Tag: financial crisis


Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis

Johan Norberg on Book TV (from his Cato appearance) Johan Norberg at Cato (full video of forum)

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Essential Financial Crisis Reading

In preparation for my talks in Moscow and St. Petersburg on the financial crisis and the risks of protectionism, I did a lot of additional reading, focusing on serious scholarship…

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Norberg and the Comparison to a Chautauqua Tent Revivalist*

I’ve been quite busy for the past weeks, but I had a slow-ish day today, so I clarified my remarks about why Johan Norberg’s book Financial Fiasco is a good…

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Norberg on the Financial Crisis…. GREAT!!

Among the many books I read during my recent travels, I strongly recommend Johan Norberg’s truly excellent diagnosis of (and prescriptions for) the financial crisis: Financial Fiasco: How America’s Infatuation…

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Did Deregulation Cause the Financial Crisis?

Mark Calabria actually — gasp! — asks how we could answer that question and looks for the evidence in Cato Policy Report.

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My Interview with “Expert,” the Russian Business and Economics Magazine, on Various Matters, Notably the World Financial Crisis: “Don’t Treat a Hangover with Vodka”

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Policy Uncertainty Depresses Investment

The “economic experts” in Congress, the White House, and the bureaucracy have been rushing hither and yon with inconsistent and incoherent policies, hugely differing estimates of the amount of the…

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