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- Detroit Gets Bailed Out... Kind Of
- IPE at UNC submits: By Kindred Winecoff The bailout is contingent upon the Big 3 fixing themselves in three months: "The new deal threatens only to call back existing loans if the companies fail to demonstrate viability by March 31."Anybody think there is a nonzero probability of this happening? Wanna...
- External links 2008-12-22
- Matt Rognlie Doesn't Understand the Public Option
- IPE at UNC submits: By Kindred Winecoff Neither do I. He says it all in one paragraph: The adverse selection problem here is so overwhelming that there is almost certainly no price at which the government can break even. But this...
- External links 2009-08-20
- Good News About Remittance Flows
- IPE at UNC submits: By Kindred Winecoff Several aspects of the Great Global Decession no sic that should interest students of IPE are the knock-on effects of the global economic slump. These won't get the same headlines as 500 point drops in the Dow or 9% unemployment, but they...
- External links 2009-08-20
- U.S. Takes Profit from Citi Bailout: Not a Bad Deal After All
- IPE at UNC submits: by Kindred Winecoff $11bn profit, as of Monday: The US government, by contrast, is sitting on a paper profit of almost $11bn on its 34 per cent shareholding in Citigroup C, its only direct stake in a large financial institution. by IPE at UNC
- External links 2009-08-25
- Geithner's Plan for Financial Regulation: I'm Skeptical
- IPE at UNC submits: By Kindred Winecoff No, I haven't read all 600-odd pages. Thankfully, Kevin Drum summarizes: by IPE at UNC
- External links 2009-09-08
- Cap-and-Trade Is Not Like the Space Race
- IPE at UNC submits: KPC lays the beatdown on this Thomas Friedman column: Even dumber than the notion that China, the world's biggest polluter, has gone green is the notion that going green is a zero sum competition. Friedman doesn't even try to argue for this point, he simply...
- External links 2009-10-04
- The Key to Regulatory Reform: Flexibility
- IPE at UNC submits: We hear a good bit about how deregulation contributed to the financial crisis. Much less often do we specifically hear which pieces of deregulation are to blame. As expected, Krugman puts it all on Reagan's shoulders, but this is a very selective view of history....
- External links 2009-10-06
- The Dollar Is Now China's Problem
- IPE at UNC submits: J. Paul Getty once said: If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem. by IPE at UNC
- External links 2009-10-13
- Obvious Headline Award of the Day Goes to...
- IPE at UNC submits: By Kindred Winecoff And the award goes to... drumroll... The New York Times, for "Biggest Obstacle to Global Climate Deal May Be How to Pay for It"! by IPE at UNC
- External links 2009-10-15
- Jagdish Bhagwati: Don't Expect Major Transformations to the Economic System
- IPE at UNC submits: By Kindred Winecoff Jagdish Bhagwati is characteristically blunt in a full-bore attack on capitalism's critics in a recent World Affairs piece. He accuses anti-capitalists of having short memories, selectively using examples, and missing "both the point of the issue and the sweep of history". by...
- External links 2009-10-18
- The Price of a Pound of Banking Flesh
- IPE at UNC submits: The United States government hold large equity stakes in some financial firms. It has decided to punish those firms by heavily restricting the pay of the top employees. Proponents say that it is unfair for financial executives to benefit from taxpayer-funded bailouts. Skeptics of this...
- External links 2009-10-25
- U.S. Treasury Cashes In
- IPE at UNC submits: by Alex Parets It was announced yesterday that Goldman Sachs' GS repayment of the $10 billion in TARP funds last month that the government provided to the bank in the midst of the financial crisis last fall, generated a 23 percent annualized return for American...
- External links 2009-07-23
- Goldman Sachs: Hefty Prospects, Compensation on the Rise
- IPE at UNC submits: by Alex Parets Goldman Sachs GS, the investment bank, announced yesterday that its second quarter earnings rose to $3.44 billion, and that it had put aside $11.4 billion for salaries, bonuses and benefits in the quarter, up by nearly half from a year ago. At that...
- External links 2009-07-14
- Should We Be Hoping for More Protectionism?
- IPE at UNC submits: By Kindred Winecoff Emmanuel at IPE Zone says that a trade war between China and the U.S. might not be such a bad thing after all: by IPE at UNC
- External links 2009-01-05
- The (De)Merits of Liberal Illiberalism
- IPE at UNC submits: By Kindred Winecoff Economic infidel Emmanuel (hey, he asked for it) fulfilled his promise to further explain his support for a low-level trade war between the U.S. and China. It's a long post, summoning Adam Smith and Jesus Christ among other luminaries, but I...
- External links 2009-01-07
- Obama's 'Agressive Attitude' Towards China Is Nothing New
- IPE at UNC submits: By Kindred Winecoff Some have taken note of Timothy Geithner's comments during his confirmation hearing suggesting that the Chinese are continuing to devalue the RMB to stimulate exports. The U.S. bond market tanked, supposedly fearing Chinese backlash in the form of a sell-off of U.S....
- External links 2009-01-25
- Should China Continue Propping Up the U.S. Dollar?
- IPE at UNC submits: By Kindred Winecoff Teutonic Knight, a commenter at Seeking Alpha where some IPE at UNC posts are syndicated asks a very good question apropos of this post: by IPE at UNC
- External links 2009-01-27
- Lessons We Can Learn from Chile
- IPE at UNC submits: By Kindred Winecoff What can we learn from Chile? Quite a lot, says Kaufmann of the World Bank: by IPE at UNC
- External links 2009-02-08
- Will Ireland Be Luckier than Iceland?
- IPE at UNC submits: By Kindred Winecoff The Celtic Tiger has been battered badly by the economic downturn, and like Iceland this is largely due to the fact that its banking sector is a very large part of its overall economy. Some companies are running "economic disaster tours" and...
- External links 2009-03-01
- Left Leaning Economists Weigh in on Punitive Taxation
- IPE at UNC submits: by Kindred Winecoff I recently complained that the left-leaning economists in the blogosphere were conspicuous in their absence from the [[AIG]] punitive tax debate. Now we get some comment. by IPE at UNC
- External links 2009-03-23
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