Finance

Back in 2008, a critical opportunity was missed when the burden of post-crisis adjustment was tilted heavily in favor of creditors relative to debtors. The result was not only prolonged stagnation, but also the Republican Party’s embrace of demagogic populism and the election of Donald Trump.

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. …This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not before.” This YSI Webinar and Reading Group aims to contribute to the historicization of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and its repercussions.

This paper concerns itself with the joint effect of implicit subsidies that are built into the US housing-finance system and financial safety net.

Ten years after Lehman Brothers’ collapse, the Wall Street casino is running amok

Both before 2008 and today, there’s a disturbing tendency in Washington to not take mortgage fraud seriously

Distracted by the perceived threat of a Chinese savings glut, mainstream macroeconomists missed the writing on the wall of the 2008 crisis

In 2008 a global financial meltdown was just barely contained. But Adam Tooze says that the crisis of confidence has had long aftershocks

10 years later, Nobel laureate George Akerlof says the walls within economics need to come down

George Soros and Rob Johnson Discuss the Causes and Consequences of the 2008 Financial Crisis

Despite disparate policy beliefs, MMT and orthodox macro rely on many of the same theoretical foundations

Ten years ago, the financial crisis washed away faith and trust in economics as a guide to social prosperity. Filling a void is difficult. We are still hard at work. 

The anthropologist David Graeber has argued that as much as 30% of all work is performed in “bullshit jobs,” which are unnecessary to produce truly valuable goods and services but arise from competition for income and status. But the deeper problem is that more and more economic activity performs a merely distributive function.

In China, the government uses the purses strings of state-owned enterprises to control social unrest

It’s not just Turkey­—from India to Indonesia, external financial liabilities are a looming threat

Using datasets on transactions within business groups and social sentiment in China, I show that state-owned enterprises (SOEs) use internal funds to address social unrest, complying with the government’s political goals.