicago economist Raghuram Rajan. Rajan made a big splash at Jackson Hole back in 2005 when he stood up in front of a room full of prominent economic policy makers and gave a speech about all the risk that was building up in the financial system. He said we [...]