Posts Tagged ‘mortgages’

Microblog 2008-10-07

  • All politics aside, Soros’s views on boom-bust cycles deserve attention [Naked Capitalism] #
  • Sebastian Mallaby on misplacing blame for crisis [Washington Post; but see] #
  • Warren Buffett on subject of Fannie-Freddie oversight [MargRev] # Others (h/t @srcleere) say regulators did warn of Fannie/Freddie, but Congress protected them #
  • Back from NYC meetup with Kevin O’Keefe and Matt Homann, learned huge amount from them about using Twitter #
  • Nocera: Waxman hearing was point-scoring political theater [NY Times] #
  • Hank Greenberg on AIG collapse [NY Times DealBook] #

Microblog 2008-10-05

Microblog 2008-10-03

Microblog 2008-09-30

Microblog 2008-09-29

  • Kodachrome photos from New Deal era [via Susan Cartier Liebel] #
  • “Bailout Watch” site [CEI] #
  • Be very alarmed on credit panic [Nouriel Roubini] #
  • Knew there was trouble when the toaster salesman offered a free bank. #
  • Word of the day, “bageling”: when a stock goes to zero, i.e. “O” [ClusterStock] #
  • “The GOP’s Wall Street friends”? Think again [David Frum] (& followups here and here) #

Microblog 2008-09-22

    I’ve renamed these telegraphic roundups “microblog” which seems more approachable than “Twitter”. Better name suggestions are welcome.
  • Many countries had booms in housing finance, why was our meltdown worst? EconBrowser #
  • Hail of dead cats from blogosphere for Paulson bailout plan PoL #
  • Stunningly bad McCain idea: have Andrew Cuomo run SEC Mickey Kaus #
  • Business historian John Steele Gordon on origins of mortgage meltdown NYT Freakonomics guest post #
  • Going after lawyers in mortgage mess? New York Law Journal #
  • Obama to pick centrists for high court? Not if advisers Minow and Tribe can help it Kerr @ Volokh #