US Financial Crisis Continues

The Wall Street Journal, Opinion, "Pandemics and Depresssions," May 5, 2009.

The Browser, "Robert Barro on Lessons of the Great Depression," May 3, 2009.

CNBC, Fast Money, "History Reveals Odds of Recesion Snowballing Into Depression," March 5, 2009. (video)

The Wall Street Journal, Opinion, "What are the Odds of a Depression?," March 4, 2009.

The Atlantic, Business, "An interview with Robert Barro," February 5, 2009.

The Wall Street Journal, Opinion, "Government Spending Is No Free Lunch," January 22, 2009.

Martin Feldstein,
George F. Baker Professor of Economics

Denver Post, Opinion, "Cap and Trade: It's an economic catastrophe," June 21, 2009.

Taipei Times, Editorials, "Improvements in the Economy are not sustainable," June 1, 2009.

The Washington Post, Columnts, "Cap-and-Trade: All Cost No Benefit," June 1, 2009.

The Post Chronicle, Business News, "U.S. Recovery May Come in 2010," May 26, 2009.

The Wall Street Journal, Opinion, "Tax Increases Could Kill the Recovery," May 14, 2009.

The Star, Business, "Deflation doldrums?," May 2, 2009.

Financial Times, Opinion, "Inflation is looming on America's horizon," April 19, 2009.

Taipei Times, Editorials, "Fall in US household wealth likely to spur a long recession," March 3, 2009.

The Washington Post, Opinion, "An $800 billion mistake," January 29, 2009.

National Public Radio, On Point with Tom Ashbrook, "Feldstein on Our Economic Fix," January 26, 2009.

Reuters, "Ex-NBER Feldsein: Recesion may not end in 2009," January 4, 2009.

CNBC, "Economy May Be Worse A Year From Now: Feldstein," January 2, 2009.

The Wall Street Journal, Opinion, "Defense Spending Would Be Great Stimulus," December 23, 2008.

Stabroek News, "Will the euro survive the current crisis?," November 26, 2008. (Printer friendly version)

Salt Lake Tribune, "The stimulus plan we need, when we need it," November 3, 2008.

The Wall Street Journal, Opinion, "The Stimulus Plan We Need Now," October 30, 2008.

National Public Television, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, "World Leaders Pledge Aid to Curb Financial Turmoil," Ocotber 13, 2008. (video) (text version)

Bloomberg,"Feldstein says U.S. Recession to Be Longer Than Usual," October 8, 2008. (video)

The Wall Street Journal, "The Problem Is Still Falling House Prices," October 4, 2008.

Ha'aretz, "Where the spiral might lead," October 3, 2008. (Printer friendly version)

Project Syndicate, "America's Problems Run Deeper than Wall Street."

The New York Times, Economix, "A Failure of Regulation, Not Capitalism," June 9, 2009.

The Boston Globe, Opinion,"The problem with bailouts," June 5, 2009.

The Boston Globe, Opinion,"Building walls with US trading partners," March 6, 2009.

The New York Times, Economix, "The Big Three? Try the Small Many," March 3, 2009.

The New York Times, Economix, "Killing (or Maiming) a Sacred Cow: Home Mortgage Deductions," February 24, 2009.

The New York Times, Economix,"If You Got Money, It's Time to Spend Some," February 17, 2009.

The New York Times, Economix, "Subsidizing Home Buying: Could Be Worse," February 10, 2009.

Boston Globe, Opinion, "Infastructure needs bill of its own," February 6, 2009.

The Boston Globe, Opinion, "Who should get the federal stimulus funds," January 5, 2009.

Glaeser, Edward L. and Joseph Gyourko, The New York Times, Economix, "Two Ways to Revamp U.S. Housing Policy," December 16, 2008.

The Boston Globe, Opinion, "New lending deals won't bring back 2006," December 5, 2008.

The New York Times, Economix, "First Bankruptcy, and Then a Possible Bailout," November 19, 2008.

The Boston Globe, Ideas, "This old house policy," November 2, 2008.

Glaeser, Edward L. and Gyourko, Joseph (2008) "The Case against Housing Price Supports," The Economists' Voice: Vol. 5 : Iss. 6, Article 3.

