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The Recession!
 

Materials Related to the Recession

Recession Timeline (Adobe Captivate) by Henry Chappell

Recession! (Paper - Principles of Economics) by Henry Chappell

Teaching the Recession (Paper - Almost the same as the paper above, but intended for Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory) by Henry Chappell

Teaching the Recession (Slides) by Henry Chappell

The Current Recession! 
(Voiced-Over PowerPoint, Spring 2009)

 
Links to Articles (WSJ Articles Require a Subscription):  

Best of the Recession!

Revolt of the Accountants (Noonan)
WSJ, 10/10/2010

Congress Approves Sweeping Financial Regulation Bill
Atlantic, 7/15/2010

A Tale of Two Recoveries (Recession is over)
WSJ, 9/21/2010

The Folly of Subsidizing Unemployment (Barro)
WSJ, 8/30/2010

Fed Ready to Dig Deeper to Aid Growth, Chief Says
NYT, 8/28/2010

Fed Split on Move to Bolster Sluggish Economy
WSJ, 8/24/2010

Obama's Economic Fish Stories (Boskin)
WSJ, 7/21/2010

Rousing the Spirits of Business to Create More Jobs (Wessel)
WSJ, 7/15/2010

Three Million Imaginary Jobs (Counterfactuals) 
WSJ, 7/15/2010

The Feckless Fed (Krugman on Delflation)
NYT, 7/11,2010

The Third Depression (Krugman)
NYT, 6/27/10

The Stimulus Evidence One Year On (Barro)
WSJ, 2/23/10

Behind AIG's Fall (Gorton)
WSJ, 2/23/10

Questions and Answers about the Financial Crisis (Gorton)
Prepared Congressional Testimony

Krugman on Stimulus: Part I   Part II   Part III   Part IV (Expected!)

Mankiw on Stimulus Part I   Part II
1/19/09

Rethinking the Bailout
WSJ, 2/17/10

It's Time for Financial Reform Plan C
WSJ, 2/15/10

How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?
Krugman, NYT, 9/2/2009

What Happened to the 'Depression'?
WSJ, 8/31/09, Meltzer

Bernanke Speech Reflections on a Year of Crisis
Bernanke Speech 8/21/2009

Federal Intervention Pits 'Gets' vs. 'Get-Nots'
WSJ, 6/15/09

Fed's Gamble: Buying Long Bonds
WSJ, 3/19/2009

Phelps and Prescott on the Stimulus and the Recession
The Week, 2/20/2009

Stimulus Bill Table
WSJ 2/17/2009

How Government Created the Financial Crisis (Taylor)
WSJ, 2/9/2009

Would You Pay $103,000 for This Arizona Fixer-Upper? 
WSJ, 1/3/2009

The Weekend That Wall Street Died
WSJ, 12/29/08

Bernanke Is the Best Stimulus Right Now - Robert Lucas
WSJ, 12/23/08

Sweden's Path, Not Japan's, Can Guide Cleanup
WSJ, 12/1/2008

We're Not Headed for a Depression (Becker)
WSJ 10/7/2008

We Need to Recapitalize the Banks (Phelps)
WSJ 10/1/2008

Charlie Evans on Modeling Financial Shocks in Macroeconomics
Speech, 9/19/08

Bernanke Speech: The Recent Financial Turmoil and its Economic and Policy Consequences
10/15/07

Other Articles

Fed Chief Gets Set to Apply Lessons of Japan's History
WSJ, 10/14/10

F.D.I.C. Outlines Path to Financial Repair
NYT, 10/14/2010

From Tea Party Advocates, Anger at the Federal Reserve
NYT, 10/11/10

The End of the Tunnel (Krugman)
NYT, 10/07/10

The Politics of Foreclosure
WSJ, 10/10/2010

Revolt of the Accountants
WSJ, 10/10/2010

Two Cheers for the New Bank Capital Standards (Blinder)
WSJ, 9/30/2010

SC Health Insurers Cutting Coverage to Some Kids
The State, 9/24/2010

S.C. May Seek Settlement of Catawba Suit
Charlotte Observer, 9/1/2010

How Seniors Will Pay for ObamaCare
WSJ, 9/23/2010

Banks Pressed on Sour Home Loans
Investors in Pool of Securities Seek to Force Lenders to Buy Back or Modify Problem Mortgages
WSJ, 9/23/2010

Bernanke Says He Failed to See Financial Flaws
NYT, 9/2/2010

Bernanke Manages Expectations for Fed Role
NYT, 8/29/2010

You Paid What for That Flight?
WSJ, 8/26/10

Attacking Social Security (Krugman)
NYT, 8/15/2010

What's in the (Financial Regulation) Bill?
WSJ

NYT on Financial Regulatory Reform

Geithner's Hollow 'Speed' Pledge to Business (Hubbard on Financial Regulation)
WSJ, 8/5/2010

