I’m sitting here trying to figure out my column for this week—it’s about financial regulation, but I haven’t gotten much further than that. And yeah, I’m still Googling pretty regularly to see what kind of chatter is going on out there about my book. Which is how I happened to come across this brand-new column by Robert Teitelman, …
As part of what will be a continuing series of posts on things I should have written about weeks ago, but was too busy checking my book’s Amazon ranking to get to (it’s now bouncing around the mid 100s, which makes checking less fun, although it did debut on the WSJ business best-seller list Friday, at #12), here’s what’s up with …
I paid my first visit to New York’s new elevated park tonight. First thing tomorrow I’m headed down to D.C. for a meeting of something called the Financial Regulation Reform Collaborative, where I’m supposed to keep peace among the Bebchuks and the Posners in a panel discussion and generally learn stuff I don’t know. So don’t expect …
My new column on what happens after the recession ends is online, and if you’re really into the topic you can listen to me talk about it on The Takeaway.
In a provocative Swampland post yesterday, my TIME colleague Michael Scherer argued that the economy is still careening downward:
Forget what the CNBC squawkers tells you. We are not out of the woods yet. Economic measures continue to track remarkably closely with the downturn in 1929, the start of the Great Depression. These charts, by
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That was me on Morning Joe this a.m. It was a vastly more substantive discussion than I expected, thanks mainly to the presence of Dylan Ratigan—although Mike Barnicle, Pat Buchanan and Willie Geist all contributed. I was also on public radio’s Marketplace Tuesday night, and on CBC …
Here’s a piece on the regulatory revamp that I wrote for TIME.com this afternoon.
Update: Joe Nocera makes pretty much the same point.
The WSJ and Washington Post both appear to have gotten their hands on the Administration’s financial regulation “white paper” (the Post even has a pdf of it). I’ll write more on the subject tomorrow, but a couple of thoughts for now.
First, the new Consumer Financial Protection Agency seems like a big deal, and a good idea. It is also, …
Gillian Tett writes in the FT:
For the past five decades, the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute has been teaching the tenets of analysis based on efficient markets to tens of thousands of adherents from banks, fund managers and investment houses that make up the global financial system.
Now, however, the credit crisis has forced
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There are a lot of books out there that make the case that conventional economists are a bunch of narrow-minded, equation-besotted twits. I didn’t write that kind of book in The Myth of the Rational Market because I’m of the opinion that, for all its flaws, the economists’ approach of building mathematical models that imperfectly explain …
I just taped an interview about my book with Kai Ryssdal for Marketplace, which you should be able to hear this some afternoon/evening soon on your local public radio station. I forgot to bring a glass of water with me into the studio and my mouth was for some reason extremely parched, so that explains any ostentatious lip-licking you …
The Treasury Secretary actually uttered the words “be cautious” while discussing his approach to interpreting economic and financial data, but it also seems to be something of a personal credo. In a half-hour long chat this morning with my boss, Rick Stengel, as part of something called Conversations on the Circle (the circle being …
