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“Bailout” Podcasts

Started by TLF · 9 months ago

My employer, The Cato Institute, has put together a couple of podcasts that make for interesting listening as we try to understand what has happened in mortgage finance and financial services - and what is to come.
Cato Chairman Bill Niskanen speaks to us in “The $700-Billion Bai ... Continue reading »

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  • Steve R.

    9 months ago

    Good podcasts. I liked the analysis. In most respects they were appropriately neutral. Though the speakers acknowledge corporate greed, there were a couple stabs at offloading the blame on the whipping boy of regulation. Regulation may have facilitated this financial meltdown, but it took the leadership and innovation of the corporate executives to create these financial instruments, to market them, and to conveniently overlook risk management. I'll stop here.
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  • cordblomquist

    9 months ago

    CEI has a podcast on the bailout and financial meltdown as well, I'm just not as much of a shameless self-promter as Harper. Check out Episode 9 of LibertyWeek at http://libertyweek.org
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