The New York Times, Economix, "Beter, Not Just More, Regulation," October 28, 2008.

The New York Times, Economix, "Why We Should Let Housing Prices Keep Falling," October 7, 2008.

The New York Times, Economix, "Housing Prices in the Three Americas," September 30, 2008.

The New York Times, Economix, "Where Are Home Prices Headed? (Or: What Are Thoes "Bad" Mortgages Treasury Wants to By Actually Worth?)," September 23, 2008.

NPR- WBUR, On Point with Tom Ashbrook, "The Wealth Gap After the Crash," March 9, 2009.(Audio file)

WBUR, Here and Now, "Unemployment Figures," December 30, 2008. (Audio file)

Wall Street Journal, Opinion, "Economists Have Abandoned Principle," December 3, 2008.

NECN, "What if the Senate does not pass the plan?," October 2, 2008. (Video)

France 24, "How to Spend $700 billion," October 1, 2008.

NECN, "Economists urge lawmakers to slow down," September 26, 2008. (Video)

The Wall Street Journal, Real Time Economics, "Productivity Paradox Result of Freaked Out Economy," February 5, 2009. (quoted in article)

NECN, "Summing up the economic year of 2008," December 31, 2008. (quoted in story)

Newsweek, "All that Money You've Lost--Where did it go?," October 11, 2008.
(Printer friendly version)

NPR- WBUR, On Point with Tom Ashbrook, "The Wealth Gap After the Crash," March 9, 2009.(Audio file)

WBUR, Here and Now, "Unemployment Figures," December 30, 2008. (Audio file)

David Laibson,
Harvard College Professor, Robert I. Goldman Professor of Economics

The New York Times, Economic View, "That Freshman Course Won't Quite Be the Same," May 23, 2009.

The New York Times, Economic View,"It May Be Time for the Fed to Go Negative," April 18, 2009.

The Washington Post, Opinion, "Soaking the Rich?," March 8, 2009. (One of the opinions)

The New York Times, Economic View, "It's No Time for Protectionism," February 7, 2009.

The New York Times, Opinion, "Questions for Mr. Geithner," January 20, 2009. (Asked one of the questions)

National Public Radio, Fresh Air from WHYY, "A Critical View Of Increased Government Spending," January 13, 2009.

The New York Times, Economic View, "Is Government Spending Too Easy an Answer?," January 10, 2009.

The New York Times, Economic View,"What Would Keynes Have Done?," November 28, 2008.

The New York Times, Economic View, "But Have We Learned Enough?," October 25, 2008.

Greg Mankiw's Blog: Random Observations for Students of Economics

Reason.tv, "Jeffrey Miron on The Financial Crisis and The Case For Doing Nothing," April 27, 2009 (podcast)

Harvard International Review (Winter 2009),  "Path to Recovery," Vol. 30 (4).

CNN, "Commentary: Bailing out homeowners is a mistake," March 2, 2009.

WBZ Channel 38 News, "Stimulus Plan Will Do More Harm Than Good," February 16, 2009. (Video link of featured story)

The New York Times, Opinion: Room for Debate, "Geithner's Multitrillion Dollar Bailout: The Receivership Option," February 10, 2009.

The Reason.com, "Economic Change We Can Believe In," February 6, 2009.

CNN, "Cut taxes, don't raise spending," December 30, 2008.

CNN, "Why this bailout is as bad as the last one," October 14, 2008.

Kenneth Rogoff,
Thomas D. Cabott Professor of Public Policy

Boston Globe, Business, "Stop the financial bleeding," May 19, 2009.

ABC, Good Morning America, Bank Profits and the Recovery, April 18, 2009

Newsweek, Don't Buy the Chirpy Forecasts (pdf), from issue dated March 30, 2009

Public Radio International, The World, Geithner Plan for Financial Overhaul (podcast), March 26, 2009 

CBS Evening News, The True Costs of Recovery, March 19, 2009

Public Radio International, The World, More Anger Directed at AIG (podcast), March 17, 2009

National Public Radio, On Point, G-20 to the Rescue (podcast), March 16, 2009

Project Syndicate, "What is the Deficit Endgame," March 2009.

