Roosevelt Archive September 2010

September 2010

• Regulation of Financial Institutions: Can We Avoid the Next Crisis?

  Roosevelt Institute Senior Fellow Jeff Madrick debates the 2008 crisis and the future of the financial industry with Citigroup’s Richard Parsons and NPR’s Adam Davidson:

  September 2010
• More on the Florida Foreclosure Nightmare

  Foreclosure cases are running afoul of the law, and underwater homeowners get shafted.

  September 2010
• The Business: Why Obama's economists are deserting him

  The chief architect of President Barack Obama's economic policy, Larry
  Summers, announced last week that he'd be leaving the administration

  September 2010
• Rob Johnson Blasts “Oligopoly-Style” Global Standoff

  With unfailing energy, world-traveler Rob Johnson

  September 2010
• Emerging FX need 20-25 pct revaluation - economist
  September 2010
• Does a Weaker Currency Equal Default? Not in the Real World.

  Let’s repeat it one more time, for good measure: the US isn’t going bankrupt.

  September 2010
• September 30

  What you need to know to navigate today’s most critical debates.

  September 2010
• ND20 Alert: Elizabeth Warren Heads into the Lion’s Den (Again)

  The new sheriff is set to give a speech to some bank robbers.

  September 2010
• Incarceration’s Devastating Effects on Economic Mobility

  We can, and should, do more to help former inmates get back to work.

  September 2010
• Why We Should be Mad as Hell About Florida’s Foreclosures

  We could be giving underwater homeowners a chance.

  September 2010
• National Labor Relations Act

  What is the National Labor Relations Act?

  September 2010
• Visualizing the Nonsense of Fiscal Austerity

  In a new short video, Mark Blyth breaks down the “nonsense” of fiscal austerity, now all the rage in governments across the globe.

  September 2010
• September 29

  What you need to know to navigate today’s most critical debates.

  September 2010
• Will It Work and How Will We Know? The Future of FinReg

  Mike Konczal and the Roosevelt Institute to discuss the second act of the Dodd-Frank Act.

  September 2010
• Bill Clinton Gets it Wrong on Structural Unemployment

  I saw Bill Clinton on Letterman exp

  September 2010
• Soros and Johnson Rethink the Foundations of Economics

  A financial disaster of the caliber not witnessed since the Great Depression. Millions unemployed. Foreclosures running rampant. It’s not hard to look around these days and see economics failing.

  September 2010
• Structure of Excuses

  What can be done about mass unemployment? All the wise heads agree: there are no quick or easy answers.

  September 2010
• September 28

  What you need to know to navigate today’s most critical debates.

  September 2010
• Stiglitz, Ferguson talk Social Security and Labor Rights at Hyde Park

  A celebration at Hyde Park marked the passage of two laws that changed America, and Roosevelt fellows w

  September 2010
• Hamptons Institute: Soros, Warren and Greenberger on FinReg

  You may know that over the summer, the Roosevelt Institute partnered with Guild Hall to put on the Hamptons Institute, a gathering of prominent thought leaders in politics, economics, media, and

  September 2010
• The Stagnating Labor Market: Arjun Jayadev and Mike Konczal Discover Unsettling Unemployment Trends

  Roosevelt Institute Fellows Arjun Jayadev and Mike Konczal’s  new Working Paper exposes c

  September 2010
• Report from the Frontlines: Mission Not Accomplished on Derivatives Reform

  FinReg passed. But now the battle rages over how to implement meaningful reform.

  September 2010
• September 27

  What you need to know to navigate today’s most critical debates.

  September 2010
• The Future of Financial Reform: Will It Work? How Will We Know?

  Panel 1, Introductions:

  September 2010
• The Defense/Deficit Paradox

  High defense budgets have bloody consequences.

  September 2010