Archive for April 20th, 2008

Project: Mapping the Financial Governance

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

When academics, analysts and scholars analyze the causes and remedies for the current credit crisis, most of them analyze macro-economic trends such as exchange rate movements, or micro-economic changes such as Basel II. How the global financial architecture evolved and how that influences the probability of crisis is very rarely discussed. ...

Fed and Housing Bubble

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

Below is a list of articles and quotes that discuss whether the Federal Reserve Bank was responsible for the housing bubble and the subsequent subprime crisis: Eric Englund writes in April 22nd 2006 the article "The Federal Reserve and Housing: A Cluster of Errors?" warning about the link between interest rates ...