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Noam Scheiber (
The New Republic
) and Megan McArdle (
Bloomberg View
,
The Up Side of Down
)
The dark irony of moral hazard in Lehman’s collapse
.
07:36
Too interconnected to fail
.
12:34
Why the perfect risk-vs.-regulation balance is a pipe dream
.
16:55
Noam approves of Larry Summers’s big payday
.
22:43
The Fed is an undemocratic colossus
.
35:34
Why we have to save the odious bankers
.
51:04
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Apr 7, 2009
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Philip Swagel’s report on Treasury’s response to the financial crisis (PDF)
WSJ on the Lehman crash
NYT on Larry Summers’s well-paid gig
The oddly accurate stock-picking skills of US senators
Noam’s profile of Larry Summers
Krugman happy with G-2
Malcolm Gladwell on homeless people and the power law
Jeffrey Sachs on the Geithner plan
Noam on Sachs’s piece
NYT runs an AIG resignation letter
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