National Public Radio, All Things Considered, Examinig if Banks Are Too Big to Fail, March 9, 2009

BBC Radio, Newshour (podcast), Evaluating the Stimulus and Bank Bailout Plans, February 11, 2009

BBC, HARDTalk, Nationalization, Trade Protectionism and the Global Financial Crisis, February 9, 2009

Wall Street Journal, Op Ed, What Other Financial Crises Tell Us (pdf) (with Carmen Reinhart), February 3 2009

New York Times Blogs, Davos World Economic Forum, The Exuberance of India, The Global Credit Drought, Cautiously Pessimistic, January 2009

National Public Television, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Banking Sector, Bailout Reform, May Top Obama Agenda (podcast), January 21, 2009

National Public Radio, Planet Money, Are Any Countries Benefitting from the Financial Crisis? (podcast), January 16, 2009

National Public Radio, Morning Edition, Money Mystery: Who's Holding U.S. Currency?, January 9, 2009

Bloomberg News, Night Talk with Mike Schneider, World May Be in Worse Recession since WWII, January 8, 2009

The Economist, Drastic Times (Economics Focus), January 8, 2009 pdf

The Daily Times, "Another roller coaster ride for exchange rates in '09?," December 24, 2008.

Bennet, Drake, Boston Globe, Paradigm Lost, December 21, 2008. (Quoted in article)

BBC Radio, Newshour, Quantitative Easing, Deflation and the Financial Crisis, podcast, December 16, 2008

CNBC News, Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo, Benefits of Inflation, December 15, 2008

Project Syndicate, Inflation Is Now the Lesser Evil, December 2008

CNN, Memo to the President, 11/26/08

National Public Television, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Government Widens Support for Home Loans, Credit, podcast, November 25, 2008

MSNBC, Nightly News with Brian Williams, Sudden Fall of Citigroup, November 24, 2008.

National Public Radio, All Things Considered, Addressing the Threat of Deflation, November 20, 2008

Financial Times, Regulation Should Be International, November 18, 2008

BBC, PRI and WGBH, The World, Impact of the G20 Summit, November 17, 2008

BBC World News, Today, G-20 Meet to Discuss Crisis, November 14, 2008

American Public Media, Marketplace, 1% Might Not Be the Final Cut, October 29, 2008

National Public Radio, All Things Considered, "Is the Bank Bailout a Nationalization?," October 14, 2008

BBC Radio World Service, Newshour, "The IMF and Bank Bailout," October 10, 2008

National Public Radio, All Things Considered, "Economists Discuss Post-Bailout Economy," October 3, 2008

US News and World Report, "America's Credit Catastrophe," October 3, 2008.

Newsweek, "The Making of America 2.0," October 2, 2008. (Printer friendly version)

National Public Television, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, " Assessing the Bailout" (with Ray Suarez), October 2, 2008. (Video) (Text version)

Business Day, "Significant reasons to doubt wisdom of bailout," September 30, 2008.

National Public Radio, The Diane Rehm Show,"U.S. Financial Crisis and the Global Economy," September 25, 2008.

National Public Radio, Morning Edition, "U.S. Tarnished by Financial Meltdown," September 24, 2008

The Times, Business, "Leading economist Kenneth Rogoff says bank rescue opens door for other US industries," September 22, 2008.

Mihm, Stephen, The New York Times, Magazine, "Capital Insurance," December 12, 2008. Quotes Professor Jeremy Stein.

The New York Times, Opinion, "This Bailout Doesn't Pay Dividends," October 20, 2008.

WNYC Radio, The Brian Lehrer Show, "Going Global," October 10, 2008.

WBZ News Radio, "Making the case for patience on the bailout."

Bloomberg, "Harvard's Stein Says Fed Shares Blame for Credit Crisis," September 29, 2008. (Video)

The New York Times, Opinion, "The $700 Billion Question," September 22, 2008.

Glen Weyl,
junior fellow in the Harvard Society
of Fellows at Harvard University and
post-doctoral fellow in Harvard's Department
of Economics

The Huffington Post, "Put the Bankers Back to Work," February 5, 2009.

The Boston Globe, Opinion, "Financial guidance from FDA," December 3, 2008.