Introductory Statement by Chairman Carl Levin – From Senate Committee hearings. The credit rating agencies are; Moody’s, Standard and Poors, and Fitch….QUOTE: “Concluding a two-year bipartisan investigation, Senator Carl Levin, D-Mich., and Senator Tom Coburn MD, R-Okla., Chairman and Ranking Republican on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, today released a 635-page final report (PDF, 6MB) on their inquiry into key causes of the financial crisis. The report catalogs conflicts of interest, heedless risk-taking and failures of federal oversight that helped push the country into the deepest recession since the Great Depression.” levin.senate.gov
This video is an informative look at the factors that are causing our current financial and economic crisis. It discusses policy changes 13 years ago that unleashed the sub-prime mortgage-backed securities market, which accelerated prices erratically, inviting speculation and loose lending practices which were both condoned and encouraged by existing regulation and carried out by risk-blind executives and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Aside from ripping the corporate goons in the media, please be respectful in your comments. Thanks. Obama Bombshell Redistribution of Wealth Audio Uncovered
A rap about what led to the current state of the economy, why the financial crisis is happening, and what the Bail Out Plan means for you and me. Written and Performed by Michael Bird Directed and Edited by Andrew Grissom
Financial Markets (ECON 252) Professor Shiller provides a description of the course, Financial Markets, including administrative details and the topics to be discussed in each lecture. He briefly discusses the importance of studying finance and each key topic. Lecture topics will include: behavioral finance, financial technology, financial instruments, commercial banking, investment banking, financial markets and institutions, real estate, regulation, monetary policy, and democratization of finance. Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: open.yale.edu This course was recorded in Spring 2008.
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Financial Markets (ECON 252) In the second of his two lectures in honor of Arthur Okun, Professor Summers points out that real interest rates have been very low in the current subprime crisis. This indicates that the shock to the economy was more a financial breakdown shock than a disinflation shock. But financial breakdown shocks are not necessarily very harmful to the economy, so long as financial intermediation capital is not destroyed. In a financial crisis like the present one …
