Author: Damir Marusic
By • Sep 17,2008

Helicopter Ben

FT‘s Alphaville headline: “The Fed’s Run Out of Money“. Relevant quote from the Treasury press release: The Treasury Department announced today the initiation of a temporary Supplementary Financing Program at...

By • Sep 17,2008

Not Helpful

Does Matt Yglesias really want this? Is he serious? In November, there’s going to be an election. And in January, there’ll be a new President. And in the interim, progressive...

By • Sep 17,2008

Back in Time

Megan McArdle has a great post up looking back at what went wrong and what could’ve been done differently to avert the financial crisis we find ourselves in today. Have...

By • Sep 15,2008

All Eyez on FDIC

Everyone’s a-titter today about Lehman going bankrupt and Merrill being bought by Bank of America. These are not minor events to be sure, but in many ways they don’t directly...

By • Sep 13,2008

Bad Idea?

Russia’s stock market has lost 46% of its value since May, with most of the loss coming on the heels of its war in Georgia, sez the New York Times....

By • Sep 13,2008

The Party of Dave

Yglesias: …the notion that it would be okay for high-ranking public officials to have no better understanding of policy issues than does the average person is bizarre. When you get...