Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Today’s Foundation, Tomorrow’s Crisis: The Geithner-Summers Proposals

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Written by Simon Johnson

June 15, 2009 at 8:17 am

Writing in the Washington Post this morning, Tim Geithner and Larry Summers outline a five point plan for dealing with the underlying problems in our financial system, entitled A New Financial Foundation.

The authors are not completely clear on what they think caused the current crisis, but you can back out some points from their reasoning – and the implicit view seems quite at odds with reality.

Today’s Foundation, Tomorrow’s Crisis: The Geithner-Summers Proposals « The Baseline Scenario

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