Show Me ObamaCare (Missouri Vote)
WSJ, 8/5/2010

Fed Mulls Symbolic Shift (Buying bonds)
WSJ, 8/5/2010

Rewriting Fannie Mae History
WSJ, 8/3/2010

The Obama Agenda and the Enthusiasm Gap (Reich)
WSJ, 8/3/2010

Fat New World (Posner on Rational Obesity)
WSJ, 7/31/10

The Web's New Gold Mine: Your Secrets
WSJ, 7/31/10 (Also see How to Avoid the Prying Eyes)

The 2.4% Recovery
WSJ, 7/31/10

Fed in Hot Seat Again on Economic Stimulus
NYT, 7/21/2010

The Dodd-Frank Financial Fiasco (John Taylor)
WSJ, 6/30/10

Why Obamanomics Has Failed
WSJ, 6/30/10

Why Friedrich Hayek Is Making a Comeback (Russell Roberts)
WSJ, 6/28/10

U.S. Debt and the Greece Analogy (Greenspan)
WSJ, 6/17/10

The Value of Student Evaluations
Greg Mankiw Blog, 6/11/2010

Fifteen Economists Issue Crisis-Prevention Manual
NYT, 6/15, 2010

Government to the Economic Rescue
WSJ, 6/15/10

Politicizing the Fed (Congress seeks more control over the 12 regional banks.)
WSJ, 6/14/10

Pension Cuts Face Test in Colorado, Minnesota
WSJ, 6/11/10

Jobless Claims Jump, Leading Indicators Fall
WSJ, 5/20/10

Venezuela's Monetary Mayhem
WSJ, 5/17/10

Sewell Chan on Bernanke
Article   |   Interactive Bio   |   A Bernanke Bibliography

The Fed's Monetary Dissident (Hoenig)
WSJ, 5/15/10

What’s wrong with price gouging?
Boston Globe, 5/4/10

Did a Big Bet Help Trigger 'Black Swan' Stock Swoon?
WSJ, 5/11/10

A Primer on the Fed’s Swap Lines With Europe
WSJ, 5/10/10, See Related Paper

Bernanke, USC Commencement, On Happiness
WSJ, 5/9/2010

Fed Transcripts Stoke Debate on Rates
NYT, 5/4/2010

A Fannie Mae Political Reckoning
WSJ, 5/5/2010

What About Fan and Fred Reform?
WSJ, 5/04/10

U.S. Economy Expands 3.2%
WSJ, 4/30/2010

Obama to Nominate Three to Fed Board
WSJ, 4/29/10

Senators vs. Goldman
WSJ, 4/28/10

Earth Day - Paul Rubin
WSJ, 4/22/2010

Blinder on Financial Regulation
WSJ, 4/22/2010

Romer: ‘It’s Aggregate Demand, Stupid’
WSJ, 4/17/2010

Light At the End of the Bailout Tunnel
WSJ, 4/12/10

Beyond Bankruptcy And Bailouts (Sheila Bair)
WSJ, 4/4/2010

Employers Added Most Jobs in Three Years in March
WSJ, 4/2/2010

Factories Revive Economy
WSJ, 4/2/2010

Becker on ObamaCare
WSJ, 3/27/2010

Geely, Ford Ink Volvo Deal (Chinese buy Volvo)
WSJ, 3/28/2010

ObamaCare: What Democrats Voted For
WSJ, 3/25/2010

Phil Gramm on Health Care
WSJ, 3/25/2010

Fed Policy Outlook by Member (FedSpeak Highlights)
WSJ, 3/22/2010

Now, Can We Have Health-Care Reform?
WSJ, 3/24,2010

U.S. Urged to Keep Role in Mortgages (Geithner on Fannie and Freddie)
WSJ, 3/23/2010

Fed’s Yellen Plays Down Inflation Risks From Deficit
WSJ, 3/23/2010

Mankiw on Greenspan
(Blog)

Public Pension Deficits Are Worse Than You Think
WSJ, 3/21/2010

Factsheet: Senate Financial-Regulation Bill
WSJ, 3/15/10

For Banks, Change Is Coming
WSJ, 3/18/2010

Who is Janet Yellen?
WSJ, 3/17/2010

Hoenig on Hyperinflation (3/16/2010)

Fed to End Mortgage-Purchase Program
WSJ, 3/17/2010

Price Gap Puts Spice in Sugar-Quota Fight
WSJ, 3/16/2010

Health Care Proposals (House and Senate)
WSJ, 2/23/2010

Battle Inside Fed Rages Over Bank Regulation
WSJ, 3/8/2010

Portugal to Present New Budget-Cut Plan
WSJ, 3/8/2010

Japan Scrambles to Avoid Being the Next Greece
WSJ, 3/1/2010

Bernanke Says Deficit Action Is Key
WSJ, 2/26/2010

What a Disaster Looks Like
WSJ, 3/5/2010 (Noonan on Health Care)

