Derivative

...the perfect being an enemy of the planet. "By all means keep a watchful eye on speculators and regulate derivatives - and make market manipulation illegal, as Waxman-Markey does," Krugman writes. "But don't apply standards to emissions...

In this article: Carbon, Byron Dorgan, Climate change, EPA, United States Senate, House of Representatives, and Morgan Stanley

8. Michael L. Wagner | 03.19.09 I read a Paul Krugman article in which he said that Merill Lynch only got involved with sub-prime mortage derivatives AFTER the sub-prime debacle was common knowledge… Furthermore, what sense does it make...

In this article: AIG, Barack Obama, Capitalism, Tax, SEC, Paul Krugman, and Edward Liddy

...most responsible for causing the subprime crisis. Krugman points to Greenspan and Gramm for the key roles they played in keeping derivatives, financial markets, and investment banks unregulated, and to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which...

In this article: Paul Robin Krugman, Economics, Enron, George W. Bush, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Japan, Alan Greenspan, and United States

...Krugman's quote about the curse of the Business Week cover. (This observation seems derivative of the famous Sports Illustrated cover jinx, but still an incremental contribution). On Friday, Krugman's NYT column was entitled "Making Banking...

In this article: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Paul Krugman, Financial crisis, Sports Illustrated, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and Business Week

The optimists say the government is unlikely to have to make good on its loan guarantees. The pessimists, like Krugman (and others such as Portfolio.com's Felix Salmon, who calls the plan doomed from the start), think it will: They believe the...

In this article: Paul Krugman, Balance sheet, BlackRock, and White House

...the Obama-as-FDR Time cover. Obama will almost certainly refer to the concept that we have nothing to fear but fear itself - if you don't count, of course, the fear that comes of being asked to define a derivative. Paul Krugman, the Nobel...

In this article: Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Ron Walters, Washington, and James Meredith

...were, described as looking very much like a digging implement. That said, it does appear based on the cumulative evdience that Krugman was optimistic about the ability of housing to cushion the fallout from the tech recession, but that is...

In this article: Paul Krugman, The Fed, Recession, Inflation, Alan Greenspan, Fannie Mae, Economics, and Jon Stewart

...Gramm in his New York Times column as "the arch-deregulator, who took special care in his Senate days to prevent oversight of financial derivatives -- the very instruments that sank Lehman and A.I.G., and brought the credit markets to...

In this article: John McCain, Phil Gramm, Randy Scheunemann, Barack Obama, Enron, Rick Davis, Charlie Black, Sarah Palin, and Paul Volcker

...in the U.S. economy, that might well bode very favorably for stock prices. In fact, stocks could have a banner year in 2009 if the second derivative of decline in the U.S. economy has already bottomed or if it bottoms early in 2009, and...

In this article: Recession, Deflation, Unemployment, Paul Krugman, U.S., Real estate bubble, and Inflation