Robert Bruner: Missing Financial Crisis Lesson
University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business Professor Robert Bruner offered up his insights into the lessons we did not learn in... Read More
Economists and Credentialism
On his Grumpy Economist blog, John Cochrane wrote an interesting post on Economists as Public Intellectuals. What caught my attention in his... Read More
Economists and Their Inability to Say They Don’t Know
Why do Economists, particularly macro-economists, have such a difficult time saying “I don’t know” rather than confidently offering an ill-informed opinion? Consider... Read More
Upton Sinclair was Right About MacroEconomists
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A decade after the beginning of the global financial crisis, I have come to realize the inability of macroeconomists to understand the... Read More
Answering Thaler’s Calls for Good Nudges
At a banquet prior to accepting his Economics Nobel Prize, Richard Thaler observed: So what did I discover to get up here?... Read More
Regulators and Economists Continue to Block Transparency
McKinsey, the large international consulting firm, provide one of my favorite quotes to emerge from the financial crisis: After Lehman’s demise, participants... Read More
Banks’ Seduction of Their Regulators to Continue
For years, I have made the deliberately exaggerated statement: if banks disclosed their current exposure details, bank examiners would never have to... Read More
What is the Most Efficient Way to Regulate Wall Street?
According to the Federal Reserve’s Vice Chairman in charge of bank supervision, Efficiency has to be equally important with safety and soundness... Read More
Gary Gorton and the Panic of 2007
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As I was reading Professor Gorton’s article for the 2008 Jackson Hole conference, I realized it confirms everything I have said about... Read More