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Over at Grasping Reality: Comment: The Idler: Lehman Brothers Once Again

Over at Grasping Reality: Comment: The Idler: Lehman Brothers Once Again: “Fed transcripts: Bernanke chose to let Lehman fail…

…Newly released transcripts cast doubt on the claim that the Fed didn’t have the power to save the investment bank http://fortune.com/2014/02/21/fed-transcripts-bernanke-chose-to-let-lehman-fail
But the difference between a firm being insolvent and illiquid isn’t cut-and-dried, and it hinges on how you value a bunch of inscrutable assets…. We can see that the Fed was clearly considering a $200 billion loan to help keep Lehman afloat. These emails called that approach ‘a gamble’ that might be worth taking… READ MOAR

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Over at Grasping Reality: Comment: The Idler: Lehman Brothers Once Again

August 12, 2015

August 12, 2015

Factsheet: Is the U.S. economy in a recession, and how does recession dating work?

U.S. income and wealth inequality are no longer increasing, but a return to the equitable levels of the mid-20th century isn’t likely anytime soon