Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Zubin Jelveh argues more evidence shows the housing crisis was all about the prices - not lax lending standards, but the initial existence of a low-down-payment mortgage. Post your comment!
The Plank (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... Must Pass by Christmas , by E.J. Dionne Jr. What’s the Most Depressing Day of the Week? by Zubin Jelveh Did Missiles Win the Cold War? A Soulless New Book Gets the History Wrong. by Peter Scoblic Why is Bernanke Pandering to Republicans? by John B. Judis As always, be sure to check out economic news on The Stash , environment and energy coverage on The Vine , the latest on health...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... in its Sights! by Michelle Cottle Is It Too Late For the Fed to Help Ease Unemployment Rates? by Zubin Jelveh As always, be sure to check out economic news on The Stash , environment and energy coverage on The Vine , the latest on health care at The Treatment , metro policy debate on The Avenue , and Marty Peretz's The Spine . Also be sure to take a look at TNR's new blogs by William...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
... the Cervix , by Michelle Cottle Ronald Reagan: Accidental Champion of the Black Underclass , by Zubin Jelveh Who the $@&! Are the New Heads of the European Union? by Amanda Silverman Democrats Think They Can Win the Climate Debate by Playing up National Security Concerns. They’re Wrong. by Bradford Plumer Designing One of the Most Crucial Aspects of Health Care Reform ,...
kevin drum (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Over at TNR, Zubin Jelveh puts up this graph of consumer spending and notes that it's turned up a bit since August. Last month it even crossed above the zero mark, meaning that consumer spending is up a bit from the same period last year. But the home equity machine is gone, and that was a big part of what drove increases in consumer spending in previous years as homeowners took out...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
... Minorities , by Anne Applebaum What Previous Recessions Teach Us About Jobless Recoveries , by Zubin Jelveh The ‘Should We Stay or Should We Go’ Matrix: Where Our Top Opinion-Makers Stand on the Afghanistan Question , by Barron YoungSmith, Ben Bernstein, Noah Kristula-Green, and Julie Sobel As always, be sure to check out economic news on The Stash , environment and energy...
Sox First (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
To fix the unemployment problem, economist Paul Krugman suggests the US Government bring in a WPA (Works Progress Administration) -type program, the same sort of approach that was adopted in the New Deal. The problem with that, as Zubin Jelveh, says in the New Republic is that people taking up Depression-era WPA jobs were more likely to be unskilled, so when economic conditions picked...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... Homecourt , by Lydia DePillis Why I Don't Think Government Should Create a Jobs Program , by Zubin Jelveh As always, be sure to check out economic news on The Stash , environment and energy coverage on The Vine , the latest on health care at The Treatment , metro policy debate on The Avenue , and Marty Peretz's The Spine . Also be sure to take a look at TNR's new blogs by William...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... With Just Medium-Sized Banks? by Simon Johnson When Politics and Academia Don’t Mix , by Zubin Jelveh As always, be sure to check out economic news on The Stash , environment and energy coverage on The Vine , the latest on health care at The Treatment , metro policy debate on The Avenue , and Marty Peretz's The Spine . Also be sure to take a look at TNR's new blogs by William...
NDN Blog - NDN Blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Related Programs Other Related Programs: Globalization Initiative The Great Recession Some end of the day reading: TNR's Zubin Jelveh covers an element of something I wrote about last week - political attacks on the stimulus for being a negative factor on growth. Unfortunately, this attack comes from a conservative economist who should know better. The WSJ says the International Energy...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... Rudolf Kasztner a Hero or a Traitor? by Marty Peretz Is Going to an Ivy League School Worth It? by Zubin Jelveh A Truly ‘Smart’ Way to Stimulate the Economy by Emilia Istrate As always, be sure to check out economic news on The Stash , environment and energy coverage on The Vine , the latest on health care at The Treatment , metro policy debate on The Avenue , and Marty...
