Friday, April 30, 2010

Russell Roberts on the housing bubble and financial crisis

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Here's a new paper on the housing bubble by GMU economics professor Russell Roberts. Here's a summary of the paper by GMU economi...
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

David Brooks on financial regulation

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From David Brooks via Greg Mankiw : Between 1997 and 2006, consumers, lenders and builders created a housing bubble, and pretty much the e...
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Monday, April 26, 2010

In search of fairy tale regulators

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Arnold Kling echoes my skepticism of regulation: Kevin Drum writes, From a systemic point of view, the real issue is that predatory lendin...
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Friday, April 23, 2010

Home sales leap as tax credit nears expiration

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Offer potential home buyers other people's money, and they will use it: New-home sales rose 26.9% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate ...
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Is now a good time to buy a home?

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No . Maybe . One correction for David Leonhardt. He writes: Markets often overshoot, on both the upside and downside. Actually, financial...
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

A libertarian view of financial regulation

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In The Wall Street Journal , Gerald P. O'Driscoll writes: Public choice theory has identified the root causes of regulatory failure as ...
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A big flaw in the proposed financial reform bills

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Mark Thoma writes: When I was asked what was missing from the proposed financial reform legislation, I should have mentioned the lack of ef...
Friday, April 16, 2010

Regulatory capture

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Why depending on human regulators is doomed to fail, continued...
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Yes, Virginia, there is a housing bubble

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...in China. And on Wednesday, the government said housing prices had risen 11.7 percent in March alone, the fastest rise ever recorded.
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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Leading indicators point to another housing downturn

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Robert Shiller makes the case for another downturn in housing , including the fact that leading indicators are negative: Today, we need to ...
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