Fed chief says flaws in the financial system were undetected - Kansas City Star


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Fed chief says flaws in the financial system were undetected
Kansas City Star
Bernanke stuck with his long-held stance that the Fed did not aid the housing bubble by keeping interest rates too low for too long in 2002-04. ...
Bernanke Rejects Criticism Of Fed As Cause Of Financial CrisisRTT News
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Advice from the IMF: Why Do These People Still Have Jobs? - TPMCafé (blog)

Advice from the IMF: Why Do These People Still Have Jobs?
TPMCafé (blog)
... that the United States and other wealthy countries are running large deficits is that we had a huge housing bubble that burst and sank the economy. ...

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Mortgages fuel Brazilian housing boom - BBC News

Mortgages fuel Brazilian housing boom
BBC News
"We must not make the same mistakes as the United States and Spain did." Developers in Brazil insist banking regulations here are much tighter than they ...

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Housing bubble? No bubble? What do you think? - Vancouver Sun (blog)


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Housing bubble? No bubble? What do you think?
Vancouver Sun (blog)
CD Howe, on the other hand, traces the quite different histories of house-price increases in Canada and the United States, and underlines policies here that ...
Reports conflict on housing bubble possibilityCBC.ca
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US style surge in foreclosures unlikely in Canada: reportCalgary Herald

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The housing bubble reconsidered - FT Alphaville (blog)

The housing bubble reconsidered
FT Alphaville (blog)
In the United States, the monetary policy shocks are associated with, on average, an extra 0.6 percentage points on annual real credit growth and an extra ...

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Support of Anglo Irish Bank Strains Ireland - New York Times (blog)

Support of Anglo Irish Bank Strains Ireland
New York Times (blog)
Both the United States and Britain avoided such a move by taking stakes in their troubled banks and, in the case of Britain, insuring their worst-performing ...

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Five reasons to be optimistic about the economy - Washington Post (blog)

Five reasons to be optimistic about the economy
Washington Post (blog)
The housing bubble could just have easily been called the credit bubble. A reversion to the inflated housing prices seen in the last decade or so would ...

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Keeping bubble trouble at bay - Business Times (subscription)

Keeping bubble trouble at bay
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Look no further than the United States for a case, if any were needed, of the dire consequences from the bursting of a housing bubble. ...

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