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Financial Crisis and Recession
Steven Kaplan (Chicago GSB) "The Financial Crisis and Bailout" (Oct 2008)
Simon Johnson "Economic Recovery and the Coming Financial Crisis" (Sept 2009)
Bernanke on the "Too Big to Fail" Problem
"Bernake on Banking" (Boone and Johnson NYT)
"Too Big To Fail, Too Big To Exist Act" (Introduced by B. Sanders I-VT)
Bell, Brooks and Moore "The Credit Crunch of 1294" (from voxeu)
Recipe for Disaster: The Formula that Killed Wall Street (Felix Simon - Wired Magazine)
"My Manhattan Project: How I Helped Build the Bomb that Blew Up Wall Street"
(Michael Osinski - NY Magazine)
Good Discussion of structured finance (CDOs) and its risks: Coval, Jurek and Stafford:
"The Economics of Structured Finance"
"Seduced by a Model" (Simon Johnson and James Kwak - NYT)
WSJ Interactive Bank Stress Test Results
The official government web site: financialstability.gov
Minneapolis Fed: Compare current and past recessions
NYT: How the government dealt with past recessions
 
 
 
 
 
 
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