Post tagged with financial crisis

  • Revisiting "The Coming Economic Earthquake"

    March 22nd, 201009:30 AM ET
    By Matthew Pryor
    Echoing concerns raised by Larry Burkett in his 1994 book, The Coming Economic Earthquake, SMI Assistant Editor Joseph Slife recently wrote a "déjà vu all over again"  post about runaway government spending and debt. (Back in the day, Joseph did some of the research for the Earthquake book and produced a radio special based on it.) To ...

  • In scary times, looking to the God who gives a "sound mind"

    February 08th, 201008:47 AM ET
    By Joseph Slife
    Here is an interesting tidbit from former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's new book, On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System. Back in my temporary office on the 13th floor, a jolt of fear suddenly overcame me as I thought of what lay ahead of us. Lehman was as good as dead, and AIG's problems were spi...

  • We should have seen it coming

    November 05th, 200909:02 AM ET
    By Joseph Slife
    In a column for the Wall Street Journal, the always-insightful Jeremy Seigel, a professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School (and author of Stocks for the Long Run), gets to the heart of what led to the financial meltdown. The key, he writes, can be found in data collected by Prof. Robert Shiller of Yale University. ...

  • A year ago...

    September 16th, 200910:05 AM ET
    By Mark Biller
    Yesterday marked the unhappy anniversary of the slide into financial panic. While the financial landscape may not be in great shape today, I think most would agree that things could be a whole lot worse. In fact, I'd guess that if we had taken a reader survey 50 weeks ago, many/most probably would have expected conditions to be worse today than t...

  • Bernanke - Take 2

    September 02nd, 200910:50 AM ET
    By Mark Biller
    Last week, President Obama made it official and reappointed Ben Bernanke for a second term as Federal Reserve Chairman. This wasn't a big surprise and was viewed by many as the safe choice. It would have been tough to switch to a new leader while we're still very much in the midst of volatile economic times. That's not to say, however, that ev...
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