Vice Chairman of Fed to Retire, Letting Obama Reshape Board
NYT, 3/2/10

Paul Krugman for Fed Vice Chairman?
WSJ, 3/2/10

ObamaCare at Ramming Speed (Price Controls)
WSJ 2/23/10

States Sink in Benefits Hole
WSJ, 2/18/10

What Happened to the 'Depression'?
WSJ, 8/31/09, Meltzer

Clients Flee Cerberus, Fallen Fund Titan
WSJ, 8/29/09

Recession Finally Hits Down on the Farm
WSJ, 8/28/09

All Clunkered Out
WSJ, 8/23/09

Medicine is Working, but U.S. Economy Isn't Healthy Yet
WSJ, 8/13/09 (Wessel)

The Next Fannie Mae
WSJ, 8/11/09

Productivity Leaped in 2nd Quarter
WSJ, 8/11/2009

Job Cuts Outpace GDP Fall
WSJ, 7/23/2009

Bernanke Sees Slow Recovery as Skittish Consumers Cut Back
WSJ, 7/23/2009

Signs of Upturn in Inventories Remain Elusive
WSJ, 7/15/2009

The Massachusetts Health Mess
WSJ, 7/11/2009

Google Targets Microsoft's Turf
WSJ, 7/9/2009

Public Pensions Cook the Books
WSJ, 7/6/2009

Minimum-Wage Increase Comes at a Bad Time for Weakened Job Market
WSJ, 7/6/2009

The EPA Silences a Climate Skeptic 
WSJ, 7/3/2009

New Evidence on the Foreclosure Crisis (Stan Liebowitz)
WSJ, 2/3/2009

Fuel Standards Are Killing GM
WSJ, 7/2/2009

Euro-Zone Unemployment Hits 9.5% (Sweden and ECB Actions)
WSJ, 7/2/2009

Fissures Appear at the New York Fed (Dudley Appointment)
WSJ, 7/2/2009

Parsing the Health Reform Arguments
WSJ, 7/1/2009

Wary Banks Hobble Toxic-Asset Plan
WSJ, 6/29/09

Americans Are Saving More, Amid Rising Confidence
WSJ, 6/27/09

Frugal Shoppers Drive Grocers Back to Basics
WSJ, 6/24

Loan Redos Get Tangled in Thicket of Red Tape
WSJ, 6/17/09

Fed's Conundrum on Treasury Purchases (Rates Up or Down?)
WSJ, 6/15/09

Federal Intervention Pits 'Gets' vs. 'Get-Nots'
WSJ, 6/15/09

Risk vs. Executive Reward
WSJ, 6/15/09

Are Incentives Smart Business or Race to the Bottom?
6/13/09

Creditors Cry Foul at Chrysler Precedent 
6/13/09

The Less Educated Take the Worst Hit
WSJ, 6/6/09

Fed’s Yellen Now Favors 2% Inflation
WSJ, 6/5/09

Bernanke Urges Deficit Reduction
WSJ, 6/4/09

Eight Ways to Radically Remake the World (Eichengreen)
WSJ 6/3/09

States' Budget Woes Are Poised to Worsen 
WSJ, 6/3/09

Americans Get Even Thriftier as Fears Persist

WSJ, 6/2/09

Ann Arbor and Warren: A Tale of Two Economies
WSJ, 5/26/09

How to Fix the Financial System
WSJ, 5/26/09

Don't Monetize the Debt
WSJ, 5/23/09

Moral Hazard and the Meltdown
WSJ, 5/23/09

Officials Weigh Having One Mortgage Regulator
WSJ, 5/20/2009

A Reshaped Fed Is Likely to Gain Some Powers, Lose Others 
WSJ, 5/18/2009

BIS Report: Central Banks May Be on Cusp of Change
WSJ, 5/17/2009

Fed Signals Its Intention to Stay the Course
WSJ, 4/30

Good Government and Animal Spirits - Akerloff and Shiller
WSJ, 4/23

Fed Paying Interest on Reserves: an Old Idea With a New Urgency
WSJ, 4/29

A Look Inside Fed’s Balance Sheet — 4/23/09 Update
WSJ, 4/23

Oil Shock: Did High Oil Prices Cause the Recession?
WSJ, 4/22

For Fed, Big Test Will Be When to Turn Off the Money Pump
WSJ, 4/20

Crazy-Quilt Jobless Programs Help Some More Than Others
WSJ, 4/20

Bernanke Defends Financial Innovation, Calls for Transparency
WSJ 4/17

Fed Balance Sheet Asset Holdings Expand to $2.19 Trillion
WSJ, 4/16

Tax Refunds Give Boost to Consumer Spending
WSJ, 4/15/2009

Consumer Prices Dipped in March
WSJ, 4/15/2009

