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2008 Financial Crisis

Things haven’t changed all that much…

Video:

Francine Prose on Bernie Madoff’s role in Little Dorrit

How the dominoes fell at AIG

Oliver Hart and Luigi Zingales propose dual capital layers for Wall Street

‘Hank Paulson sounds tough. But on the substance that matters he was weak’

‘…thinking of today’s economic and financial crisis, isn’t it the winners who have gotten us into this mess?’

Documentary claims hippies deliberately engineered the financial crisis

‘…it’s easy to see why financial insiders think it doesn’t make much difference who wins the next UK election’

LBO tackles Fed paranoids blind to the inseparability of capitalism and finance

(Web of Debt)

Book excerpt:

‘The Big Short’ by Michael Burry

Video:

Joseph Stiglitz talks about ‘Freefall’ at The Commonwealth Club

Matt Taibii exposes Wall Street’s brazen bailout hustle

‘…nothing, absolutely nothing has happened in terms of serious regulation’

NLR at 50: Susan Watkins sketches a future for the journal as it enters its quinquagenary year

Rapidly evaporating self-satisfied myths of a Willensnation

‘…one imagines unemployed men with time on their hands playing Fallout 3 and Overlord II while eating mac and cheese. Are those same men lacing up their running shoes in preparation for Armageddon?’

‘The managers are clearly running the banks in their own interest…’

Economism in crisis

Ants in Iceland’s House of Ideas