Wednesday, April 02, 2008

ECON 365: Links on Financial Mess

Below are several links related to yesterday's discussion of the housing/financial crisis:

Background on housing market:

A nice graphical explanation of housing prices through last June.

Here's the change in prices over the past year in several metro areas:



The wikipedia entry on the subprime crisis.

Alan Blinder on 6 sources of the mortgage mess.

The subprime primer
.


The Credit Crisis

David Leonhardt's explanation.

Steve Waldman's explanation
.

Tyler Cowen's discussion.


Government Intervention

Defending the bailout of Wall St.

Bailouts should have consequences.

Mark Thoma's view of the moral hazard/regulation tradeoff.

Description of what intervention needs to achieve.

Alan Blinder explains (and endorses) the Dodd -Frank plan. Robert Samuelson doesn't like it.

The Treasury Plan.

Comments on the treasury plan: One, two, three, four, five, six

Economic advisers for each candidate offer their prescriptions
.

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