economic crisis Archive

  • A good friend Thomas just posted his analysis of the financial situation, here, on his “View From The Bottom”.  One of his gifts is explaining complicated stuff in plain english,...

    US Debt musings from an int’l economics kid, turned scrappy tech entrepreneur

    A good friend Thomas just posted his analysis of the financial situation, here, on his “View From The Bottom”.  One of his gifts is explaining complicated stuff in plain english,...

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  • Portfolio.com put together a tremendous insider story about the underpinnings of the economic mess we’re in:  excessive leverage on securities made of rolled up subprime mortgages, by speculators who bought...

    Why’d The Economy Crash, Our Savings Plunge, and the Huge Investment Banks Disappear?

    Portfolio.com put together a tremendous insider story about the underpinnings of the economic mess we’re in:  excessive leverage on securities made of rolled up subprime mortgages, by speculators who bought...

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