Jobless Rate Hits 8.5%
4/15/2009

Weighing Furlough vs. Layoff
4/13/2009

U.S. Budget Deficit for 2009 Nears $1 Trillion
WSJ, 4/10/2009

Signs Point to Stabilizing Economy
WSJ, 4/10/2009

Fed's Kohn Warns on Deflation's Risks
WSJ, 4/3/2009

Preventing 'Too Big to Fail' Isn't Easy
WSJ, 4/1/2009

Global Slump Seen Deepening
WSJ, 4/1/2009

In the Exurbs, the American Dream Is Up for Rent
WSJ, 3/31/2009

Fed's Gamble: Buying Long Bonds
WSJ, 3/19/2009

Hedge Funds May Get AIG Cash
WSJ, 3/18
/2009

U.S. to Toughen Finance Rules
WSJ, 3/16/09

Charlie Evans on Modeling Financial Shocks in Macroeconomics
Speech, 9/19/08

Bernanke Outlines Steps to Avoid Future Crises
WSJ, 3/10/09

Ten Questions for Those Fixing the Financial Mess
WSJ, 3/10/09

Mortgage Bailout to Aid 1 in 9 U.S. Homeowners
WSJ, 3/5/2009

Obama, Fed See Economy in Bleak Light
WSJ, 3/4/09

Shoppers' New Frugality Hurts Business
WSJ, 3/3/09

Bernanke Testimony Before Senate
3/3/09

'Bad Bank' Funding Plan Starts to Get Fleshed Out 
WSJ, 3/3/09

After Rate Cuts, What Next?
WSJ, 3/3/09

GDP Shrank 6.2% in 4th Quarter, Deeper Than First Thought
WSJ, 2/27/09

Stimulus Bill Table
WSJ 2/17/09

No Dough in the Do-Re-Mi: Songwriters Take On the Recession
WSJ, 2/6/09

Recession Job Losses Surpass Three Million
WSJ, 2/6/09

Geithner: Speed Is Key to Recovery
WSJ, 2/4/09

Stimulus Brings Out City Wish Lists: Neon for Vegas, Harleys for Shreveport
WSJ, 2/4/09

Out of Office: Job Loss in the Age of Blogs and Twitter
WSJ, 2/3/09

After Keynesian Macroeconomics
Kevin Hoover, Library of Economics and Liberty

Avoiding Japan's Stimulus Miscues
WSJ, 2/3/09

In a Sole Revival, the Recession Gives Beleaguered Cobblers New Traction
WSJ, 2/3/09

How Government Prolonged the Depression
WSJ, 2/2/09

Economy Dives as Goods Pile Up
WSJ, 1/31/09

Crisis Fuels Backlash on Trade
WSJ, 1/31/09

Why Be a Nation of Mortgage Slaves?
WSJ, 1/31/09

GDP Drops at 3.8% Rate as Spending Falls 
WSJ, 1/30/09

A Layoff in the Smith Family Ripples Through Town
WSJ, 1/29/09

Stimulus Bill Near $900 Billion
WSJ, 1/28/09

 
Demint
versus Glickman and comments from Tabarrok on the Great Depression and current economic policies.

Geithner Announces Stricter Lobbying Rules for Bailout
1/27/09

Three Economic Crises In One
By Robert Samuelson (RealClearPolitics.com)

Britain Enters Recession 
WSJ, 1/23/09

Fed Likely to Keep Focus on Rates, Loans 
WSJ, 1/23/09

Political Interference Seen in Bank Bailout Decisions 
WSJ, 1/22/09

Bill May Not Stimulate Jobs Right Away 
WSJ, 1,22,09

Fed Grapples With a New Risk Reality 
WSJ, 1/20/09

Big Firms Deepen Job, Wage Cuts 
WSJ, 1/17/09

Inflation in 2008 Slowest Since 1954
WSJ, 1/16/09

Stimulus Package Unveiled 
WSJ, 1/16/09

Economists Are Divided on Best Mix of Stimulus
WSJ, 1/15/09

An 8.3% Deficit Is Plenty of Stimulus
WSJ, 1/14/09

Surge in Protectionism Threatens to Deepen World-Wide Crisis
WSJ, 1/12/09

Would You Pay $103,000 for This Arizona Fixer-Upper? 
WSJ, 1/3/09

The Weekend That Wall Street Died
WSJ, 12/29/08

Bernanke's Fed, Echoing FDR, Pursues Ideas and Action 
WSJ, 12/15/2008

Retail Sales, Wholesale Prices Fall 
WSJ, 12/12/08

Debt Shows First Drop as Slump Squeezes Consumers 
WSJ, 12/12/08

Fed Opens Cash Spigot to Overseas Credit Markets 
WSJ 10/14/2008