Comments on: What the IMF Would Tell the United States, If It Could http://baselinescenario.com/2009/03/26/what-the-imf-would-tell-the-united-states-if-it-could/ What happened to the global economy and what we can do about it Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:19:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Raymond Willis http://baselinescenario.com/2009/03/26/what-the-imf-would-tell-the-united-states-if-it-could/#comment-11095 Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:21:53 +0000 http://baselinescenario.com/?p=3071#comment-11095 Clearly, there is not one single cause for the changes that took place in and around 1980. It can be noted however, that the 1970s marked a major change in the curricula of American business schools, from a, perhaps mythical, concept of “professional management” with an underlying broad set of professional objectives to a focus on technical analysis using mathematical models with simple, usually financial, objective functions. In this way, we trained a new set of business managers

]]> By: Andrew Sullivan « Weilerblog http://baselinescenario.com/2009/03/26/what-the-imf-would-tell-the-united-states-if-it-could/#comment-10973 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:27:08 +0000 http://baselinescenario.com/?p=3071#comment-10973 [...] be hard to sort through. But the patterns in income inequality do yield some conclusions. One, highlighted by James Kwak, (who co-authored “The Quiet Coup” with Simon Johnson) is that there has been an [...]

]]> By: Carter Jefferson http://baselinescenario.com/2009/03/26/what-the-imf-would-tell-the-united-states-if-it-could/#comment-10877 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:38:33 +0000 http://baselinescenario.com/?p=3071#comment-10877 I’ve posted a review of the Atlantic article on the blog of the Internet Review of Books – http://internetreviewofbooks.blogspot.com/

I truly hope it brings you a few more readers.

Carter Jefferson

]]> By: The Department Of Justice Is On Line Two « The Baseline Scenario http://baselinescenario.com/2009/03/26/what-the-imf-would-tell-the-united-states-if-it-could/#comment-10785 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:10:29 +0000 http://baselinescenario.com/?p=3071#comment-10785 [...] just saying that we have a problem – ultimately, with the belief system that underpins how big finance behaves – and we need to fix [...]

]]> By: Bring In The Antitrust Division (On Banking) - The Plank http://baselinescenario.com/2009/03/26/what-the-imf-would-tell-the-united-states-if-it-could/#comment-10676 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:07:08 +0000 http://baselinescenario.com/?p=3071#comment-10676 [...] way to force your rivals into bankruptcy and to move closer to monopoly power), and the broader increase in economic and political power of the biggest financial services players over the past 20 years and the last 6 months – this is [...]

]]> By: Bring In The Antitrust Division (On Banking) « The Baseline Scenario http://baselinescenario.com/2009/03/26/what-the-imf-would-tell-the-united-states-if-it-could/#comment-10640 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:03:39 +0000 http://baselinescenario.com/?p=3071#comment-10640 [...] predatory way to force your rivals into bankruptcy and to move closer to monopoly power), and the broader increase in economic and political power of the biggest financial services players over the past 20 years and the last 6 months – this is [...]

]]> By: Calling All Shareholders « The Baseline Scenario http://baselinescenario.com/2009/03/26/what-the-imf-would-tell-the-united-states-if-it-could/#comment-10289 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:39:07 +0000 http://baselinescenario.com/?p=3071#comment-10289 [...] is a remarkable moment.  Excessive risk taking in large firms was based on inappropriate bonus structures (take risk and get compensated now; face the consequences of that [...]

]]> By: Does The US Still Face An Emerging Market-Type Crisis? « The Baseline Scenario http://baselinescenario.com/2009/03/26/what-the-imf-would-tell-the-united-states-if-it-could/#comment-9834 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:37:38 +0000 http://baselinescenario.com/?p=3071#comment-9834 [...] a comment » The US has developed some features more typically seen in an emerging market, including disproportionate power and system-threatening activities in the finance sector.  In [...]

]]> By: Worried http://baselinescenario.com/2009/03/26/what-the-imf-would-tell-the-united-states-if-it-could/#comment-8954 Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:31:39 +0000 http://baselinescenario.com/?p=3071#comment-8954 Mr. Amigos,

Please lose the hate, mate! Intellectual mass murder won’t elucidate or fix anything in the long run.

An extremist ideology at the root of the crisis stealthily embedded itself in the U.S. long ago. That ideology and its core proponents bear the blame.

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/soros.htm
“”The Capitalist Threat” by George Soros
Atlantic Monthly, Volume 279, No. 2, February 1997″

]]> By: Vas http://baselinescenario.com/2009/03/26/what-the-imf-would-tell-the-united-states-if-it-could/#comment-8857 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:45:00 +0000 http://baselinescenario.com/?p=3071#comment-8857 Oh yeah, I forgot.

Thanks for the article!

]]> By: Vas http://baselinescenario.com/2009/03/26/what-the-imf-would-tell-the-united-states-if-it-could/#comment-8856 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:40:00 +0000 http://baselinescenario.com/?p=3071#comment-8856 Outstanding. Simply outstanding.

Think that’s all I need to say.

]]> By: El que luchó contra las reformas del sector financiero, al frente de las mismas reformas | nv1962 http://baselinescenario.com/2009/03/26/what-the-imf-would-tell-the-united-states-if-it-could/#comment-8690 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:41:57 +0000 http://baselinescenario.com/?p=3071#comment-8690 [...] una escueta nota al final de la entrada correspondiente en su bitácora, James Kwak hace mención del caso de Mark A. Patterson (actualmente el Jefe de Gabinete de la [...]

]]> By: Primera parte de la traducción de The Quiet Coup, de Simon Johnson | nv1962 http://baselinescenario.com/2009/03/26/what-the-imf-would-tell-the-united-states-if-it-could/#comment-8523 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:52:34 +0000 http://baselinescenario.com/?p=3071#comment-8523 [...] – al ser posible en inglés, ya que no estoy seguro que lo entienda bien en español – en su entrada en la que anunció la publicación de su [...]

]]> By: nv1962 http://baselinescenario.com/2009/03/26/what-the-imf-would-tell-the-united-states-if-it-could/#comment-8519 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:26:09 +0000 http://baselinescenario.com/?p=3071#comment-8519 Hi James & Simon, I took the liberty of translating your fantastic essay, as published in The Atlantic but in two parts (as it took me two days) into Spanish. Hopefully this small contribution helps in propelling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about what needs to be done, and moreover: why.

My heartfelt thanks for your essay.

]]> By: Segunda parte de la traducción de The Quiet Coup, de Simon Johnson | nv1962 http://baselinescenario.com/2009/03/26/what-the-imf-would-tell-the-united-states-if-it-could/#comment-8517 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:01:36 +0000 http://baselinescenario.com/?p=3071#comment-8517 [...] – al ser posible en inglés, ya que no estoy seguro que lo entienda bien en español – en su entrada en la que anunció la publicación de su [...]

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