Getting Lehman Wrong a Second Time
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 18th, 2009 4:34 am by HL
Getting Lehman Wrong a Second Time
There are few economists who would defend the decision to allow Lehman Brothers to go bankrupt last September. Its collapse induced a worldwide panic that sent stock markets plummeting and caused credit to freeze up. In the subsequent months, the…
Juan Cole’s Book On The Muslim World
Unless you have a doctorate in Middle Eastern studies — and maybe even if you do — you will learn from Dr. Cole’s book. Essentially, Cole visits each area of Muslim-Western conflict and explains (1) how we, as Americans, probably…
