HNN Hot Topics: Financial Meltdown (Jan. 1, 2009 to present)

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• HNN Hot Topics: Financial Meltdown (Oct. 16 to Dec. 31 2008)
  
• HNN Hot Topics: Financial Meltdown (Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, 2008)

Related Links

• Robert E. Wright: The Great Recession of 2008 and the Sordid Historiography of the Great Depression
  
• HNN Hot Topics: The New Deal
  
• What Are the Origins of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae?
  
• What Are the Biggest Financial Scandals in U.S. History?
  
• When Did the Great Depression Receive Its Name? (And Who Named It?)
  
• Jim Powell: It's Time to Explode the Myths About the New Deal
  
• Eric Rauchway: In Defense of the New Deal
  
• New Deal Network (The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (FERI) and the Institute for Learning Technologies (ILT) at Columbia University)
  
• Omar Hossini: Are We Really Printing Money to Finance Our Debts?
  
• How would we know we are in a depression?
• Eduardo Porter: Dangers of the D-Word

Historians' Solutions

• Iwan Morgan: Seeing Red: The Budget Deficit - Past, Present and Future
  
• James Livingston: Why Neither Nationalization Nor a New Tarp Can Fix Our Finances
  
• John Paul Rossi: The Auto Bailout: a Bad Deal
  
• Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello, and Brendan Smith: Global Labor’s Forgotten Plan to Fight the Great Depression
  
• Richard Bensel: The Intended and Unintended Consequences of the Financial Crisis

Commentary & News

• Henry Blodget: In 1930, They Didn't Know It Was"the Great Depression" Yet
  
• David Barber: Skewed Wealth Distribution and the Roots of the Economic Crisis
  
• James Livingston: This Recession is Going To Be a Long One
  
• 60 Minutes: The Bet That Blew Up Wall Street
  
• Hale"Bonddad" Stewart: The Myth of the Black Swan
  
• John F. Wasik: The Cul-de-Sac Syndrome and the Future of Housing
  
• Paul M. Barrett: J.P. Morgan's bankers invented dangerous ways of dispersing risk
  
• Paul Krugman: Stay the Course
  
• John Steele Gordon: The Inflation Temptation
  
• Paul Krugman: Reagan Did It
  
• Niall Ferguson: The Crisis and How to Deal with It
  
• Steven Stoll: Is Economic Growth a Delusion?
  
• John Steele Gordon: Why Government Can't Run a Business
  
• Alan S. Blinder: Let's hope 2010 is not 1936
  
• James Surowiecki: How banks got big
  
• Depression Scares Are Hardly New
  
• Mark Hulbert: 25 Years to Bounce Back? Try 4½
  
• Dermot Quinn: The Wilhelm Roepke solution to our economic woes
  
• Kevin Boyle: Requiem ... Detroit and the Fate of Urban America
  
• Jill Lepore: I.O.U. ... How we used to treat debtors
  
• Paul Krugman: Making Banking Boring
  
• NYT: Financial Fate, in Each Country's Hands
  
• Council on Foreign Relations conference on the New Deal highlighted by NYT
  
• NYT: The Day the S.E.C. Changed the Game
  
• Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff : Don’t Buy the Chirpy Forecasts
  
• Niall Ferguson: This financial crisis does have a Conservative solution
  
• TPM: The Rise And Fall Of AIG's Financial Products Unit
  
• Financial historian: Look to 1792 for economic lessons
  
• Robert J. Samuelson: The Shadow of Depression
  
• Rick Shenkman: The AIG money wasn't even used to cover losses. That's infuriating.
  
• Peter Hartcher: The Truth About Tim Geithner?
  
• NPR: When was the last time Americans owed as much as they do today? Scary answer.
  
• Author of"Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World" interviewed on Meet the Press
  
• NYT: Job losses: Ever Closer to 1982
  
• Tobias Harris: A twenty years' crisis in Japan
  
• Andrew DeWit: Japan’s Twenty Year Response to Economic Crisis
  
• David Leonhardt: The Great Recession likely to result in less inequality
  
• James Quinn: As General Motors Goes, So Goes the Nation
  
• Paul Craig Roberts: A Banana Republic By 2012?:
  
• Richard Bensel: The Intended and Unintended Consequences of the Financial Crisis
  
• Ismael Hossein-zadeh: How the Current Financial Rescue Schemes are Following Hoover's Failed Model
  
• Obama stimulus: More old school fix-ups, less New Deal grandeur
  
• Robert J. Shiller: Can Talk of a Depression Lead to One?
  
• John Steele Gordon: Deficits are nothing new. It's the trend that should worry us.
  
• Robert J. Samuelson: Our Lost Decade
  
• Bonnie Goodman: Political Highlights ... The Senate and Congress agree on an Economic Stimulus Bill
  
• NYT: Ailing Banks May Require More Aid to Keep Solvent
  
• Jerry Z. Muller: Our Epistemological Depression
  
• Ann Pettifor: It's Japan Again, Stupid
  
• Ben Stein: What needs to be done to fix the economy?
  
• Niall Ferguson: Keynes can't help us now
  
• David Huyssen: So Geithner Thinks He Has Problems?
  
• NYT: Japan's Big-Works Stimulus Is Lesson
  
• William Kleinknecht: Happy Birthday Ronald Reagan (Thanks for Ruining America)
  
• Chris Gay: Are we smarter about economics than we were 80 years ago? Yes, but …
  
• Dick Armey: Washington Could Use Less Keynes and More Hayek
  
• Dick Morris: Keynesian fallacy
  
• Carmen M. Reinhart And Kenneth S. Rogoff: The lesson of history is grim: Expect a prolonged slump.
  
• Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian: How Government Prolonged the Depression
  
• Amity Shlaes: FDR Was a Great Leader, But His Economic Plan Isn't One to Follow
  
• Mark Naison: The Squeeze Is On! Why We Need to Explore Communal, As Well As Individual Responses to the Economic Crisis
  
• John B. Judis: The misunderstood John Maynard Keynes
  
• NYT: F.D.R's Example Offers Lessons for Obama
  
• Mark Levey: Leave the New Deal in the History Books
  
• N. Gregory Mankiw: Is Government Spending Too Easy an Answer?
  
• David Brooks: Does fiscal stimulus work?
  
• Thomas Truxes: Sacrificing the Security of the Nation for the Sake of Profit: A Long History
  
• Media Matters: Stimulus plans worked in both the New Deal and Japan
  
• Ron Chernow: Where Is Our Ferdinand Pecora?
  
• Dick Morris: Tyranny of the tax exempt
  
• Jonathan Zimmerman: Obama should agree to a pay cut
  
• Paul Krugman: Keynes was right and Friedman wrong about the Great Depression, then and now
  
• Alan Brinkley: Learning from FDR's mistakes