The Global Economic Crisis

Harry Kreisler's series Conversations with History recently assembled a thematic group of Conversations on "The Global Economic Crisis." (The list below may include more Conversations than were in that group.)

• Niall Ferguson: The Ascent of Money, 22 October 2008.
  
  Publications mentioned in this Conversation:
  • Niall Ferguson. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World. The Penguin Press, November 2008.
    (publisher; Google Book Search; Amazon.com.)
  
  
  • Niall Ferguson. The Cash Nexus: Economics And Politics From The Age Of Warfare Through The Age Of Welfare, 1700-2000. New York: Basic Books, 2002.
    (publisher; Google Book Search; Amazon.com.)



• Barry Eichengreen: Historical Perspective on the Global Economic Crisis, 22 January 2009.
  
  Publications mentioned in this Conversation:
  • Barry Eichengreen & Richard Baldwin, editors. Rescuing our jobs and savings: What G7/8 leaders can do to solve the global credit crisis, VoxEU.org, October 2008.
  
  
  • Barry Eichengreen. The European Economy since 1945: Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond. Princeton University Press, 2006, 2008.
    (publisher; Google Book Search; Amazon.com.)
  
  
  • Barry Eichengreen. Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System, second edition. Princeton University Press, 2008.
    (publisher; Google Book Search; Amazon.com.)



• David M. Kennedy: Lessons from FDR's New Deal, 03 February 2009.
  
  Publications mentioned in this Conversation:
  • David M. Kennedy. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945. Oxford University Press, 2001.
    (publisher; Google Book Search; Amazon.com.)
  
  
  • David M. Kennedy. Over Here: The First World War and American Society. Oxford University Press, 1980, 2004.
    (publisher; Google Book Search; Amazon.com.)
  
  
  • David M. Kennedy. Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger. Yale University Press, 1970; ACLS Humanities reprint & e-book, 2008.
    (publisher; Google Book Search; Amazon.com.)
  
  
  • James M. McPherson. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. Oxford University Press, 1988.
    (publisher; Google Book Search; Amazon.com.)



• Martin Wolf: Causes and Consequences of Global Economic Collapse, 19 February 2009.
  
  Publications mentioned in this Conversation:
  • Martin Wolf. Fixing Global Finance. The Johns Hopkins University Press, September 2008.
    (publisher; Amazon.com.)
  
  
  • Martin Wolf. Why Globalization Works, second edition. Yale University Press, 2005.
    (publisher; Google Book Search; Amazon.com.)
  
  
  • Martin Wolf at the Financial Times.



• James A. Leach: Congress, Globalization, and the Economic Crisis, 17 March 2009.

In contrast to the above episodes on Economics, I found greater personal interest & inspiration in Harry's recent Conversations with scientists:
Lucy Shapiro;
John Harte;
Neil Shubin;
Amory Lovins.

Political Economy:

• John Bogle, Bill Moyers Journal, PBS, 28 September 2007.
  (John Bogle "is the founder and retired CEO of The Vanguard Group." [Wikipedia])


• * Jonathan Nitzan & Shimshon Bichler, Countours of Crisis: Part I, Dollars & Sense (also archived at GlobalResearch.ca), 31 December 2008.
  
  Jonathan Nitzan & Shimshon Bichler, Countours of Crisis: Part II, Dollars & Sense (also archived at GlobalResearch.ca), 28 April 2009.


• Milestones in the Carmakers’ Crisis: Major events in the automakers' decline and rescue efforts, The New York Times, 16 February 2009.
  Points to NYT articles from July 2008 through April 2009.


• Yalman Onaran, Colleges Flunk Economics Test as Harvard Model Destroys Budgets, Bloomberg.com, 01 May 2009.


• Dwight Cass & Edward Hadas, Banks Are Prevailing in a Tug of War, The New York Times and BreakingViews.com, 03 May 2009.


• Allan H. Meltzer, Inflation Nation, The New York Times, 03 May 2009.
  
  Paul Krugman, A history lesson for Alan Meltzer, Krugman's blog at The New York Times, 04 May 2009.


• Devin Leonard, How Lehman Got Its Real Estate Fix, The New York Times, 03 May 2009.


• Robert Kuttner, Reviving Pecora's Ghost, The Huffington Post, 03 May 2009.
  
  Pecora Part II?, Bill Moyers' Journal, 24 April 2009.
  
  Heist!
  (When I saw this website it had a 15 minute trailer for the film, in addition to links to the interviewees publications and other information.)


• Dean Baker, Outsourcing Top Management: The Lesson of Fiat-Chrysler, The Huffington Post, 04 May 2009.


• Matthew Richardson & Nouriel Roubini, We Can't Subsidize the Banks Forever, WSJ.com, 05 May 2009.


• Greg Mitchell, How Media Will Pay for Poor Warning on Financial Collapse, The Huffington Post, 05 May 2009.
  
  * Robert L. Borosage, Corruption Is Dangerous to Your Health, The Huffington Post, 05 May 2009.
  
  Michael J. Moore & Jamie McGee, Wall Street Firms Will Revert to Pre-Crisis Model, Cohen Says, Bloomberg.com, 05 May 2009.


• RandySF, Mark Penn: Obama Might Offend the Wealthy, Daily Kos, DailyKos.com, 05 May 2009.


