Tag Archives: Lehman Brothers

Naked Short Selling and the Financial Crisis

October 5, 2009 – 9:01 am

Today’s podcast focuses on the controversy over naked short selling, prompted mostly by leftist Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi’s coverage of the financial crisis, and whether or not the practice is actually to blame for a whole slew of terrible things — including the demise of Lehman Brothers.

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Lehman Brothers, the Federal Reserve, and the Limits of Bailouts

September 15, 2009 – 9:32 am

There is indeed an argument to be made that extraordinary times require extraordinary powers, but these guys never stepped over the line. (They did step right up to it.) This is a CRUCIAL point, because it means this is still a democracy.

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What Obama Got Wrong at Federal Hall

September 15, 2009 – 9:21 am

Today’s Coffee and Markets podcast focuses on the president’s remarks at Federal Hall on Wall Street, the financial sector, and the beauty of regulation. Why did the president skip the lessons we’ve learned from the past several months in favor of scoring political points?

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Have We Reached the Turning Point?

April 14, 2009 – 10:52 am

Are we at a turning point in the current crisis? The problem in answering is that it’s been all too easy for many people to assume that if we fix the financial crisis, we’ll fix the economic crisis. I’m not convinced of this.

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