Financial Crisis News
Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
Economics Essays: Understanding Financial Crisis
Readers Question. I have recently been trying to better understand the financial crisis and it has been very useful, however I am curious to your own opinions, as the articles are very neutral. Where possible, I try to avoid preconceived ideology / expectations.
on macroeconomics Welcome. If you have yet to register on FT.com you will be asked to do so before you begin to read FT blogs. However, our posts remain free. A blog on macroeconomics, economic policymaking and the financial markets.
Great Recession may cost US economy $5,900 billions | Gavyn Davies | Insight into macroeconomics and the financial markets from the Financial Times
Could this time have been different?
(KEVIN LAMARQUE - REUTERS) Christina Romer had traveled to Chicago to perform an unpleasant task: she needed to scare her new boss. David Axelrod, Barack Obama’s top political adviser, had been very clear about that. He thought the president-elect needed to know exactly what he would be walking into when he took the oath of office in January. But it fell to Romer to deliver the bad news. So Romer, a preternaturally cheerful economist whose expertise on the Great Depression made her an obvious choice to head the Council of Economic Advisers, gathered her tables and her charts and, on a snowy day in mid-December, sat down to explain to the next President of the United States of America exactly what sort of mess he was inheriting.