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- If Government Could Envision the Benefits of a World With Less Cars
- Ryan Avent submits: Last week, I left my Washington home, walked to the nearby Metro station, rode a train downtown, walked to the National Press Club, and settled in to hear Steven Rattner, former head of the Obama administration's auto task force, declare that "no one has yet invented...
- External links 2009-10-28
- Automakers: Forget America, Think China and India
- Ryan Avent submits: There is no denying that America constitutes a massive market for vehicles. Of the 650 million or so cars and trucks registered around the world, over a third of them can be found in the garages of American households. The need to slowly replace that fleet,...
- External links 2009-07-30
- ...Though Pitchforks May Be Useful on Compensation
- Ryan Avent submits: On the subject of pitchforks, I will offer one counterpoint, courtesy of this week's print edition: Lehman Brothers made losses in the two quarters before it collapsed yet continued to accrue a compensation pot not far off the levels of 2007. Shareholder returns over the entire...
- External links 2009-07-18
- CDS Legislation: Proof That Lawmakers Shouldn't Try Regulating
- Ryan Avent submits: Opinions differ on the culpability of credit default swaps in the recent financial crisis, but most market observers agree that some rules ought to change to ensure that CDS don't cause major problems in the future. A central clearinghouse for CDS contracts is one good idea,...
- External links 2009-07-16
- CIT: Too Big to Not Fail?
- Ryan Avent submits: Markets still digesting the good earnings news out of Goldman Sachs GS and JP Morgan JPM are now pondering the potential effect of a CIT CIT bankruptcy. The commercial lender has been on the ropes for days now and furiously negotiating with the federal government over...
- External links 2009-07-16
- Google Had Better Tread Carefully in Bid to Boost Market Position
- Ryan Avent submits: Microsoft MSFT has seen the enemy, and it increasingly looks like Microsoft. Google GOOG has announced its intention to begin attacking Microsoft at its very heart, by offering a competing operating system that will include the Google web browser Chrome. Google’s intention is clear. It plans...
- External links 2009-07-09
- Is Regulating Oil Speculation a Good Idea?
- Ryan Avent submits: Oil prices have behaved erratically over the past two years, you may have noticed. After increasing steadily for most of the decade, prices rose dramatically in 2007, and then really dramatically in 2008. The 2008 spike could have been due to a speculative bubble, or it...
- External links 2009-07-09
- Increasingly, Legislators Coming Around About Rail Transport Subsidies
- Ryan Avent submits: Two things were clear at Tuesday morning's hearing of the Senate Banking Committee concerning green investments in public transportation. First, transportation experts and leading legislators are very much in agreement on how transportation spending should change. And second, Randal O'Toole's days as anything other than an...
- External links 2009-07-08
- Banks Biting the Hand That Saved Them?
- Ryan Avent submits: In 1993, as the Clinton administration attempted to pass a major piece of health insurance reform legislation, insurance industry groups ran a series of devastating advertisements featuring the characters Harry and Louise, who warned Americans of all the health care choices the government would soon be...
- External links 2009-07-08
- Some Upside Surprises
- Ryan Avent submits: Sometimes, the numbers come in better than expected. If you're Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s GS second- quarter profit exceeded analysts’ estimates as record trading and stock underwriting led the company to its highest quarterly profit. by Ryan Avent
- External links 2009-07-14
- More on the Scarcity of Land Debate
- Ryan Avent submits: WAS the housing bubble fueled by the belief that the world was running out of land? Almost certainly not; the housing bubble was fueled be speculative mania, and land scarcity was one of many explanations grafted on to the phenomenon by those looking to make or...
- External links 2009-06-19
- On Bailouts, Lobbying and a Strong Chief Executive
- Ryan Avent submits: GREG MANKIW recently linked to this Boston Globe story, which noted: General Motors Corp. will delay the closing of a Norton parts distribution center it planned to shutter by the end of the year, according to US Representative Barney Frank. The extension will temporarily preserve about...
- External links 2009-06-13
- China: Conventional Wisdom About Its Role in Global Imbalance Is Wrong
- Ryan Avent submits: If you think you understand the dynamics underlying global imbalances and the role China plays in generating them, have a good look at this piece, from this week's print edition. It challenges many of the ideas that pass for conventional wisdom on the subject. For instance,...
- External links 2009-07-31
- Citigroup Recapitalization Program: Cash for Clunkers
- Ryan Avent submits: Steven Levitt doesn't like the numbers he's seeing in reported applications for Cash for Clunkers vouchers: The “Cash for Clunkers” program gives roughly a $4,000 subsidy when a person trades in a clunker for a new car that gets better gas mileage. by Ryan Avent
- External links 2009-08-04
- What's Next for Fannie and Freddie?
- Ryan Avent submits: The Washington Post reported yesterday morning on discussions within the American government over the fate of quasi-governmental mortgage firms Fannie Mae FNM and Freddie Mac FRE. Readers may recall that the two companies were placed in government conservatorship late last summer after doubts about the financial...
- External links 2009-08-07
- What Disruptive Technology Can Teach Us About the Economy
- Ryan Avent submits: I’ve been enjoying Tim Lee’s posts discussing the introduction and impact of a disruptive technology. Let me quote some a lot of what he’s been writing: The key characteristic of a disruptive technology is that at its introduction, it is markedly inferior to the...
- External links 2009-09-01
- The Pros and Cons for Obama in Reappointing Bernanke
- Ryan Avent submits: Why do presidents tend to appoint, or re-appoint, Federal Reserve chairmen from the opposite party? Brad DeLong writes: The reason American presidents are so willing to reappoint Fed chairmen from the opposite party is closely linked to one of the things a president seeks: The confidence...
- External links 2009-08-31
- Recession Is Easing- Check Your Underwear
- Ryan Avent submits: Readers, this week tends to be one of the slowest of the year. Half of the working world—including policymakers—is on vacation, and those that aren't are counting down the hours to the last good weekend of summer (a three-day weekend in America). It's difficult to find...
- External links 2009-08-31
- Does the World Have a Peak Oil Problem?
- Ryan Avent submits: I suggested Monday that recent changes in oil prices may indicate that supply is increasingly tight, and that oil prices will therefore act as a check on economic growth for the near future. This isn't exactly an embrace of the "peak oil" world view, but it's...
- External links 2009-08-26
- America, Savvy Investor
- Ryan Avent submits: There is still plenty of time for America's banking strategy to fail miserably—a new round of economic contraction could lead to new troubles for large banks, or inadequate regulatory reform may allow moral hazard plays to sow the seeds of a future crisis—but for now it...
- External links 2009-08-24
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