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The $4.5 Billion Dollar Bank Run
Nov 07 201111:20 am EDT -
The Times' Rorshach Geithner Story
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Sinking Animal Spirits
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Counter-cyclical Urban Policy
Apr 26 200910:00 am EDT -
Be Your Own Counterfeiter
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Being Tim Geithner
Apr 25 200912:37 pm EDT -
Notes From a Press Conference Naif
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What Good is the News?
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Stressful Enough
Apr 24 20092:29 pm EDT -
Not Regretting the Pound
Apr 24 20091:09 pm EDT
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Extra Credit, Tuesday Edition
Alphabet Soup and the Subprime Crisis: Did SWFs kill the M-LEC?
The NYT Invents "Basic Economics" To Hide Upward Redistribution
Mud-Luscious: Balloons for UberNerds
Now, Even Borrowers With Good Credit Pose Risks: The risk that borrowers with good credit will walk away from their homes. The word "non-recourse" does not appear. We need much more information on the number of non-recourse mortgages written in the past couple of years.
"These are not normal times": Hank Paulson interviewed by the LA Times, clarifying his stance on the GSEs buying jumbo mortgages:
I am not an advocate of, on a permanent basis, having Fannie and Freddie have their loan limit raised and getting into the jumbo area. I think it involves difficult public policy questions and flies in the face of their affordable housing mission... I do believe it makes sense now -- these are not normal times -- to raise the limit for a limited time, to let them get involved with jumbo loans for securitization purposes.. □
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