Remember the merry-go-round we rode when we were kids? You went round and round and tried to catch the prize, a brass ring. If you didn’t catch the brass ring – you wanted to get down but the merry-go-round kept going. Fannie and Freddie remind me of that merry-go-round as once again they appear to… [Read More]
Unfinished Business and Financial Reforms with Elizabeth Warren
In a presentation Elizabeth Warren gave at the Levy Institute’s 24th annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference, she asked: what are we to make of Dodd-Frank five years later? She asked us to go back to the Wall Street crash of 1929 and how the government responded to it. In response to the crash, our policy… [Read More]
Whistleblowers: Inside the Mortgage Meltdown
We keep trying to figure out just what caused the mortgage meltdown and credit crisis, and one might very well ask, “Didn’t anyone know what was going on? Did anyone ask? Did anyone care?” The truth is – many of us did. And were ignored. When I say here we go again, it’s because it doesn’t seem… [Read More]
