financial crisis

Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Hearings Start Tomorrow

Calculated Risk — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:15:00 -0500

From Dow Jones: Financial-Crisis Panel Set To Grill Wall Street Executives Wednesday's hearing marks the first of two days of testimony before the financial-crisis commission. ... read more »

The financial crisis diagrammed

kayb — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:32:12 -0400

Having trouble understanding exactly how all those banks and brokerages and various financial entities that crashed last fall are connected? read more »

Pound Sinks As Britain Teeters On Edge Of Bankruptcy

mish — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:05:00 -0500

The British Pound has imploded on fears of bank nationalization and Prime Minister Gordon Brownâ€™s plan to give the Bank of England unprecedented powers to buy securities. read more »

Financial crisis of '08 among the worst ever

mahar — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:00:38 -0500

An interesting look at the current economic crisis from a historic perspective. read more »

How Scientists Helped Cause Our Financial Crisis

mahar — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:25:06 -0500

Garbage in, Garbage out. Models are not reality. Models only help explain reality and therefore help our understanding of a reality that is generally too complex to fully grasp. read more »

Financial Flood Insurance

rich — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:30:47 -0500

Credit default swaps have been a major element in the ongoing financial crisis. That doesn't mean it's necessarily easy to understand just what the problem is with them. read more »

Obama vs McCain

georgeg — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:10:00 -0500

One or the other has some serious fixing to do to the financial system and therefore the economy. Main street does not understand what to do they just feel pain. So far the anesthetic has not worked. read more »