Keyword(s): depression
06/02/12
Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty, by Murray N. Rothbard
The Conservative has long been marked, whether he knows it or not, by long-run pessimism: by the belief that the long-run trend, and therefore Time itself, is against him, and hence th… more »
05/03/12
07:25:42 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com 
, 180 words 
Categories: Investment, Central Banks/Government
Raghuram Rajan, Rodney Ramcharan, The Anatomy of a Credit Crisis: The Boom and Bust in Farm Land Prices in the United States in the 1920s, NBER Working Paper No. 18027, April 2012
Abstract:
"Does credit availability exacerbate asset price inflatio… more »
01/15/12
Like all human creations, the gold standard is not free from shortcomings; but in the existing circumstances there is no other way of emancipating the monetary system from the changing influences ofparty politics and government interference, either in th… more »
12/30/11
Interesting 1982 article of Paul M. Sweezy on business cycles and the stagnation of that time. Monthly Review: Why Stagnation? Paul M. Sweezy, 1982Sweezys thoughts have become relevant again. answers.com has extracts from Gale Encyclopedia on… more »
10/14/11
Comstockfunds: More Important than Historical Statistics--Private Debt Decline; Accumulations and Liquidations of Debt, Oct. 13, 2011..."The Government Debt rose over $5.5 trillion since 2008, but the Private Debt declined by close to $5 trillion d… more »
09/30/11
05:43:00 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 101 words
Categories: Economics Europe, Economics Global
George Soros urges Euro Leaders to take bold steps. In a column on "Project Syndicate" he proposes three steps:1) Governments of the Euro Zone must a agree in principle on a treaty creating a common treasury2) In parallel, banks must be put u… more »
09/26/11
Slate: How To Prevent a Depression;
Eight drastic policy measures necessary to prevent global economic collapse. None of them will be popular, by Nouriel Roubini, Sept. 19, 2011
Keywords: Global Economy, Recession more »
09/05/11
10:44:23 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 96 words
Categories: Economics United States, Economics Europe
Voxeu: Does fiscal policy matter? Is there a better way to reduce unemployment? by Roger E. A. Farmera and Dmitry Plotnikov (both UCLA), Sept. 5, 2011
Can government spending help the economy recover from a recession by boosting job creation and lower… more »
08/20/11
09:01:21 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com, 117 words
Categories: Economics United States, Economics Europe
Telegraph: Bond markets signal 'Japanese' slump for US and Europe, August 18, 2011
The global credit markets are braced for deflation and perhaps depression.
Panic flight to safety has pushed the yield on 10-year US Treasuries below 2pc for the fir… more »
08/12/11
11:20:19 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 19 words
Categories: Investment, Banks/Investment Banks
Source: WSJ; click on picture to get to original article
Keywords: Banks, Bank Stock Development, Great Depression, Financial Crisis more »
08/06/11
04:00:56 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 41 words
Categories: Economics United States, Economics Global
Kennneth Rogoff suggests that dumping the "Great Recession" label immediately and replace it with "Great Contraction" could be a first step to do better:
Project Syndicate: The Second Great Contraction, by Kenneth Rogoff, August 2, 2011
Keywords: U… more »
07/23/11
07:39:43 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com, 96 words
Categories: Economics United States, Economics Global
Vernon Smith is a pioneer, discovering a whole new way to study economics and winning a Nobel Prize for doing so.
Smith sat down with Reason.tv's Nick Gillespie to discuss a variety of topics, including growing up in Kansas during the Great Depression… more »
06/05/11
Barry Ritholtz had such a great column in the June 5, 2011 Washington PostThe Washington Post: After a recession, the least rational rise (temporarily) to prominence. Ignore them, June 5, 2011that we redistribute here the full text. We did not ha… more »
04/20/11
Project Syndicate: How Risky is the Global Economy? by Mohamed A. El-Erian (Pimco), April 18, 2011
Three years after the global financial crisis, the global economy remains a confusing place – and for good reasons.
Should we draw comfort from gradu… more »
04/12/11
A Decade of Debt,
Carmen Reinhart (Peterson Institutefor International Economics) and Kenneth Rogoff (Harvard University), Discussion Paper No. 8310, Centre for Economic Policy Research, April 2011
"This paper presents evidence that public debts in… more »
12/27/10
06:54:34 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 502 words
Categories: Analysts, Investment, Academic
When investing in a portfolio in stocks one has to take into account that we live in a period where the probability of economic shocks is substantial. Investors with a long-term orientation argue that stock have a superior long-term return as compared to… more »
12/19/10
08:44:59 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 731 words
Categories: Analysts, Investment, Central Banks/Government, Banks/Investment Banks, Fraud, Restructuring, Regulation
When we (a group of entrepreneurs) started this website, www.marketobservation.com, in early 2007, hardly anybody was aware of the awakening of the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression. As entrepreneurs we know that it normally takes enorm… more »
11/23/10
Here is a good piece of John H. Makin about quantitative easing: AEI: Bernanke Battles U.S. Deflation Threat, by John H. Makin, Nov. 2010. He explains that QE should just be one element of a set of measures:"A second phase of quantitative eas… more »
11/19/10
Paul Krugman is definitely an opponent to the market observers which heavily criticize the Fed's quantitative easing policy. Even though our website gives more space to people who are not much in favor of interventionist policies we feel it is important… more »
11/04/10
Guardian: US Federal Reserve launches new round of quantitative easing; US Fed pumps in another $600bn to prop up ailing economy, November 3, 2010
America's central bank announced that it would pump an additional $600bn (£372bn) into the ailing US e… more »
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