Items by By ROGER LOWENSTEIN
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Broke Town, U.S.A.
Posted: March 3rd, 2011, 7:21pm EST by By ROGER LOWENSTEIN
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Everybody’s suddenly petrified about municipal debt. But the fate of bondholders ought to be the least of our worries.
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The Way We Live Now: Taking Stock
Posted: August 27th, 2010, 9:16am EDT by By ROGER LOWENSTEIN
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Is Wall Street in for a long funk?
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The Way We Live Now: The Next Crisis, Public Pension Funds
Posted: June 25th, 2010, 3:03pm EDT by By ROGER LOWENSTEIN
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For years, localities and states have been skimping on what they owe, leaving them massively short of the money to pay future claims.
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Book Review | 'On the Brink,' by Henry M. Paulson Jr.
Posted: March 19th, 2010, 7:44pm EDT by By ROGER LOWENSTEIN
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Henry M. Paulson’s account of his tumultuous term as George W. Bush’s last Treasury secretary.
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The Way We Live Now: Who Needs Wall Street?
Posted: March 17th, 2010, 5:10pm EDT by By ROGER LOWENSTEIN
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Society profits little from a dizzying casino.
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The Way We Live Now: Walk Away From Your Mortgage!
Posted: January 9th, 2010, 9:24pm EST by By ROGER LOWENSTEIN
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Why should underwater homeowners behave any differently from banks?
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The Way We Live Now: A Seat at the Table
Posted: June 6th, 2009, 11:20pm EDT by By ROGER LOWENSTEIN
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"The stockholder is . . . left as a matter of law with little more than the loose expectation that a group of men, under a nominal duty to run the enterprise for his benefit and that of others like him, will actually observe the obligation." — Adolf Augustus Berle and Gardiner Coit Means in "The Modern Corporation and Private Property," 1932Want to fix what ails corporate America? Democratize the boards.
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The Way We Live Now: No Safety in Numbers
Posted: March 21st, 2009, 12:34am EDT by By ROGER LOWENSTEIN
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Are Treasury bonds a bubble that may someday burst?
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The Way We Live Now: No Safety in Numbers
Posted: March 21st, 2009, 12:34am EDT by By ROGER LOWENSTEIN
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Are Treasury bonds a bubble that may someday burst?
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The Way We Live Now: Go Long
Posted: January 6th, 2009, 4:17pm EST by By ROGER LOWENSTEIN
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Will investing ever make sense again? Yes, if you stop thinking short term.
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What’s Really Wrong With the Price of Oil
Posted: October 17th, 2008, 7:03pm EDT by By ROGER LOWENSTEIN
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Winter is coming. The economy is in crisis. People are fearful. So why should we hope oil prices don’t fall too far?
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From Free Markets to $4 Gas
Posted: September 26th, 2008, 7:03pm EDT by By ROGER LOWENSTEIN
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James K. Galbraith offers his perspective on what supply-siders have reaped.
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The Way We Live Now: Regulator in Chief?
Posted: September 26th, 2008, 2:19pm EDT by By ROGER LOWENSTEIN
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What a president can and can’t do to fix the economy.
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The Way We Live Now: Tariff to Nowhere
Posted: June 13th, 2008, 6:03pm EDT by By ROGER LOWENSTEIN
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Will the Democrats come to their senses on trade?
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The Way We Live Now: Entitled to What?
Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 12:49pm EDT by By ROGER LOWENSTEIN
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To the next president: There is a retirement crisis coming. -
Triple-A Failure
Posted: April 24th, 2008, 4:52pm EDT by By ROGER LOWENSTEIN
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How Moody’s and other credit-rating agencies licensed the abuses that created the housing bubble — and bust.