An hour with Mikhail Gorbachev and George Shultz on Charlie Rose
Former President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, and former U.S. Secretary of State, George Shultz, reflect on the events surrounding the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Reinhart: Not everybody can be above-average in stress tests
Irrespective of whether one thinks the stress tests used to test the U.S. banking system is a sham (10% unemployment is not a worst-case scenario), the fact of the matter is these tests MUST show some differentiation in order to be…
Simon Johnson: Too big to fail is “too big to exist”
Simon Johnson, a former IMF Chief Economist, who blogs over at the Baseline Scenario, is testifying before Congress today about 'Too big to fail' financial institutions. Below is a video in which he tells Bloomberg his thoughts on the…
Jamie Dimon: ‘we don’t need’ your money
On the back of a decent quarter at JPMorgan Chase, CEO Jamie Dimon has signalled his desire to repay government money as quickly as possible and remove the strings attached to that money. Dimon has often said that JPMorgan Chase did not…
Jim Grant says U.S. policy response is inflationary
Jim Grant is definitely not in the deflation camp. He believes a robust policy response and enormous expansion in the Fed balance sheet is storing up monster inflationary forces which could take holding a recovery. As a result, he is…
A conversation with Robert Caro on Charlie Rose
One of my favorite books is "The Power Broker," a book for which Robert Caro won a Pulitzer Prize. It documents the life and times of master builder Robert Moses, who shaped New York City and American and world city planning for decades.…
Mike Mayo: writedowns worse than the Great Depression
Despite the fact that I can envisage a cyclical upturn this Winter, the menace of bank writedowns is ever-present. One analyst who has been particularly prescient on warning on this front is Mike Mayo, now working at Calyon. Below David…
Arianna Huffington asks why the banks are getting a better deal
This clip is very much in line with my thinking from a previous post.
Obama remarks on auto industry
In 2 hours I will be on BBC World News Today talking about the recent government actions involving the auto industry. Afterwards, I will have more to say about this here. In the meantime, here is what Barack Obama had to say.
Tim Geithner defends bailout plan on “Meet the Press”
Below is the video clip of U.S. Treasury Secretary defending his bailout plan which the likes of Paul Krugman have called "a plan to rearrange the deck chairs and hope that that keeps us from hitting the iceberg."
The investors'…