Aug 26 Simon Johnson on Consumer Protection By Business Desk Editor’s note: Today’s segment in our continuing series of video conversations with economist Simon Johnson, author of the popular Baseline Scenario blog, focuses on the Obama administration’s plan to reform consumer protections for financial products. At one point,… Continue reading
Aug 25 Simon Johnson on Bank Bonuses and ‘Too Big to Fail’ By Business Desk Editor’s note: The clip today in our continuing series of video conversations with economist Simon Johnson, author of the popular Baseline Scenario blog, which Paul Krugman calls a “must read,” concerns whether bank bonuses are deserved and whether… Continue reading
Aug 24 Simon Johnson on Jobs in the Recovery By Business Desk Editor’s note: As part of our continuing series of video conversations with economist Simon Johnson, author of the popular Baseline Scenario blog, which Paul Krugman calls a “must read,” today’s clip features a discussion between Paul and Simon… Continue reading
Aug 21 Simon Johnson on the Falling Dollar By Business Desk Editor’s Note: This week, we’re featuring video conversations with Simon Johnson, former chief economist at the IMF, now at the Peterson Institute and MIT, and author of… Continue reading
Aug 20 Simon Johnson on Economic Green Shoots By Business Desk Editor’s Note: For the next week, we’ll be featuring video conversations here on the Business Desk with one of our favorite economists, Simon Johnson, former chief economist at the IMF, now at the… Continue reading
Aug 05 Should We Have Dealt With ‘Too Big to Fail’ in the 1980s? Question: If you go back and look at the recession of 1982, you will see that the Fed bailed out large banks mainly due to bad LDC loans. I think the precedent of moral… Continue reading
Jul 13 Simon Johnson on Whether Wall Street Has Changed By Business Desk Paul Solman: MIT’s Simon Johnson, former chief economist at the IMF, is a frequent contributor to the NewsHour and this page. He’s also coauthor of a blog… Continue reading
Feb 11 Will Any Plan That Puts People Back to Work Actually Stimulate the Economy? Question/Comment: Everyone seems to have an opinion on what will stimulate the economy and what won’t. Won’t anything that puts people to work stimulate the economy, and are there entities, and their analyses, that can project stimulatory effects of different… Continue reading