Stiglitz

Stiglitz Calls Bad Bank Idea “Cash For Trash”

BLOOMBERG Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) — Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz said any decision by President Barack Obama to establish a so-called bad bank to rid financial companies of toxic assets risks swelling the national debt. Obama’s administration is moving closer to buying the illiquid assets currently clogging bank’s balance sheets and preventing them from boosting lending, […]

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Stiglitz on The Great American Economy [must read]

VANITY FAIR Reversal of Fortune Describing how ideology, special-interest pressure, populist politics, and sheer incompetence have left the U.S. economy on life support, the author puts forth a clear, commonsense plan to reverse the Bush-era follies and regain America’s economic sanity. by Joseph E. Stiglitz November 2008 When the American economy enters a downturn, you […]

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