• Shiyin Chen & Liza Lin, Global Crisis ‘Vastly Worse’ Than 1930s, Taleb Says, Bloomberg.com, 07 May 2009.


• William Greider, The Good Times as We Knew it Aren't Coming Back, So Now What?, AlterNet.org, 08 May 2009.


• Martin Wolf, Why Obama’s conservatism may not prove good enough, FT.com, 12 May 2009.


• * Nouriel Roubini, The Almighty Renminbi?, The New York Times, 13 May 2009.


• Dean Starkman, Power Problem: The business press did everything but take on the institutions that brought down the financial system, Columbia Journalism Review, May/June 2009.


• Tyler Durden, CT Attorney General: "It's Time To Shatter The Old Boys Club Of Rating Agencies", Zero Hedge, 14 May 2009.


• * Tyler Durden, Mark Patterson: "It's A Sham. The Banks Are Insolvent", Zero Hedge, 14 May 2009.


• Anthony Faiola & Lori Montgomery, Trade Wars Launched With Ruses, End Runs, The Washington Post, 15 May 2009.


• Ryan Chittum, So That’s Why the Press Won’t Cover Elizabeth Warren!: NPR badgers oversight panel chair over her legitimacy, The Audit, Columbia Journalism Review, 15 May 2009.
  
  Jason Linkins, "Planet Money" Reporter Paints Elizabeth Warren As Agenda-Driven, The Huffington Post, 15 May 2009.
  
  Yves Smith, Thought Police I: More Analysis of NPR Trying to Discredit Elizabeth Warren, naked capitalism, 15 May 2009.
  
  Yves Smith, Thought Police II: Media Airbrushing (Including Removal of Article With Negative Comments on TARP), naked capitalism, 15 May 2009.


• Special Feature: Inside The Banking Crisis, Bill Moyers' Journal.
  
  This page assembles episodes and segments related to U.S. economic news over the last few years.


• Josh Harkinson, How the Nation’s Only State-Owned Bank Became the Envy of Wall Street, Mother Jones Blog, 27 March 2009.


• * Edward Harrison, Guest post: A populist interpretation of the latest Boom-Bust cycle, naked capitalism, 15 May 2009.
  


• * Jesse, The Worst Is Yet to Come, Jesse's Café Américain, 15 May 2009.
  
  "Today reminds me of the briefly sunny period in 1930-1 when most economists and public officials agreed that the Depression was already over and the economy was back on track."

Geopolitics:

• Richard Spencer, China's growth more Occident than design, Telegraph.co.uk, 09 April 2009.


• Pepe Escobar, The myth of Talibanistan, Asia Times, 30 April 2009.
  
  "The Taliban's activities in Buner in Pakistan - which prompted a sharp response from the military - have raised concern over the country to the level of hysteria; that it is about to fall to an army of turbans. This is not going to happen. What is happening is that the United States, to legitimize the next stage in the Af-Pak war, is creating a new uber-bogeyman - Pakistan Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud."
  
  Shahan Mufti & Juan Cole, Bill Moyers' Journal, 15 May 2009.
  
  Jalal Ghazi, America Creating 'Talibanization' in Pakistan, Say Arab Media, New America Media, 15 May 2009.


• Jeremy Scahill, US Soldiers in Afghanistan Told to "Hunt People for Jesus... So We Get Them into the Kingdom" (Video), The Huffington Post, 04 May 2009.
  
  Jeff Sharlet, Jesus Killed Mohammed: The Crusade for a Christian Military, Harper's Magazine, May 2009.
  
  Neela Banerjee, Religion and Its Role Are in Dispute at the Service Academies, The New York Times, 25 June 2008.


• Michael Scheuer, Obama’s Afghan-Ignorant Policy Guide, AntiWar.com, 06 May 2009.


• Malcolm Gladwell, How David Beats Goliath, The New Yorker, 11 May 2009.

Geography:

• The Hot Spots for Organic Food [Farms, actually], The New York Times, 02 May 2009.
  Some interesting maps associated with the article.

Militarism, Propaganda, Torture:

• Rachel Weiner, Mike Pence Descends Into Gibberish After Evolution Questions From Chris Matthews (VIDEO), The Huffington Post, 05 May 2009.


• Glenn Greenwald, Obama administration threatens Britain to keep torture evidence concealed, Salon.com, 12 May 2009.


• * Siv O'Neall, Will Democracy Forever Remain an Illusion?, Axis of Logic, 12 May 2009.
  Also posted at The Smirking Chimp.


• Rory O'Connor, Why Is the Mainstream Media Seduced by Torture?, AlterNet, 13 May 2009.


• Glenn Greenwald, The massive expansion of America's "Hard Left", Salon.com, 13 May 2009.


• Jennifer Steinhauer, Scouts Train to Fight Terrorists, and More, The New York Times, 13 May 2009.
  
  For a good introduction to U.S. militarism see: Andrew J. Bacevich, The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War, Oxford University Press, August 2006 (publisher; Amazon.com; "Conversations with History").


• Joe Conason, We tortured to justify war, Salon.com, 14 May 2009.


• Alex Koppelman, Cheney's torture trap for Democrats, Salon.com, 15 May 2009.


• Glenn Greenwald, We wouldn't want to inflame anti-American sentiment, Salon.com, 14 May 2009.